Ivo Kuijpers
Feature Writer
Ivo is a feature writer at Zero1Gaming that covers the a latest developments accross games, esports, and streaming culture with a direct, player-first approach. His work focuses on clear analysis, honest criticism, and the details that shape how games are played, watched, and discussed.
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Blizzard Is Trying a StarCraft Shooter for the Third Time
Blizzard is bringing StarCraft back with a new game, but not as the RTS many fans expected. Announced at BlizzCon 2026, STARCRAFT is an open-world shooter led by former Far Cry boss Dan Hay and target...
BlizzCon 2026 Had StarCraft, Diablo V And A Lot Of Surprises
BlizzCon 2026 gave us three announcements that immediately changed what Blizzard's next few years look like. StarCraft is finally getting another shooter, Diablo V is official and World of Warcr...
The 10 best Blizzard games of all time, ranked
Blizzard games have a habit of becoming something different from whatever first shipped. Diablo III needed Reaper of Souls to find its best version. Warcraft III spawned a custom map that helped shape...
10 new games and projects we want to see at BlizzCon 2026
BlizzCon returns to Anaheim on September 12 and 13 with World of Warcraft: Midnight and Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred already out. With both expansions live, Blizzard can spend more of the weekend on what...
BlizzCon 2026 - Major Blizzard reveals and esports finals
BlizzCon returns to Anaheim on September 12 and 13 for its first show since 2023. The Opening Ceremony starts Saturday with new looks at World of Warcraft, Diablo and Overwatch, but some of the bigges...
Nintendo Direct September 9: all the biggest Switch 2 announcements
Nintendo's September 9 Direct filled out the Switch 2 lineup for the end of 2026 and early 2027. There were plenty of ports, upgrades and release dates, but only two completely new Nintendo games: Met...
Nintendo's Zelda 40th anniversary Switch 2 is made for collectors
Nintendo revealed The Legend of Zelda Switch 2 Special 40th Anniversary Edition on September 8. The console launches on October 29 for $519.99 in the US, which is only $20 more than a standard Switch ...
Everything announced at The Legend of Zelda 40th anniversary Nintendo Direct
Nintendo's September 8 The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct laid out what the next year of Zelda will look like, from the Ocarina of Time remake and special Switch 2 hardware to new amiibo, con...
7 Nintendo Direct announcements fans are begging for
Nintendo's next Direct is set for September 9, and the usual hopes are already starting to pile up. Some are realistic, like finally seeing the next 3D Mario. Others require a little more faith. ...
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush wants collecting cars to be as fun as racing them
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush arrives on September 10, 2026, with four open-world islands and more than 150 cars spread across four classes. Milestone has moved beyond the closed courses of the Unleashed g...
Crash Bandicoot at 30: the levels aged better than the rules
September 9 marks 30 years since Crash Bandicoot's North American PlayStation debut. Naughty Dog's platformer sends an escaped laboratory experiment across three islands to rescue his girlfriend Tawna...
What Dota 2 loses after Falcons' 799-game run ends
After 799 games together, Falcons' Dota 2 lineup has reached the end of its run. Team Falcons is leaving the game, bringing almost three years with skiter, Malr1ne, ATF, Cr1t- and Sneyking under the s...
Who Is Scump? The King of Call of Duty
In Call of Duty, there is one player everyone simply calls "The King." Seth " Scump " Abner earned that title the hard way, spending well over a decade as the most famous and most feared player in com...
Wardogs is turning teamwork into a negotiation
On September 5, Bulkhead opened Wardogs' closed beta to everyone for its final weekend, giving many more players a chance to try the 100-player military shooter before Early Access begins on September...
Scavland's first patch draws a line between difficulty and frustration
Scavland sends you into the ruined Soviet world of Zalesye with limited supplies and unreliable equipment. You scavenge for what you need, take jobs for different factions and risk losing valuable gea...
