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Wandering Monster Games Twitter account suddenly surfaces with cryptic Just Survive hints, possibly from Daybreak

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Back in July of 2019, Daybreak Games filed a number of curious trademarks that seemed to suggest that the MMO studios under its umbrella...
This was a thing.

Daybreak has acquired Cold Iron Studios and its Alien MMOFPS [Updated]

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We've updated the end of this post with the confirmation and press release; we've left the original reporting intact. For the last year, it seems...

The Game Archaeologist: Clone Wars Adventures, the Star Wars MMO everyone kinda forgot

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Whenever the topic -- the argument -- of Star Wars MMOs arises, the debate is usually between the merits of the sandboxy Star Wars...

H1Z1 launches Season 8, PlanetSide 2 continues tweaking its Colossus tank

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We'll call this the Daybreak news bundle: H1Z1 and PlanetSide 2 have both gotten some recent updates, so let's break it down. For H1Z1 players,...

Massively Overthinking: Deleting pieces of MMOs to save them

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Two ideas floated across my virtual desk in recent weeks, neither directly relating to MMORPGs, but they put the nugget of an idea in...
I know, you expected some EQN jokes.

Daybreak has apparently registered another substudio: Wandering Monster Games

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Back in 2019, we started covering Daybreak's moves to register trademarks and domain names and social media accounts for a bunch of groups that...
I guess? All right?

H1Z1 extends its PlayStation 4 season by two weeks while cycling in new Arcade challenges

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Maybe you can't remember which name it's going by at this point, but H1Z1 is still trucking along on the PlayStation 4, and it...
Trash pandas.

Daybreak has apparently closed its Z1 Battle Royale test server

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Hey there, who likes testing out new updates on the Z1 Battle Royale (also known as H1Z1 on PC and a few dozen other...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that were ahead of their time

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Timing is, as they say, everything. A good idea presented at the wrong time (and perhaps in the wrong way) might fizzle hard when...

H1Z1’s seventh season goes live on PS4 and brings back the classic Z2 map

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Ready for a new season of doing things in H1Z1? That's good because season seven is officially live on console, bringing with it a...

Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago

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In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...
oh nooooo

H1Z1 aka Z1 Battle Royale’s concurrency shot up 900% last month – here’s why

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If you happen to be one of those weirdos who is constantly thumbing through SteamCharts to see how games are doing (i.e., me), you...
No, this one... this one's certain.

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020

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This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...

GTAO, Apex Legends, Warframe, and H1Z1 are among PlayStation’s most-downloaded games of 2019

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One of the frustrations we always have when reporting on playerbase size in the MMO industry is that the console market is way more...
Ho, then when I say so, ho again.

The Massively Overpowered 2019 winter holiday MMO roundup

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The holidays are here! Well, most of them are. Some of them might not be. And as is tradition here at Massively Overpowered, we...

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions

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The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1’s sixth season features paltry rewards and no actual patch features

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Remember when Daybreak changed H1Z1's name yet again, presumably to distance the title's console version from the already floundering PC version (also known as Z1 Battle...

The Daily Grind: What are the odds that Daybreak can turn itself around?

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I've had... severe concerns about Daybreak Games over the last several years, and I'm sure that I am not alone in this. The multiple...

Daybreak confirms yesterday’s layoffs and ‘realignment of the company into separate franchise teams’

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Yesterday, we reported on the sad news that MMORPG company Daybreak Games had suffered yet another round of layoffs. As developers began weighing in...
This was a thing.

It looks like Daybreak’s been hit with yet another round of layoffs

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Former H1Z1 Technical Director and PlanetSide Arena dev Josh "Autenil" Kriegshauser posted a tweet this evening suggesting that Daybreak has once again undergone layoffs. "Sorry...

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