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Network expert Glenn Fiedler warns game programmers to fix game code vulnerabilities that AI can now find | exclusive

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 22, 2026
7 min

Glenn Fiedler, a seasoned network expert and a leader of game companies like Network Next, is warning game coders to fix the security bugs...

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Icarus breaks up the survival genre into smart session-based gameplay

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 24, 2021
2 min

Icarus is the new game from developer RocketWerkz, which DayZ creator Dean Hall founded in New Zealand following his time at Bohemia Interactive. The...

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Icarus is the new survival game from the creator of DayZ

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 13, 2020
2 min

Icarus is the latest survival game from Dean Hall, the creator of DayZ (an early milestone in the genre). His team at Rocketwerkz is...

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2 min

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VR developers begin sharing some of the ‘hard truths’ of virtual reality’s rough economics

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 10, 2016
3 min

It’s tough to make a virtual reality game, but it is even tougher to make a profitable virtual reality game. And now developers are...

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3 min

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Dean Hall on the lessons he’s learned from Day Z and losing your guts in Ion

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 17, 2015
2 min

Day Z developer dishes on the pitfalls of Early Access ... and losing your guts

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DayZ’s standalone version is a year old — developer Bohemia Interactive looks back with a video

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 16, 2014
2 min

Dean Hall is leaving the project, but Bohemia is still looking to complete a number of features on the game.

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2 min

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This tiny version of DayZ plays in your browser, and it’s pretty darn cute

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 21, 2014
2 min

Play MiniDayZ for free in your browser, and get mauled by cute 2D zombies.

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2 min

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DayZ still has two years of development ahead

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 10, 2014
2 min

Producer Brian Hicks stresses that frustrated fans are still playing "early development builds."

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2 min

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DayZ’s standalone sales surpass 2 million even though it’s ‘only’ an Early Access game

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 1, 2014
2 min

DayZ is still one of the top-selling games on Steam more than four months after its Early Access release.

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2 min

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DayZ creator plans to leave developer Bohemia Interactive

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 24, 2014
2 min

Dean Hall will leave Bohemia later this year to start a new studio in his home country of New Zealand.

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