While a little bit smaller than some of the previous patches, DayZ's Update 1.08 has now arrived with a bunch of new additions and tweaks. It brings with it a brand new hunting rifle by the name of Sporter 22, a whole host of improvements to the base building and destruction mechanics, as well

If you're still curious about DayZ, or if you simply want to see how things have evolved since the early days of the mod, you might be glad to hear that it's going to be free to try out for the next couple of days. To be more specific, from 10am PST on May 21st until 10am PST on May 25th DayZ

If you're curious about DayZ and you've somehow managed to avoid giving it a try all these years, consider yourself quite lucky. In celebration of the newly released Update 1.07, DayZ will be entirely free to try out from February 13-17. All you need to do is ...

After nearly five years in development, DayZ has finally transitioned from Alpha to Beta back in November. So if you expected the same sort of story to play out during its journey from Beta to full release,

After nearly 5 years in development, DayZ has just recently transitioned to Beta alongside a massive patch. Now, if you're expecting the same pattern to repeat for DayZ's journey to full release, I'm afraid

[Update]: DayZ 1.0 will be officially released this December 13th!

Back when dinosaurs roamed the land and zombie games were as numerous as the undead hordes themselves,

After months and months of development the new Direct X 11 renderer has arrived to DayZ, though currently only through the experimental 0.60 update.

While its quite possible you will experience some issues and bugs

At this point I'm fairly certain that even people who don't play or care about DayZ know full well how it has some terrifying performance issues when visiting large inhabited areas.

These problems might soon become a thing of the past, however, as the recent Dev Log showcased absolutely

I don't think its much of a secret at this point that DayZ's development has been a bit of a letdown, to put things lightly. Even after years in Early Access the standalone version is more or less on par with the mod and nowhere near the lofty promises it made when it first