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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H1Z1 vows to test builds better in the future
H1Z1: King of the Kill issued a mea culpa to the community in a letter this past week, admitting that Daybreak has been rushing patches...
Daybreak appoints former EA and Zynga exec as new Senior VP of Games
MMO studio Daybreak has a new Senior VP of Games.
Gamesindustry.biz reports that Larry LaPierre, a 14-year veteran of Electronic Arts and former general manager...
Massively Overthinking: The future of Daybreak
This week's Massively Overthinking topic revolves around the EverQuest Next cancellation, of course. MOP Patron Roger sent us 11 (!) questions to pick from....
Global Chat: The death of EverQuest Next
There are some MMO industry events that, when they occur, spark a wildfire of blog posts across the community. This past week's announcement by...
One Shots: You got something on your face
There is a grand conspiracy among MMO developers and it is this: Every last one of them has entered into a blood pact to...
H1Z1: Just Survive introduces fresh zombies, ruleset tweaks, new lockbox
H1Z1: Just Survive's latest patch arrived this morning, complete with the new zombies held over from the delayed minipatch last week.
"When society collapsed and zombies...
H1Z1’s delayed patch arrives this week
The latest H1Z1 producer's letter has arrived, this one focusing on the Just Survive half of the now-split zombie survival sandbox. Daybreak begins by...
H1Z1 is ‘regrouping and refocusing’ after split
A new H1Z1 -- or "Hizzy," to its friends -- producer's letter shares that the team is still "regrouping and refocusing" following its digital...
Massively Overthinking: The new normal of early access MMORPGs
This week's topic comes from Massively OP reader Zadira.
"Daybreak has just passed it two-year anniversary for Landmark, and it still has its early access reward options for...
Global Chat: What is Daybreak thinking with H1Z1?
Daybreak's announcement earlier this month that it will be splitting H1Z1 into two games triggered a flood of responses from the MMO blogging community,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 52: Horror sloth!
Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert 's cash shop, H1Z1, Guild Wars 2, ArcheAge's laundry, Devilian, Grim Dawn, FFXIV, and TSW, with mailbag questions on voiceover localization.
Perfect Ten: What you need to know before you play an older MMORPG
I cut my teeth on MMOs with the launch of Final Fantasy XI in America. My roommate in college was interested in the game,...
H1Z1 pushes out patch and trailers for both of its new halves
Welcome to the glorious era of trying to keep track of dual H1Z1 games at any given time. Yesterday, Daybreak put out new one-minute trailers for...
H1Z1’s split is underway
We hope you didn't have urgent plans to play H1Z1 today because the game is splitting itself in half today. The maintenance is currently...
The Daily Grind: What untapped survival sandbox theme needs love?
Zombies. Dinosaurs. Other people. Pygmies, for some reason. They've been done. But plenty of themes haven't been tapped for survival sandboxes.
Joking in the Massively...
Interview: The Repopulation’s lead dev on its new engine and survival spin-off Fragmented
Following Above & Beyond Technologies' January announcement that it was solving The Repopulation's HeroEngine crisis by getting the heck away from HeroEngine, we spoke...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 50: Happy birthday MOP!
On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and Bree discuss MOP's first birthday, DUST 514, H1Z1, DCUO, Hearthstone, Anarchy Online, Diablo III, and TSW, with a mailbag question on the return of MMO subs.
The Daily Grind: Which survival sandbox are you most likely to play?
Over the weekend, Justin wrote about the deluge of major online multiplayer survival sandboxes hitting us lately. First there was DayZ and its early...
Betawatch: Black Desert launches at the start of March (February 5th, 2016)
Are you impatiently waiting to explore the blackest and most brutal of all conceivable deserts? Because Black Desert's launch date is closer than you might...
H1Z1 is splitting into two games, landing on consoles this summer
Daybreak has just announced that H1Z1 is splitting -- "evolving" is the precise word -- into two games.
H1Z1: Just Survive is a persistent, open-world...
