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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.
PC PowerPlay said DayZ was the most important thing to happen to PC gaming in 2012. [34] Eurogamer's Stace Harman suggested that the mod's designer Dean Hall might be responsible for some of the most emotive stories to come from playing a video game. [2]
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 ...
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]
BattlEye is a proprietary anti-cheat software designed to detect players that hack or abusively use exploits in an online game.It was initially released as a third-party anti-cheat for Battlefield Vietnam in 2004 and has since been officially implemented in numerous video games, primarily shooter games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds, Arma 3, Destiny 2, War Thunder, and DayZ.
Dean "Rocket" Hall (born 14 May 1981) is a video game designer from New Zealand.He is best known for creating the zombie apocalypse PC game DayZ, which began as a mod and was later developed into its own game under the same title. [2]
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.
By 2011, Steam has approximately 50–70% of the market for downloadable PC games, with a userbase of about 40 million accounts. [17] [18] [19] In 2008, the website gog.com (formerly called Good Old Games) was started, specialized in the distribution of older, classic PC games.