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 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...
H1Z1 announces ‘crate bundles’ for the cash shop
Last week, Daybreak announced a monetization change for zombie survival box H1Z1 that almost slipped under our radar: The studio is adding bundles of...
Former BioWare game director becomes H1Z1 executive producer
Former BioWare game director Chris Wynn has landed at Daybreak helming zombie survival MMO H1Z1.
Wynn, who was credited as one of Mass Effect: Andromeda's...
H1Z1 zombies promise a screaming good time
H1Z1's developmental plans have long included adding a variety of zombies into the mix, from different looks to different skills. Female zombies were added...
H1Z1 shows off damage states and new zombie design
Visuals and animations can make or break an MMO for many, so it's important that the art team not be lollygagging around when there's...
The best Massively OP MMORPG streams of 2015
The number of games our wee little Stream Team covers in the span of a year is staggering. If you ever wanted to know...
Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO of 2015?
Yesterday, we announced our award for MMO of the Year -- it went to Final Fantasy XIV. But we deliberately expanded the category to...
Watch 100 naked H1Z1 players take on an elite strike team
As part of Daybreak's ongoing H1Z1 Showdown festivities, Twitch broadcaster CDNThe3rd recently hosted an amusing H1Z1 Battle Royale match that pitted a hardcore team...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG news stories of 2015
For as long as Massively Overpowered exists, this will be one of the most memorable years in our site's history. It was the year...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Trend of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO trend of 2015.
Last year, we chose sandbox and social gameplay as the awardee...
H1Z1 gets comfortable with food
What does H1Z1 and The Sims have in common? Other than being gruesome torture boxes for innocent video game characters, both games are focused...
Rokh offers a persistent multiplayer survival sandbox set on Mars
If H1Z1's zombies and ARK: Survival Evolved's dinos aren't your kind of survival sandbox, how about one set on the planet Mars?
Darewise Entertainment and...
H1Z1’s booby traps look fairly painful
Have you ever trapped an actual booby? It seems like that would be pretty difficult. I won't get into the hows and whys and...
Massively Overthinking: Counting the hits and misses of our 2015 predictions
Every year, we lodge our predictions for the next. Funny, strange, and deadly serious, these predictions are a glance back on the naïvetés of 2014 and...
Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for EverQuest franchise and Daybreak fans
It's that time of year again: when you realize half-way through your indulgence of in-game festivals that you totally forgot to go out and...
Betawatch: The Repopulation’s downtime risk is real (November 27, 2015)
If you wanted to point to an MMO doing everything right when it comes to Kickstarter, The Repopulation would be a fine pick. Unfortunately,...
The best MMO deals of Black Friday and Cyber Monday
You could give thanks on Thanksgiving, or gorge yourself on festive food alongside your bickering family members, but we say there's nothing like shopping from the comfort...
H1Z1 warns players of full server wipe happening tomorrow
Can an apocalypse happen after the apocalypse? That's the ironic state of affairs for H1Z1, which will be experiencing a full server wipe tomorrow...
The MOP Up: TERA’s creepy cat mounts (November 15, 2015)
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...
New H1Z1 game mode sends community into an uproar
The announcement of a new type of Battle Royale mode for H1Z1 called Green Dawn has the title's early access community in a tizzy...
