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DayZ Creator Takes Two Months Off To Climb Mount Everest

The lead designer of DayZ is going off to climb mountains. In a post today on the blog for the zombie survival game, which was originally built as a mod for the first-person shooter Arma 2, DayZ designer Dean “Rocket” Hall writes that he’s taking a two-month sabbatical to go climb Mount Everest in Nipal.


DayZ Creator: ‘I Am Angry About The War Z’

DayZ creator Dean Hall says he’s pissed about The War Z, the controversial zombie game that seems to rip off everything about DayZ, from theme to title.


DayZ Stand-Alone Release Rescheduled, ‘Closed Testing’ To Begin Soon

The folks behind DayZ say they want to rebuild the game’s whole engine before releasing a stand-alone version.


DayZ Creator Wants You To Help Free His Friends Held ‘Hostage’ In Greece

Dean “Rocket” Hall, creator of 2012 indie shock hit DayZ is pleading for fans to pressure Greek authorities, including the nation’s prime minister, to free two of his colleagues who remain jailed in the southern European nation.



DayZ Creator Ponders Free-To-Play Version

DayZ, the Arma II mod that places players in a tense, realistic survival against a zombie outbreak, is easily one of the most compelling PC games of the year. It’s amassed more than 400,000 users since its release in April. And if its current rate holds, it will surpass half a million sometime in the next week, the mod’s creator said yesterday.


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