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DayZ is a multiplayer only survival video game developed and published by Bohemia Interactive. It is the standalone game based on the mod of the same name for Arma 2 . Following a five-year-long early access period for Windows, the game was officially released in December 2018, and was released for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2019.
If a game was released on multiple platforms, the sales figures list are only for PC sales. This list is not comprehensive because sales figures are not always publicly available. Subscription figures for massively multiplayer online games such as Flight Simulator or Lineage and number of accounts from free-to-play games such as Hearthstone are ...
PC Gamer gave DayZ the "Mod of the Year" 2012 award, calling it "one of the least-forgiving and most intimidating games of the year." [38] Good Game gave DayZ the "Quiet Achiever" award for 2012. [39] PC PowerPlay gave DayZ the "Game of the Year 2012" and named it number five on their list of top 100 games of all time. [34]
Bohemia Interactive founder Marek Španěl aspired to become a game developer in the 1980s, after his brother was convinced to buy a TI-99/4A computer. Španěl first worked as a salesman for a game distribution company and made a 3D hovercraft simulator Gravon: Real Virtuality for Atari Falcon in 1995, which sold 400 copies only. [5]
In the video game industry, AAA (Triple-A) is a buzzword used to classify video games produced or distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games. [1]
In early 2012, a mod was released for Arma 2 and Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, called DayZ. The mod centers around zombies and features a medical system. It met with enormous success in the Arma community and has had a crossover into the mainstream gaming scene, boosting Arma 2's sales drastically.
Facepunch Studios was founded by Garry Newman in June 2004 for the forthcoming release of Facewound.Newman and his collaborators intended to use this studio name instead of one of their personal names to appear more professional.
A personal computer game, also known as a computer game [a] or abbreviated PC game, is a video game played on a personal computer (PC). The term PC game has been popularly used since the 1990s referring specifically to games on " Wintel " ( Microsoft Windows software/ Intel hardware) which has dominated the computer industry since.