Official Site:Â H1Z1
Studio:Â SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date:Â January 15, 2015 (Early Access)
Genre: It’s a Battle Royale game now.
Business Model:Â B2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Former H1Z1 developers join John Smedley’s Pixelmage Games
John Smedley's Pixelmage Games has gotten a few devs richer at H1Z1's expense. Massively OP reader Kinya pointed us to the Twitter feeds of...
Daybreak is cracking down on cheating, bad connections in H1Z1
In a letter to H1Z1: King of the Kill players Friday, Daybreak reminded players that third-party apps and programs that impact the game code to...
The Soapbox: Calling an MMO launch a launch
It's launch.
Can we collectively accept that? Marketing, developers, and players alike? Launch is launch. When your game launches, it has launched. If I can...
H1Z1 lets you harvest zombie blood
We know what you're thinking: "Zombie survival games are all well and good, but they don't really go far enough in allowing me to...
H1Z1: King of the Kill got a major combat patch today
Daybreak's Garrett Fern is blessed with an epic RPG name. He's also the H1Z1 combat and gameplay designer on deck to tell King of...
NBA champion Rick Fox partners with Daybreak’s H1Z1 for e-sport initiative
Multitime NBA champion Rick Fox has his sights set on H1Z1 as the next big e-sports field, so much so that he has partnered up...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMORPGs of E3 2016
With E3 taking up so much head-space this week, we thought it only right to discuss how MMOs in particular fared at the convention....
Survival sandbox Lifeless demos PvP, weapons, and grouping
Move over, H1Z1: Green Man Gaming, the company behind medieval survival sandbox The Black Death, is also working on Lifeless, a modern survival sandbox......
Check out H1Z1: King of the Kill’s Ignition trailer
Daybreak's H1Z1 King of the Kill version saw the introduction of a new game mode with its latest patch: Ignition.
"Ignition is a high-intensity, frenzied...
H1Z1 preps Ignition mode for tomorrow, shows off its new map
Heady times are upon H1Z1, especially if you're playing the PvP version (that's King of the Kill, in case you've lost track). The good...
H1Z1: Just Survive offers more zombies with more responsive demeanors
You're surrounded by zombies on all sides, but they don't see you yet. You're sneaking through the abandoned stalls of a grocery store. Then,...
Skirmishes arrive in H1Z1: King of the Kill
Those into the PvP scene in H1Z1 might want to check out King of the Kill this weekend. Daybreak announced that its activated a...
H1Z1: Just Survive outlines upcoming experimental servers and improvements
Your goal in H1Z1: Just Survive is stated right there in the title, but survival is pretty easy when you have a well-fortified base...
Daybreak exec on early access, e-sports, VR, EverQuest Next, and the future of EverQuest
GamesIndustry.biz has published a lengthy interview with Daybreak chief publishing officer Laura Naviaux Sturr on the evolution of the MMORPG studio over the last year....
H1Z1 is building an improved eight-square-kilometer map
Don't get too comfortable with the current zone layout in either version of H1Z1. A new map, code-named "Z2," is currently in development and...
The MOP Up: ARK’s free PvP version goes wide (April 17, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
H1Z1: King of the Kill adjustments highlight beta process
A new H1Z1: King of the Kill producer's letter is a prime example of how the testing period of development often goes. Like mechanics...
Daybreak says it’s ‘cracked the dupe bug’ plaguing H1Z1: Just Survive
Daybreak updated the H1Z1: Just Survive website this morning with abbreviated notes for the patch currently on the test server. "We cracked the dupe...
Leaderboard: Which half of H1Z1 are you playing?
One of the pranks we considered pulling for April Fools' Day was a split of Massively OP into two halves: Massively, the survival game,...
After canning EverQuest Next, Daybreak is hiring for new title
Daybreak: LF15M.
Is Daybreak dying? Maybe not, at least in light of a recent jobs posting that would see the studio grow from its current...
