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Ivo Kuijpers - Staff Writer | Zero1 Gaming

Ivo Kuijpers

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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How Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Enchanted an Entire Generation

How Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Enchanted an Entire Generation

Few games from the PlayStation 2 era announced their brilliance as quietly as Prince of Persia The Sands of Time. Then that voice cuts in, calm and a little amused: no, no, that is not how it happened...

Jul 31, 20269 min read

What the $55B Saudi Takeover Means for EA's Future Games

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What the $55B Saudi Takeover Means for EA's Future Games

On August 4, 2026, the publisher behind franchises like Battlefield, EA Sports FC, and The Sims is leaving the stock market. After 36 years as a public company, Electronic Arts is going private in a h...

Jul 31, 20267 min read

How a WoW Classic Bug Tests the Psychology of Permadeath

How a WoW Classic Bug Tests the Psychology of Permadeath

You are level 22, picking your way along the Webwinder Path into Boulderslide Ravine in the Stonetalon Mountains. It is a normal leveling route, the kind you have run a dozen times before. Then, witho...

Jul 30, 20267 min read

Who Is Caedrel? The Analyst Who Outgrew the Stream

Who Is Caedrel? The Analyst Who Outgrew the Stream

When the major League of Legends tournaments roll around, more people watch Marc " Caedrel " Lamont than Riot Games' own official broadcast. With over 1.6 million followers, a regular spot among the t...

Jul 29, 20268 min read

How GTA San Andreas Redefined the Open-World Genre

How GTA San Andreas Redefined the Open-World Genre

 For this Zero1Gaming review I went back to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PC expecting a quick nostalgia hit, but was immediately drawn back into its world. From the early-game grind of maxing...

Jul 28, 20267 min read

Top 10 Free PC Games Xbox Owners Get In Ubisoft's Newest Update

Top 10 Free PC Games Xbox Owners Get In Ubisoft's Newest Update

Ubisoft and Xbox just rolled out a new Console-to-PC program, and if you already own the right games, it is effectively free money. Announced on Xbox Wire, the deal gives Xbox players who own digital ...

Jul 28, 20267 min read

Exclusive Interview with Astralis Co-Founder and Owner: Jakob Lund Kristensen

Exclusive Interview with Astralis Co-Founder and Owner: Jakob Lund Kristensen

Jakob Lund Kristensen has been part of Danish Counter-Strike for the better part of two decades. He founded Copenhagen Wolves, the organization that first housed future Astralis greats like device, du...

Jul 27, 202615 min read

Leasing What You Own: The Brutal Economics Driving Xbox's Ad-Supported Cloud

Leasing What You Own: The Brutal Economics Driving Xbox's Ad-Supported Cloud

You bought the game. You paid full price, the licence sits in your account, and the thing belongs to you in every sense the law recognises. Then you press play and Microsoft shows you two minutes of a...

Jul 27, 20266 min read

The Ultimate Top 10 Best Free Games Ever Given Away on the Epic Games Store

The Ultimate Top 10 Best Free Games Ever Given Away on the Epic Games Store

A lot has been said lately about how the digitalization of games is killing the industry, but Epic's weekly giveaway is undeniably one of the bright spots. Every Thursday since December 2018, Epic has...

Jul 24, 20268 min read

Trojan Horses on Steam: How $220,000 Vanished Under Valve's Radar

Trojan Horses on Steam: How $220,000 Vanished Under Valve's Radar

When you click Install on Steam , you are making an assumption you have probably never put into words. You assume Valve checked, the developer is a real person, the build is clean, and the worst thing...

Jul 23, 20268 min read

FIFA Street 2 Is Still the Undisputed King of the Streets

FIFA Street 2 Is Still the Undisputed King of the Streets

Load up a football game in 2026 and it wants a serious conversation with you. Pressing traps, defensive lines, ball physics modelled down to the ankle, a tactics screen with more sliders than a mixing...

Jul 23, 20269 min read

Why Game Pass Misunderstood the Modern Gamer

Why Game Pass Misunderstood the Modern Gamer

Mike Brown, the creative director of Forza Horizon 5, recently said out loud what a lot of people in the industry have only muttered: Xbox Game Pass was a good idea that did not work. Speaking to Minn...

Jul 22, 20266 min read

How a European Legal War Could Break the Console Market

How a European Legal War Could Break the Console Market

Why does a digital game, which requires no plastic box or shipping, often cost significantly more than a physical copy? That exact frustration has sparked a multi-billion dollar legal battle in Europe...

Jul 22, 20266 min read

Top 5 Train Games to Play During the 2026 Steam Train Fest

Top 5 Train Games to Play During the 2026 Steam Train Fest

Steam Train Fest 2026 is the one week a year when otherwise reasonable adults sit down to seriously debate whether spending roughly seven thousand dollars on digital train add-ons counts as a smart pu...

