PC Gaming Weekly: Survival evolved
I’ve been playing Citadel: Forged with Fire this week. It’s like DayZ or Ark: Survival Evolved, but in Citadel, you’re a wizard. You still...
Inside the company behind sensation Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds
Presented by Intel Rapidly becoming — if not already — a phenomenon, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has captured imaginations and, with its constantly evolving world, is...
H1Z1: King of the Kill’s active player count has grown 1,000% since September
Publisher Daybreak Games’ competitive zombie survival shooter has fought its way back to the top of Steam. H1Z1: King of the Kill’s number of...
Amazon bets big on gaming with high-profile hires
Amazon clearly has ambitions in the high end of the game business. Today, it announced that Command & Conquer veteran Louis Castle has become...
Cyberattack causes ‘LaunchPad could not establish connection’ error in H1Z1
You’re probably gonna have trouble killing the zombies this evening, and that’s not because they’re already dead. H1Z1, DC Universe Online, and other games...
Twitch’s most-streamed games of August show the power of zombies & shooters
Only a fraction of the games released turn into hits. And only a small percentage of those hits establish a community large enough to...
Daybreak Game Company’s John Smedley steps down as chief executive officer
Just a few weeks after Lizard Squad took down Daybreak servers, one of the pioneers of massively multiplayer online games and the free-to-play strategy on home consoles is leaving his company.
Eight dollar H1Z1 lumbers into GMG’s 2015 Summer Sale
GMG's summer sale kicks off with zombie themed games on sale for up to 80% off.
Lizard Squad lashes out after Daybreak Games CEO threatens cyberattacker group
Yesterday, the chief executive officer of publisher Daybreak Games made headlines for threatening a group of cyberattackers. Today, the company’s website and games are experiencing outages.
DayZ is starting to lose the survival-sim war
Less than 9,000 players are now logging in at peak times, behind Rust and H1Z1.