The way I see it, and many people will agree, is that if he was to delay the release from this year to next, he would have made an announcement about it. However, the complete silence from public posts from him could well mean that there is no delay. The way I thought about it, and still do think about it is, he has just been abroad to see his family etc... This could be a result of him about to release the game, and wanting to see his family before he is head over heels with word to do on the ALPHA. In this thought, he could be going to see his family because he knows hes not going to have much time to, after the release because he is in another completely different country) which means now he is back, he has nothing else to worry about other than patching the last few "hacking" issues before its release. As he did mention in a video presentation I watched on YouTube, that solving the hacking "crisis" is his main focus. Which is what we all wanted for the DayZ MOD. There is a picture on a couple of pages back on this post of someone having a conversation with rocket over Facebook, and he did say he is jet-lagged and will make an announcement "soon". I will edit in the picture. So this explains the reasoning behind the lack of words on the forum about ANYTHING to do with the standalone. BUT, you can go to the official blog (www.dayzgame.com) and wait for a new post on there about the updates. That's what I have been doing for the last couple of months. This image was posted by: zenorc123 Profile link: http://dayzmod.com/f...5146-zenorc123/