How We Make Our News

People write our reviews, features, guides and opinion. If a piece has a verdict, a ranking or a point of view, a person wrote it and put their name on it.

Short news stories are different. Games get announced, patched and delayed all day, so we have an AI news desk, ZAI, that writes those short stories and lets us cover an announcement while it is still news.

ZAI follows official sources: Steam announcements, publisher and studio blogs, and the platform holders. For each story it does four things:

• Reads one official source and writes one story from it.
• Links that source in the article, so you can read the original.
• Uses images from the game's own official media.
• Puts a label under the byline saying it wrote the story.

ZAI has hard limits. It never writes:

• Reviews, or a verdict on a game it has not played.
• Rumours from unnamed sources.
• Quotes that nobody said.
• Claims the source does not make.

If the source does not say it, the story does not say it.

Before a ZAI story goes live, its names, dates, prices and platforms are compared with the source automatically. A story that fails a check does not publish.

An editor reads every ZAI story after it goes live. If something is off, they fix it or take the story down.

Email editorial@zero1gaming.com with the link to the article and what looks wrong. We fix it, and we say at the bottom of the article what changed.

Every ZAI story carries a note under its byline saying that ZAI wrote it from the publisher's own announcement, with a link to this page. No note, no ZAI: a story without it was written by a person.