DLSS 5 looks better, but costs up to 70% performance
DLSS has usually been something you turn on to improve performance. With DLSS 5, Nvidia is asking you to trade some of that performance for a better image. In NBA 2K27, skin, hair and lighting can loo...
NoPixel V is turning GTA roleplay into a scheduled streaming event
Rockstar and Twitch have built the invite-only beta around viewers, using creator access, GTA Online rewards and discovery tools to make the opening days easy to follow without ever entering the serve...
The 9 Best Nintendo Exclusives You Can Play on Switch
The Nintendo Switch has built one of the strongest libraries in gaming, combining brand new adventures with definitive remasters from older hardware. Nintendo console exclusives stand out because they...
SteamDB could help Nexus Mods make game updates less painful
You probably use SteamDB for tracking Steam prices, player counts and game updates. Under its new owner, that same data could soon help check whether a mod collection matches your game version. On Sep...
Who Is Absi? The Middle Eastern King of Kick
The next great frontier of streaming is not in Los Angeles or Stockholm. It is in the Middle East, and Hani "Absi" Al-Qablan is one of the people proving it. A Jordanian creator streaming almost entir...
The Last of Us review: Joel and Ellie's journey still holds up
The Last of Us follows Joel, a smuggler hired to escort 14-year-old Ellie across a United States devastated by a fungal outbreak. Their journey takes them beyond military quarantine zones and through ...
Sony's disc cutoff takes a choice away from publishers, too
Sony is preparing to end physical PlayStation releases, even though some publishers still make a meaningful part of their money from discs. From January 2028, new PlayStation games will no longer be p...
Stellar Blade and Lies of P have changed how Korean developers see console games
Stellar Blade and Lies of P have made Korean developers more confident about building premium games for consoles and PC. Shift Up technical director Dong-ki Lee said at Gamescom 2026 that their succes...
Red Dead Redemption 2 Review: How Well Does Rockstar's Western Hold Up in 2026?
Red Dead Redemption 2 was a huge release when Rockstar launched it in 2018. Its version of the American frontier stretches from muddy livestock towns and mountain trails to the crowded streets of Sain...
Who Is Ibai? The Streamer Who Outgrew Twitch
If you only know Ibai Llanos from Twitch, that now tells you surprisingly little about what he actually does. He started out as a League of Legends streamer in Spain at 19, building an audience around...
Steam Frame Release Date, Price, Specs And Everything You Need To Know
Valve is returning to VR with the Steam Frame, a standalone SteamOS headset built to play both VR games and the rest of your Steam library. You can run supported games directly on the headset or strea...
The 7 Best Games in Xbox History
Xbox has produced some of its best games by taking familiar genres and giving them a distinct identity. Halo turned arena shooting into a contest over weapons and territory, while Fable built a fantas...
The 10 Best Platform Games of All Time (2D & 3D)
You can often judge a platformer by what happens after you jump somewhere the level never clearly told you to go. If the character can correct course and catch a hidden ledge, that reckless jump opens...
Everything you need to know about the Steam Machine
Valve's Steam Machine is a compact gaming PC made for the living room. Plug it into a television, sign in with your Steam account and your existing library comes with you. It runs SteamOS by default, ...
The 6 Best Riot Games
Riot Games builds multiplayer traps that demand hundreds of hours just to learn the basics and thousands more before you can call yourself decent. Every title in their lineup focuses entirely on compe...
Exclusive Interview With PUBG Streamer Corky On Why Every Match Is Its Own Movie
Corky has spent thousands of hours in PUBG, but he still talks about each match as if he has no idea how it is going to end. In his words, every match is its own movie. That unpredictability has kept ...
Xbox Gamescom Day 2 Had Dinosaurs, Giant Cops And A Lot Of Dates
Xbox's first Gamescom broadcast gave us a mix of extended gameplay, developer interviews and new announcements. Day 2 kept that variety, but put even more emphasis on extended gameplay and developer d...
