No online game lasts forever. While some titles like For Honor find a large player base and tons of success as a result, others aren’t as lucky. The latest victim of an online server shutdown is Just Survive, the online survival game that spun off the survival component of H1Z1. At the time of this article’s
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H1Z1 has seen its fair share of updates this year so far, so it comes as no surprise to see even more starting to flood in given its success on the PS4. In the first 24 hours, 1.5M players came in to see what all the fuss was about and then 4.5 million players on PS4
The battle royale genre has become all the rage in the gaming community in the past year. For anyone that has been living under a rock for this time, the battle royale genre is focused around a multiplayer mode that drops a large number of players on a diminishing map, and the last player standing
It was a fairly big surprise that Daybreak Game Company’s PS4 beta of H1Z1: Battle Royale landed 1.5M players in its first 24 hours. However, much more shocking is the fact that the game is keeping up with that pace. In the first three days of launch, H1Z1: Battle Royale reported 4.5M players — and a surprise for those playing.
Battle royale-style games are experiencing a surge thanks to the likes of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Fortnite, and with the impending arrival of battle royale modes in AAA games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the phenomenon is only going to continue to grow into the phenomenon that it is at the moment. However, before that moment there was