DayZ Alpha has been available for early adopters since December 16th from Steam for 23.99 Euro. Please be aware that our Early Access offer is a representation of our core pillars, and the framework we have created around them. It is a work in progress and therefore contains a variety of bugs. We strongly advise you not to buy and play the game at this stage unless you clearly understand what Early Access means and are interested in participating in the ongoing development cycle.

It has been a very busy week for the DayZ team:

three DayZ patches released

over 400.000 survivors have entered Chernarus

over 40.000 concurrent users pushed DayZ Alpha servers to their limits

Dean “Rocket” Hall posted more details about our immediate future plans

The second week will be much calmer. Most of the team members are going to take a well-deserved vacation week with their families, so please be patient with us for the much slower pace in the coming two weeks. Thanks to all for the incredible support and interest in the game so far. 2014 is going to be an exciting year for DayZ. Merry Christmas.