Gears of War: E-Day Puts You In The Middle Of Sera’s Collapse
Gears of War has never been short of ruins. We have fought through bombed-out streets, abandoned homes and entire districts where whatever happened to the people living there is already history by the...
Xbox Wants Your Game Library To Survive The Next 25 Years
Xbox turns 25 this year, which means some players have been building a collection for nearly a quarter of a century. Original Xbox games, 360 discs, Xbox One purchases and newer Series X titles have a...
Everything We Learned From Xbox's Gamescom 2026 Stream
Xbox's first Gamescom 2026 broadcast was largely built around games we already knew were coming. Many received considerably more time than they had during the summer showcase, giving developers room t...
The 8 Best Capcom Games of All Time
Capcom has spent decades moving confidently between courtroom mysteries, arcade fighters, horror, and demanding action games. Its strongest releases do more than represent an important moment in gamin...
The 9 Best Square Enix Games of All Time
Square Enix inherited two long traditions when Square and Enix merged, yet its catalogue reaches far beyond the famous series printed on most of its anniversary merchandise. The best games in that his...
How To Fish A Complete Beginner Guide To Surviving The Chaos
How to Fish recorded an all time peak of 266,896 concurrent players in only four days of being available on Steam. It is not as if hundreds of thousands of players suddenly developed a craving for fis...
Just Enough Items The Definitive Minecraft Survival Guide
Staring at an unknown glowing crystal in a custom modpack with absolutely zero in-game context is incredibly frustrating. Nobody wants to pause their session to dig through outdated wikis and chase de...
Sony Buttonless Controller Patent Could Rethink Accessible Gamepads
We all know exactly how a PlayStation controller feels the moment we pick it up. Your thumbs naturally find the analog sticks and your index fingers rest perfectly on the triggers. For most of us the ...
8 Things I Want to See at Gamescom 2026
With Gamescom expanding its footprint, Xbox celebrating its 25th anniversary and a lot of exciting new releases on the horizon, my expectations for this year's Gamescom are quite high. The gamin...
The Jenny Mod: The Most Infamous Addition To Minecraft
There is no delicate way to describe the Jenny Mod. It is an adult Minecraft mod built around interactive female NPCs, including explicit NSFW interactions. That content is the reason the mod became i...
The 10 Best Detective Games
The greatest detective games refuse to treat you like a passenger who simply clicks until the story triggers a confession. When an accusation lands, it should feel earned because you genuinely underst...
The 11 Best Party Games for you and your friends
A great party game has to survive the dangerous ten minute window between someone suggesting a round and everyone actually understanding the controls.
Gamescom 2026: The Biggest Show In Europe Just Got Bigger
With E3 permanently in the rear view mirror Gamescom is now the undisputed heavyweight champion of the gaming calendar and the 2026 edition is shaping up to be an absolute monster. Every single square...
Xbox Gamescom 2026: The Ultimate Viewer Guide
Xbox is going big at Gamescom this year. Two full broadcasts, a packed show floor in Cologne and enough confirmed games to stretch well beyond the usual handful of headline trailers. For anyone follow...
The 12 Best Sandbox Games
Sandbox games promise freedom, but the best ones give that freedom shape. Their worlds respond when you knock down a wall, reroute a production line, or build a machine that works for reasons the game...
The 12 Best Gacha Games
The greatest gacha games survive a simple but brutal test by remaining genuinely worth playing even after the dopamine rush of a lucky pull fades away. Where predatory titles rely on aggressive power ...
The 9 Best Xbox Series X and Series S Games
The modern Xbox library excels at giving players massive digital playgrounds that refuse to hold your hand or dictate how you solve a problem. Instead of pushing you down a narrow corridor with script...
Square Enix The Masters Of The JRPG
Square Enix stands as the undisputed giant of the Japanese role playing game. Over several decades this developer and publisher group delivered industry defining stories and produced iconic soundtrack...