{"id":41000,"date":"2012-07-09T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T11:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=41000"},"modified":"2012-07-09T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T11:56:25","slug":"dayz-retail-version-a-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/41000-dayz-retail-version-a-certainty","title":{"rendered":"DayZ retail version &#8220;a certainty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular PC mods in recent times is DayZ.<\/p>\n<p>The mod adds a zombie-survival mode to the military shooter ArmA II, and has ignited the game&#8217;s sales since the mod was released.<\/p>\n<p>DayZ has created such a demand that it&#8217;s looking to get it&#8217;s own full retail release, so that everyone can get in on the zombie-killing action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s a certainty,\u201d said Dean Hall, the creator of the mod. \u201cEither someone else or myself will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hall added: \u201cIt\u2019s proven it\u2019s got legs, it\u2019s incredibly able to make a heap of money, so I think yep, it\u2019s a certainty. It\u2019s just a question of when and by who.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hall works at ArmA II&#8217;s studio Bohemia Interactive, although conceptualised the DayZ mod while in the army, thinking that most games fail to capture the emotional strain of survival on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/beefjack.com\/news\/dayz-standalone-retail-version-a-certainty-says-developer\/\" target=\"_blank\">BeefJack<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39367-zombiu-one-of-e3s-standout-titles.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ZombiU \u2013 one of E3\u2032s standout titles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40897-activision-to-release-walking-dead-fps.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Activision to release Walking Dead FPS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40476-zombie-hq-launches-on-ios-for-free.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zombie HQ launches on iOS for free<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40882-sniper-ghost-warrior-2-delayed.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 delayed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArmA II mod&#8217;s popularity warrents a retail version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":41002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,2188,5541,5540,5466,5542,5539],"class_list":["post-41000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-arma-2","tag-arma-2-mod","tag-arma-ii","tag-day-z","tag-day-z-zombie-game","tag-dayz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41003,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41000\/revisions\/41003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}