{"id":61066,"date":"2013-12-18T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61066"},"modified":"2013-12-18T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T10:21:12","slug":"dayz-launches-on-steam-lures-hordes-of-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61066-dayz-launches-on-steam-lures-hordes-of-players","title":{"rendered":"DayZ launches on Steam, lures hordes of players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugely popular ARMA 2 mod, DayZ has launched as a standalone game on Steam, although it’s only in early access alpha form at the moment – DayZ on Steam.<\/a><\/p>\n

Priced at $29.99 (\u00b1R310), after one day of availability, DayZ has attracted over 172,500 zombie hunting survivalists, with a peak of 142,403 online.<\/p>\n

DayZ Standalone is a game being developed by Bohemia Interactive along with Dean \u201cRocket\u201d Hall, the creator of the award winning mod DayZ.<\/p>\n

Since the game is in alpha at the moment, be aware that your early access purchase will probably translate into many frustrations as the team gets the game up to spec for full release.<\/p>\n

In addition to enhancements, there is also a new loot spawn system that can generate loot in some interesting nooks and crannies, and require players to really look and traverse around to gather the resources they need.<\/p>\n

There are new locations in the game, particularly an island that featured in ARMA 2, which was highly requested by the community.<\/p>\n

The DayZ standalone will be getting weekly content updates, including clothing and weapon items.<\/p>\n

\"DayZ<\/a>

DayZ Alpha screen<\/p><\/div>\n

More on DayZ<\/h3>\n

DayZ \u2013 10 minutes of gameplay<\/strong><\/p>\n

Day Z standalone video shows new features<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Day Z creator to climb Mount Everest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Day Z mod now installable through Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

DayZ standalone getting weekly content<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

DayZ standalone first look<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone’s favourite zombie-survival-shooter mod is now a standalone game attracting loads of players<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":50207,"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],"tags":[2286,5539,21],"class_list":["post-61066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bohemia-interactive","tag-dayz","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61066","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61068,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61066\/revisions\/61068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}