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... Continue Reading 2 min
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... Continue Reading 2 min
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... Continue Reading 3 min
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 Continue Reading 2 min
DayZ creator Dean Hall on the gaming trend he wants to see: ‘cruelty and loss’ Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 30, 2015 3 min Dean Hall says that difficulty can create immersion, and he wants even more of it in future games. Continue Reading 3 min