Just Survive, Daybreak Games’s online survival game, is shutting down its servers on October 24, 2018. In a post announcing the shutdown, the team explains that “the current population of the game makes it untenable to maintain.”
H1Z1 Battle Royale Community Split Over Third Person Aiming Glitch
A large portion of the H1Z1 Battle Royale community on PS4 is split over a third person aiming glitch. Players appear split between complaining about or supporting the glitch. While there are other bugs in H1Z1, many players believe this glitch in particular is unfair.
H1Z1 On PS4 Is A Great Alternative To Fortnite
I’ve played some Fortnite matches alone and with friends, but the game never it clicks with me. I don’t like building or dealing with expert builders. So I was excited to try out the previously PC only H1Z1, which recently started an open beta on PS4. While the basic setup of H1Z1 is similar to Fortnite, playing it…
One Video Game Company Has Murky Ties To Trump’s Lawyer And Russian Payments
Robert Mueller’s investigation of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken all sorts of strange turns over the past year and a half, but this might be one of the strangest: It turns out that Trump’s lawyer has a circuitous connection to the video game company behind games like H1Z1 and Everquest.
H1Z1 Dev Leaves Cheats On While Streaming In Apparent Accident
Streaming a game you’re working can be an awesome form of community outreach. Unfortunately, on a recent personal stream, one H1Z1 developer leapt into the game with some of their special powers still on.
Fans Won't Stop Playing One Of Steam's Most Popular Games, Even Though They Claim To Hate It
H1Z1: King of the Kill is one of the most popular games on Steam, despite the fact that thousands of fans claim to hate it. Now that a similar game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has appeared, many say they’re going to jump ship for good—and this time, they really, really mean it. Maybe.
Steam's Latest Hit Is A More Tactical, Less Chaotic Battle Royale Game
Huddled beneath the stairwell, I could hear rain pounding outside as my heart beat its way out of my chest. It was nearly pitch-black inside the radio tower, and somebody else was in there with me. I knew I had only one chance. My trap set, all I could do was wait, trusty frying pan in hand.
H1Z1 Is Splitting Into Two Games
Online zombie game H1Z1, one of the many survival games that’s been on Steam Early Access for what feels like decades now, is splitting into two games later this month, developer Daybreak said today.
Daybreak (H1Z1, Everquest) CEO John Smedley, last seen going after DDOS kids on Twitter, has stepped down from his position.
Daybreak Games Hit By DDoS After CEO Threatens Lizard Squad Hacker
If you had trouble signing into online games like PlanetSide 2 or H1Z1 over the past day or two, you can blame whoever’s going after their servers.
H1Z1 Cheaters Publicly Apologizing For Chance To Get Unbanned
23,837 players were banned on Monday for cheating in H1Z1. Some players want to come back, but there’s a price tag for grace: you have to publicly admit you cheated and apologize.
Survival Games Have Gotten A Bit... Predictable
Alternate headline: "Every PC Game Released In The Year 2015."
The Horror: Behind the Scenes of Launching H1Z1
Launching a game is hard. So what happens when you release a high-profile title with the world watching and things break? Lots of things. Worse, it takes at least a day to fix stuff when a retweet can happen in seconds. Let’s talk to H1Z1’s senior game designer Jimmy Whisenhunt.
Horde Of H1Z1 Players Drops Weapons In Protest Against Violence
The scene: a battle royale (that is, last man standing) match in zombie survival MMO H1Z1. The goal: to convince a teeming crowd of bloodthirsty players to drop their weapons and survive encroaching toxic clouds together, hand-in-hand. The result: improbable success! Well, mostly.
H1Z1 Players Have Created An Actual Fight Club
You know the first rule of fight club, don't you? Well, these H1Z1 players broke it a bunch. But in the process, they herded other hapless players into a tooth-and-nail brawl to the death, and I'd like to think that having a fight club at all is more important than remembering to not talk about it.
