DayZ has become the latest example of community-driven game design and its popularity continues to increase ever since it was recently announced that the ARMA 2 mod would become a standalone game.

There are two versions of DayZ: a MOD version (created using ARMA II: Combined Operations) and a Standalone version created by the same DayZDevTeam as well as by Bohemia Interactive. The two versions ...

Bored of Chernarus? The good news is that there are other DayZ maps for players to hunt and kill zombies and bandits on. If you're still playing on the original, then you're missing out. Ask yourself: ...

A new heat map has been released to show the most heavily populated parts of the huge open world in DayZ , the zombie survival mod (and soon-to-be standalone game) built in the Arma 2 engine. The ...

If XCOM reminded us of the value of loss in 2012, DayZ was a valuable lesson in hardship. The Arma 2 mod was one of the least-forgiving and most intimidating games of the year. It was a shooter that ...

Bohemia Interactive is determined to make the standalone release of DayZ much more than just a cash-in on the hit Arma mod. By the time it’s finally released (“when it’s done,” the studio insists), ...

DayZ creator Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall has revealed that the standalone version of his ArmA II mod will not support mods at launch, as well as a new batch of features and the possibility of a console version ...

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The original DayZ mod for Arma 2 took the PC gaming world by storm back in the early days of 2012. The emergent gameplay and ratcheting tension help create an entire genre of games and eventually ...

For those who have a poor sense of awareness or simply don’t get out much, we are living in the year 2017. Hearing about some thing or place being recreated in Minecraft is certainly not the novelty ...

I've been playing the MineZ public beta, the DayZ inspired, server-side Minecraft mod that chucks 150 players into a zombie-infested open world and expects them all to survive and play nice together.