Techland’s Dying Light, an open world zombie survival horror title which slowly evolved into a Diablo loot grind, is three years old now. Having released on January 27th 2015, it sold a whopping 13 million units and still maintains a healthy life with over 500,000 players every week.

Producer Tymon Smektała spoke about the game’s long life, “Dying Light’s longevity is a result of the studio’s hard work, combined with the efforts of our community, who have shown unparalleled love for the game and spent countless hours in Harran. We are nothing but thankful for this exceptional commitment and players’ eagerness to provide us with constructive feedback that helped us make a better game.”

To celebrate the game and its community, the developer has announced weekly giveaways on Steam and Gemly. Furthermore, the game will be discounted by 67 percent on all platforms. Those who already own the game will see a new community bounty called Undying Love going live along with the third free content drop later this month.

Though Dying Light had a rocky start, free updates and quality of life improvements helped elevate it. It also received a significant new expansion with The Following and the Enhanced Edition, the latter bringing a Diablo 3-style Paragon system of sorts to activities.

Techland’s Dying Light did very well on release and despite the game’s problems, it’s received a great amount of support in the form of free DLCs, a revamped end-game system and a meaty expansion called The Following. The developer had announced that it would be releasing free DLC for the open world zombie survival title in the next 12 months and it’s provided a few teases as to what they will contain.

To start with, we have the upcoming “DLC #0” which will add some new enemies. This update isn’t part of the 10 free DLCs but will arrive soon and offer a taste of what’s to come. Producer Tymon Smektala notes that the upcoming free DLC will bring new in-game events, new enemies and “much, much more”. Which has us excited of course.

Of course, the reason why Techland is supporting the game is simple – it still attracts 500,000 active users each week. When you consider the game is three years old, that’s no small feat. Mods, constant update, co-op and much more have obviously helped in this regard.

Techland’s Dying Light isn’t out of the current gen picture just yet. A new patch will be going live at 10 AM PST/7 PM CET that adds four new community-made maps. Check out the trailer below for more information on them.

What can you expect? There’s Under the City, a “choice-based horror story”; Climb Down, an arcade-like experience that will test your parkouring (if it’s anything like The Following’s opening, we’re already done); The Hunter, a quest that takes you deep into a forest occupied by the Horde; and TeeVee, a nightmare best experienced in the dark. You know, like most nightmares usually are. The patch will also add stability improvements, fixes and more to the core experience.

Dying Light was recently updated with the Enhanced Edition and received a new expansion in The Following which brings a meaty new story, side-missions and much more. Bounties are also live, providing an incentive to go zombie-killing on a whim. What are your thoughts on the community content? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for more information.

Come February 9th and you won’t be finding Dying Light. The game isn’t disappearing from retail. Instead, it will be replaced by Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition, the definitive version of Dying Light which brings graphical enhancements to the base along with a bevy of new features. This includes The Following expansion which brings a new area, vehicles, weapons and missions to the experience.

Techland stated that, “The launch of Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition also means that the original version is going to be increasingly harder to come by.

“Digitally, it’ll disappear instantly on February 9th. As for retail, we will cease shipping additional copies, so it will remain available only as long as stocks last. If you plan to grab your copy of the vanilla Dying Light at a reduced price, or want the original box for your collection, now is the best time to do it.”

Though US players will get digital versions of the Enhanced Edition from February 9th onwards, European players will need to wait until February 12th for the same. Will you be picking it up? Let us know in the comments.

Still on the fence about Dying Light: The Following, the expansion to Techland’s open world survival horror? You’re in luck – Arekkz Gaming has 42 minutes of gameplay footage to showcase the wonders of The Following. And that includes chopping down zombies with a machete.

Dying Light: The Following will offer a storyline progression of sorts when Kyle Crane discovers a map leading him outside of Harran. Of course, there’s a mysterious cult of sorts out there along with wide open fields perfect for dune buggies.

With the Enhanced Edition, you’ll have new weapons, visuals, bounties and Legendary levels to earn as you hack through hordes of the infected. The Following will be available to any one who bought the Season Pass while the Enhanced Edition is a free update to all Dying Light owners.

Dying Light: The Following will be out on February 8th for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Will you be picking it up? Let us know in the comments.

Dying Light developers Techland recently unveiled brand new content that will be coming to the game later this winter in the form of and Enhanced Edition and new content called The Following. We already know that The Following will have a map size that puts the original game’s content to shame but today the developer revealed quite a bit more in the form of a new features video. The big news from that video is something called Legendary Levels.

