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State of Decay 2 rejects the battle royale genre for being already mined out

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Sick of battle royale? Yeah, it hit saturation levels in a hurry. Undead Labs is over the craze too, which might sound funny given...

Daybreak: Here’s where the EverQuest franchise, DCUO, PlanetSide 2, H1Z1, and Just Survive stand

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Not counting Standing Stone's titles, Daybreak currently develops and publishes six of its once massive stable of MMOs: Both EverQuests, DC Universe Online, PlanetSide...
Nope!

Daybreak has now been hit with layoffs [Confirmed]

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Daybreak has now confirmed the layoffs, and we've got lots more information from our own sources - see below for updates and context. Multiple game...
Hate the player, not the game! It's not the player's fault that they're in the game as it is.

Leaderboard: Does the Daybreak fiasco affect whether you play its MMOs?

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Over the last couple of days, we've been covering the Daybreak scandal - specifically, how concerns over the impact of government sanctions on Daybreak's...
Stop boring everybody.

H1Z1 is finally coming to PlayStation 4

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Did you think slipping player numbers were going to do in the battle royale grand-daddy? Nope. Free-to-play must have been a big boost, as...

H1Z1 patch optimizes client and tamps down on overenthusiastic celebrants

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For those playing the now-free H1Z1 battle royale, a small Thursday patch might hold a few changes to improve your game experience. It seems as...

Dead Rivals infects mobile with its zombie MMOARPG

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Need a quick zombie fix on your mobile device but still crave the MMORPG approach? Gameloft, no stranger to whipping up knockoffs of hit...
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games

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Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...

DayZ to reboot with a new game engine but still won’t leave early access

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Is it weird that it seems so long ago that DayZ was the "it" survival arena game for streamers? How quickly we've moved on,...

PAX East 2018: State of Decay 2 debuts a gory gameplay trailer

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Before we had zombies to beat up without remorse in games, what did we used to kill? White dots and angry little mushrooms, mostly....

Amazon Game Studios picks up former Daybreak CM Greg Henninger

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Daybreak's loss is Amazon's gain -- again. Former H1Z1 Community Manager Greg Henninger revealed that he has jumped ship from Daybreak over to Amazon Games...

Crowfall’s necromancy system would like to place dibs on your body

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In most MMOs, when you hear the word "necromancy," you instantly think of the Coolest Class Ever. One that calls forth zombies, binds skeletons...

Dead Man’s Country throws you into the teeth of the American west

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Have a pioneering spirit and wouldn't mind stepping back in time to see how you'd do on the frontier in the late 1800s? Then...

H1Z1 adds duos to auto royale, sees playerbase surge since free-to-play

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It may be way down in players since last summer's peak, but Daybreak isn't giving up on H1Z1. The newly rebranded, newly launched, and...

The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood pandemic

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It began with an exploitable glitch. It exploded into an uncontained nightmare of death. It established a meme as strong as Leeroy Jenkins. It...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 161: Project power

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Justin and Bree discuss RIFT Prime, Trove, Project C, Project Gorgon, H1Z1, The Division 2, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on mimicking Minecraft's business model and playing the good stuff while you still can.
IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREET

Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?

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This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...

Check out 25 minutes of State of Decay 2’s co-op

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It may not be as massively as some might have liked, but State of Decay 2's co-op mode opens up the franchise to multiplayer...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1 is finally going free-to-play

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Remember way back in the long, long ago, before H1Z1 hit early access, split, reconstituted, renamed, didn't launch, aborted a console port, and all...

State of Decay 2 to gnaw lightly on your wallet this May

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The multiplayer sequel to the 4.5 million-copies-sold zombie survival game State of Decay finally has a release date and a price. The good news?...

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