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Techland, the studio responsible for Dead Island, has announced a new game currently entitled Project Hell. The company’s blog explains over several posts that the title is a spinoff of Dead Island originating as an ‘internal weapon mod’ made by a Techland staffer. Thoughts of DayZ immediately sweep in. The …
Read More »Black Mesa Source gets September release date
A release date for the long-awaited Black Mesa Source has finally been confirmed. It will be made available to download on September 14th. The fan-made remake of 1998 classic Half-Life is a frame-by-frame reconditioning” that uses Valve’s more modern Source engine to give the game a visual lift. The release …
Read More »The biggest selling game of the summer? A free mod called DayZ
DayZ is more than just another zombie game. There are no objective markers and scores don’t matter: it’s all about survival. There is no price tag, beyond the cost of DayZ’s 2009 parent game Arma II. And there is no stopping it. While Dead Island and Resident Evil sales tail …
Read More »ArmA II mod DayZ becomes standalone game
Bohemia Interactive developing new title with Dean Hall named as project lead
Read More »Day Z officially goes standalone, backed by Bohemia
Indie PC hit Day Z is officially being developed into a standalone tite. Arma II creators Bohemia Interactive are funding the venture, though Day Z creator Dean Hall has been hired as project lead. This is thefairy-tale outcome for a mod that many would have said impossible four months ago,” …
Read More »ArmA II mod DayZ hits 1m unique players
More than 1,200 years of game time accumulated by users
Read More »DayZ approaches 1m registered users as creator talks standalone
ArmA II’s mod monster DayZ is rapidly closing in on 1m registered users, so where does it go from here? Creator Dean Hall touched on a variety of topics regarding his smash hit with VG247, including what has to happen for the title to go standalone and the possibility of …
Read More »Modding ideal for aspiring devs, says DayZ creator
Building over an existing title and tech can teach programmers more than diving straight into C++, claims Hall
Read More »Half-Life Source mod development ‘was harrowing’
Trying to meet the original launch date for the title 'was ultimately futile', says project lead
Read More »Get a taste of GTA V
Grand Theft Auto V may have been disappointingly missing in action at this year’s E3, but a new fan mod for GTA IV has hinted at the graphical strides the next incarnation of the series could make. The patch, called iCEnhancer 1.2 adds a number of shader and lighting effects …
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