In the new video, Techland’s lead game developer for Dying Light unveiled that once a player has maxed out all the skill trees they will gain access to these Legendary Levels. In the Legendary Levels, players will get access to 250 new levels that will allow users to further upgrade things like stamina, damage and health. As an added bonus, every 25 levels, players will get the ability to choose new emblems, outfits and brand new weapons.

The long and short of these new features appears to be that Techland is looking to treat the Dying Light Enhanced Edition a bit like Bungie has done with the launch of Destiny: The Taken King. There are features that are going to be offered to people who already have the game, or they can be bought separately by people who haven’t played Dying Light just yet. The legendary levels are indeed going to be added into the base game when it launches as a free update. Dying Light: The Following and the Enhanced Edition are set to launch on February 9. 2016.

Techland has released a new trailer for Dying Light: The Following, the upcoming expansion for its open world survival horror title and we get a brief glimpse into the story set-up.

According to the trailer, it seems there’s a mysterious group outside of Harran that’s immune to the virus which turns people into zombies. Not only that but protagonist Kyle Crane receives a map which indicates a way out of the city. With resources running low, it’s Crane’s job to explore the world outside of the walled city. The question is whether he’ll be prepared to deal with what awaits.

Dying Light: The Following promises a significant amount of content with a map larger than the original game’s and a host of new weapons to try out. There will also be dune buggies to ride around and new challenges to complete. The expansion releases on February 9th 2016 so stay tuned for more details.

Now that Dying Light: The Following has been announced, we’re getting a bit of new information about what this new mode is going to feature. WCCF Tech recently got ahold of Techland in order to get some information about the mode that is coming. Among the information is the apparent size of the map, which the team is claiming will actually be twice as big as the base game’s map.

Producer Tymon Smektala was asked to to specific about how big the map is going to be. “We haven’t measured the new area exactly. Though a quick look shows us there is enough space to take the 2 main maps from Dying Light and fit them into The Countryside at least twice.” He told the site. The Following map is also supposed to be seamless, whereas the base game had the map split up by a loading screen.

That map will apparently fit nicely into the more than 10 hours of content we know the game is going to be bringing when it launches in February. One of the bigger questions that have been floating around the title is whether or not Parkour is still going to be playing a big time role. Smektala made sure to mention it still would. “There are areas of the map where parkour is still essential and a key tool to your survival. We know fans loved the parkour so were making sure it’s still a crucial element. The dirt buggy is something new when it comes to getting around, while parkour will be the familiar favorite which equally has a place in Dying Light: The Following.”

Techland’s Dying Light: The Following will be out next year along with an Enhanced Edition of the game and the developer wasn’t kidding about it being their largest expansion to date. Speaking to GameSpot, lead game designer Maciej Binkowski promised more than 10 hours of story content and plenty of new activities on the side.

“It’s an expansion, we mean that. It’s 10-plus hours just to finish the storyline and there’s a ton of activities that you can just keep doing even after those 10 or so hours. It all depends how you play the game. You can focus on the storyline and just push, that’s going to be 10 hours. The cool thing that we’re trying out with this expansion is that in order to push the story forward, there’s no single thing that you have to do to push it forward. There’s a number of things that you can do and it’s totally up to you why you want to do it.”

While base features like the parkour, animations and AI have been improved, newer features will include Legendary levels, bounties, new outfits and more emblems. Many of the new features have been shaped by the community according to Binkowski.

“It’s the feedback from the community. We have people asking us for more. They’re all, ‘Now I’ve got the best weapons, I’ve got the best modes, I’ve got the best elemental weapons, I’ve got everything. I’ve got skills. I’m killing everything, bring me some challenges.’ So we said, ‘Alright!’ We love people that play our game. They’re absolutely phenomenal. The truth is, we’re only alive because of them. That’s the thing we do. We want to bring as much value for our customers as possible.”

Dying Light: The Following and the Enhanced Edition will both be out on February 9th 2015 for PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Techland will be raising the price for its Season Pass of Dying Light and has already announced a price increase for upcoming expansion The Following.

The Following will now cost $19.99 as opposed to the previously announced $14.99. Meanwhile, the Season Pass will see its price increased from $19.99 to $29.99 from December 8th onwards. Both price increases are due to the scale of the expansion.

According to Techland, “Due to the increased scale of the project, we needed to revise the pricing that we announced back in August. We didn’t want this to come as a surprise to you, so we’re announcing it in advance. This price change will not affect players who already own the Season Pass.”

If you already own the Season Pass, then you’ll be receiving The Following completely free. You can purchase the Season Pass before December 8th to avoid paying any increased price for either piece of content going forward though. Still, what do you think of the price increase? Let us know in the comments.