DayZ's developers say that the massively influential survival game is finally leaving early access "next year." That will also mean a console version sometime next year, if all goes according to plan. Personally, I'm expecting it to add a battle royale mode shortly after, which, in DayZ time, means the year 2020.

In Battlegrounds, players engage in a battle royale where they must scavenge weapons and gear, sneaking around to kill each other until only one of them is left standing. A new community-created game mode, popular with streamers, pits one squad against countless ravenous zombies for that turns the tactical shooter into a full- blown horror game.

In a lengthy Reddit post yesterday, DayZ creator and Out of Ammo developer Dean Hall sounded off on the "terrible assumptions" he sees VR enthusiasts making about subsidised development deals and VR development in general. Virtual reality is not yet profitable, he says, and developers should have the right to take any help they can get.

Valve recently overhauled Steam's review system, putting a larger focus on recent perspectives. The move made sense. Games are no longer static works. They constantly evolve thanks to updates and programs like Early Access. The system is, by and large, very useful, providing percentages that give narrow and wide snapshots of games. But numbers only tell part of the story.

While we wait for Vulkan and DirectX 12 to gather momentum, developers are still tweaking the knobs of DirectX 11. The team behind DayZ for example are currently putting the finishing touches on the game's "Enfusion" rendering engine, which is powered by older API.

If you've ever used the website feedback tracker systems for DayZ or ArmA 3, heads up: developers Bohemia Interactive have just announced a potential security breach, and they've taken the systems offline as a result.

Another day, another hacked forum. Bohemia Interactive is the latest victim, with the official DayZ boards falling to unidentified internet vandals.

Video: DayZ social experiments continue to delight and amaze me.

It'll be touch and go -- it always is with DayZ -- but in the latest blog post, the developers behind the standalone version of DayZ have delivered another info dump ahead of the massive hive and server storage wipe that will happen once 0.59 is rolled out.

Whether its a quality issue, or people are getting tired of its particular brand of zombie survival, DayZ appears to have seen a sharp, rapid drop in its player base over the last few months.

Alternate headline: "Every PC Game Released In The Year 2015."

On today's Highlight Reel we have space flight in DayZ, nail-biting Mario Kart races, confused cops, bad cabbies and more!

Sixteen teams of two go in. Only one team survives. This is Survivor GameZ, a "last man-standing" deathmatch tournament that happens in DayZ every month.

H1Z1, the DayZ-like zombie MMO by Sony, has been at the top of the Steam charts since release. But what's it all about?

Today on Highlight Reel we have exploding Battlefield motorcycles, new ways to kill enemies in Far Cry 4, chill mountain hovering glitches in GTA V and grenade throws in Destiny and DayZ.

DayZ is a game about the zombie apocalypse, survival and permadeath. It is also -- thanks to players -- about trolling, griefing and the truest, douchiest darkness of the human heart. Bitter enemies become the truest of friends... until it stops being convenient.

Oh hey, time to spend another few days trying to get this tune out of my head. Or weeks. Yeah, weeks.

While DayZ itself will be turning three years old in about a month (the ARMA 2 mod came out in January 2012), its standalone release celebrated its first birthday just yesterday. To honour the anniversary, the dev team released a retrospective video and updated DayZ's development roadmap for 2015.

Today's Highlight Reel shines the spotlight on enemies who show up out of nowhere, bad guys with invincible leg anatomy and a weirder-than-normal GTA V car-jacking.