Five years on, DayZ finally hits beta

Ageing online survival game DayZ is finally launching a beta build, nearly five years after it first arrived as a standalone release. Up until now, DayZ has only been available in a version labelled as an Early Access alpha. Development progress has been slow, to put it lightly. But a fresh update from Bohemia Interactive lead producer Eugen Harton has laid out an ambitious plan - to freeze the deployment of new items and focus on "bugfixing, polishing and balancing" to get the game ready for a full version 1.0 release before the year's end.
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