Björn Norin
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Zero1 Gaming editorial staff covering esports analysis, gaming hardware reviews, features, and patch notes updates.
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Articles Written By Björn Norin
Supermassive Games CEO Is Stepping Down After Layoffs And Directive 8020
Supermassive Games is changing leadership again after a tough period. Robert Henrysson is stepping down as CEO after guiding the Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures studio through layoffs, a delayed proj...
Diablo 4 Season 14 Release Time
Diablo 4 Season 14 is live now, so players can finally start fresh in the Season of Death Awakening. The new season launched on June 30 at 10:00 AM PT, which is 1:00 PM ET, 6:00 PM BST, 7:00 PM CEST, ...
Kojima’s Next Game OD Gets Positive Update
Hideo Kojima returning to horror makes players excited and nervous. P.T. showed how much fear he could create from one hallway, one door, and a few sounds that refused to leave your head. OD has been ...
GTA 6 Cover Girl Issues New Statement On Apparent Likeness Use
The GTA 6 cover art has fans searching for clues, and this time fans are focused on the brunette woman in the green top. Many players think she looks like Gabriela Chiquin, a DJ, musician, and influen...
Overwatch Is Offering Players Loot Boxes And Rewards In New In-Game Event
Overwatch players have another reason to keep showing up this season, and this one is not locked behind a store bundle. Venture’s Excavation Initiative is live in Season 3, letting players earn Loot B...
Warhorse Studios Reveals New Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 LEGO-Style Figures
Henry of Skalitz and Hans Capon have spent enough time getting into trouble across Bohemia. Now they can do it on your desk. Warhorse Studios has shown off new Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 brick figure...
People Are Trying To Resell Their GTA 6 Pre-Orders For Hundreds Of Dollars
GTA 6 is already expensive at retail, but some sellers are trying to turn the preorder window into a scalper market. Listings for physical preorders have started appearing above the official price, ev...
Fortnite Is Finally Starting To Bring Back Battle Pass Outfits
Fortnite players who missed recent Battle Pass skins are finally getting a second chance. Epic is starting to bring select Battle Pass outfits to the Item Shop, beginning with Marvel skins from Chapte...
South Of Midnight Dev First Xbox Studio Hit With Layoffs
Compulsion Games gave Xbox a rare first-party release that did not feel like it came from a committee. South of Midnight had folklore, stop-motion style, blues music, and a voice of its own. Now the s...
Marvel Rivals Summer Festival Adds Black Widow Skin And 2,500 Free Units
The best reason to jump back into Marvel Rivals this week is not only another swimsuit skin. The Summer Festival is also handing out free currency, and players who keep up with the event can earn up t...
Fable Collector’s Edition Has Already Sold Out As Scalpers Move In
The return of Fable finally has the kind of collector’s box longtime fans wanted, and many of them already missed it. The Collector’s Edition is sold out through the Xbox Game Studios Shop, leaving fa...
Lords of the Fallen II Release Date Delayed
Lords of the Fallen II will not make its old 2026 window. CI Games has moved the sequel to Q1 2027, giving Hexworks more time to work on the action RPG before it launches on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nint...
Deltarune Chapter 5 Is Out Right Now
The waiting game around Deltarune has always been part patience, part detective work, and part fan frustration. Every newsletter, music tease, and tiny Toby Fox update gets pulled apart because fans k...
Capcom Spotlight will show more Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC and Onimusha
Capcom does not need a mystery announcement to make this week’s Spotlight worth watching. The publisher already has a strong lineup on the table, and each game has something important to prove. One is...
Kingdom Come 3 2027 window sounds too good to be true
A new Kingdom Come game coming as early as 2027 sounds exciting, but it also sounds a little too neat. Fans just spent years waiting for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, then watched Warhorse support it w...
Crimson Desert update fixes disappearing outdoor furniture
Decorating a home in a game is supposed to be the relaxing part. Players spend time crafting the right pieces, moving chairs a little closer to a table, placing lights near a path, and making an empty...
Dead by Daylight confirms Terrifier Chapter for November
Art the Clown is exactly the type of horror villain Dead by Daylight fans have been waiting for. He is silent, nasty, unpredictable, and uncomfortable in a way that stands out from older slasher icons...
Halo: Campaign Evolved fixes PS5 split-screen PS Plus confusion
Split-screen is an important part of the Halo experience. For many players, the series is closely linked to playing with friends on the same screen, sharing campaign missions, and enjoying co-op gamep...
The Complete History of Gambit Esports: From CIS Pioneers to Major Champions
Welcome, Gambit fans. Gambit Esports has now been integrated into the Zero1Gaming product, offering a dedicated space to revisit and reflect on one of esports’ more defining organizations. From its ea...
IEM Cologne Major field gets smaller after early exits
The IEM Cologne Major 2026 has reached the playoff stage, with most of the 32-team field now eliminated. FURIA and Aurora have already reached the semi-finals, while G2, Spirit, Falcons and Vitality a...
Minecraft Players Can Now Explore the Chaos Cubed Update
Minecraft updates are at their best when they give players something simple and weird, then let the community figure out the rest. Chaos Cubed fits that idea well. It does not try to change survival f...
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 gets free suit update three years later
A lot of players had already moved on from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. The main story was finished, the PC version had launched, and Insomniac had already said no extra story DLC was planned. For most fans...
Xbox Game Pass adds two more day-one games for July 2026
July is getting a little more interesting for Game Pass subscribers. Not every month needs one massive headline game to feel useful. Sometimes the service works best when it gives players a few smalle...
The 8 best classes in Diablo IV
Not every Diablo IV class feels equally good to level, gear, and live with for dozens of hours. These are the ones that feel the best right now, from the classes that need more patience to the ones I would recommend first.
Diablo 4's War Plans System Is the First Endgame That Has Kept Me Interested
For the first time since Diablo 4 launched, I find myself logging in because I genuinely want to play rather than because I'm chasing a specific upgrade.
Ninja Gaiden 4 is a brutal return with a new edge
Ninja Gaiden 4 does not ease the series back into the room. It kicks the door open, throws Yakumo into a rain-soaked Tokyo, and asks whether my hands can still keep up with a kind of action game...
Diablo 4 anniversary event gives players free gifts and a reason to hunt goblins again
Diablo 4 is celebrating its third anniversary with the kind of event players can actually use. Blizzard is giving away free weapon cosmetics, bringing back Mother’s Blessing for faster leveling, and f...
Apex’s Aftershock event is doing more than selling a Fuse prestige skin
Respawn’s Aftershock event starts on March 31 and runs through April 21, but the event is bigger than its cosmetic headline. It arrives as Apex’s mid-season reset for Season 28, tying together legend ...
Valve’s answer to New York’s loot box lawsuit turns on one fight: whether CS2 and Dota 2 monetization is gambling or just optional game content
Valve has formally pushed back after New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the company over loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2. New York says Valve’s systems amount to ...
VALORANT Game Changers is losing momentum as its role in the ecosystem comes into question
Riot Games’ Game Changers circuit was introduced to build a competitive pathway for women and marginalized genders in VALORANT, and for several years it delivered clear progress. It created its own st...
Riot’s Season 2 reset is smaller in scale than earlier overhauls, but it is aimed at changing how League feels every day
League of Legends Season 2 of 2026, branded as Pandemonium, is not built around one giant mechanical rewrite. Riot is treating it as a broad reset of the game’s texture instead, combining role quest c...
Lilith’s return gives Diablo 4’s next expansion a very different threat
Blizzard has started showing its hand for Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, and the biggest surprise is not a new region or class. It is Lilith. A newly revealed in-game cinematic brings her back after the ba...