Jul 21, 20265 min read

Who Is Gaules? The Voice of Brazilian Esports

Who Is Gaules? The Voice of Brazilian Esports

Alexandre " Gaules " Borba Chiqueta is one of the biggest streamers on the planet. On any given week his Twitch channel might be broadcasting a Counter-Strike Major, a Formula 1 race, or an NBA game, ...

Jul 21, 20266 min read

Who Is Tarik? The Content King of Valorant

Who Is Tarik? The Content King of Valorant

Tarik is a retired Counter-Strike Major winner who somehow became even more famous after he stopped playing professionally. Today, Tarik Çelik is the undisputed king of Valorant on Twitch. Signed to S...

Jul 20, 20266 min read

Why GTA VI's Console-First Launch Is a Blessing in Disguise for PC Players

Why GTA VI's Console-First Launch Is a Blessing in Disguise for PC Players

You know the drill by now. Rockstar drops a date, console players circle it on the calendar, and PC players start the long, spoiler-dodging wait with the familiar feeling of being an afterthought. Gra...

Jul 17, 20266 min read

5 Underrated League of Legends Streamers to Watch During EWC 2026

5 Underrated League of Legends Streamers to Watch During EWC 2026

League belongs to Paris this month. The Esports World Cup relocated there for 2026, and its League of Legends event puts sixteen teams and a two million dollar prize pool under the brightest spotlight...

Jul 16, 20267 min read

Why Twitch Could Be the New College Admissions Test

Why Twitch Could Be the New College Admissions Test

For the 2026 academic year, the University of Silicon Valley (USV) launched the Max Achievement Scholarship, allocating up to $15,000 annually for specific single-player milestones. Collegiate gaming ...

Jul 16, 20267 min read

The GOG Rebellion: One Post, a Blank Disc, and a Shot at the All-Digital Future

The GOG Rebellion: One Post, a Blank Disc, and a Shot at the All-Digital Future

On July 14, GOG told its customers to go find some blank discs. The message on X was: download the offline installer for any game you own on GOG, save it to a disc, and it is yours forever, no storefr...

Jul 16, 20265 min read

The 5 Biggest Announcements From TennoCon 2026

The 5 Biggest Announcements From TennoCon 2026

Keeping a thirteen-year-old MMO alive is an industry anomaly. Building a second one right next to it is a massive risk. For thirteen years, Digital Extremes was a single-game studio. TennoCon 2026 end...

Jul 15, 20266 min read

The GTA IV Cold Case: Why Rockstar Would Rather Leave a Masterpiece in 2008

The GTA IV Cold Case: Why Rockstar Would Rather Leave a Masterpiece in 2008

Ask the man who played Roman Bellic and you get the same question millions of fans have been asking for years. In a recent interview, Jason Zumwalt, the voice and motion capture actor behind Niko's co...

Jul 14, 20266 min read

The Cost of Perfection: How $300M Budgets Killed the Weird Video Game

The Cost of Perfection: How $300M Budgets Killed the Weird Video Game

At Gamescom Asia, former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden described a games industry with less room for risk. His phrasing was blunt: "AA is gone." He linked the loss of mid-budget games to rising p...

Jul 13, 20266 min read

The EU Will Not Save PlayStation Discs

The EU Will Not Save PlayStation Discs

With Sony setting an end date for new physical PlayStation games, players have started looking to the EU for possible intervention. Brussels has forced hardware changes before, most visibly with USB-C...

Jul 13, 20267 min read

Microsoft Wants Forever Games, But the ESO Layoffs Show the Real Cost

Microsoft Wants Forever Games, But the ESO Layoffs Show the Real Cost

Every major publisher wants a game players keep returning to for years: regular updates, paid extras, subscriptions and a community that stays active long after launch. The Elder Scrolls Online alread...

Jul 9, 20266 min read

Minecraft Drop 3: The 5 best additions in the release everyone's calling 'The Chair Update'

Minecraft Drop 3: The 5 best additions in the release everyone's calling 'The Chair Update'

Minecraft players have built working computers with Redstone. They have recreated cities, made calculators, designed automated farms and turned the game into a playground for people with too much pati...

Jul 9, 20268 min read

Xbox Just Cut the Veteran Behind Its Most Player-Friendly Feature

Xbox Just Cut the Veteran Behind Its Most Player-Friendly Feature

Microsoft's latest cuts at Xbox have mostly been about the numbers: 4,800 jobs across Microsoft, 3,200 expected inside Xbox, studios reduced, projects reassessed and another reset for the gaming divis...

Jul 8, 20265 min read

State of Decay 3 Turns a Game Pass Promise Into Fine Print

State of Decay 3 Turns a Game Pass Promise Into Fine Print

In June 2026, State of Decay 3 looked like a clean Game Pass win. Xbox showed the game during its showcase with the familiar promise: day one on Game Pass. For subscribers, that put the game exactly w...

Jul 8, 20265 min read

Bethesda's New Course Could Make Its Biggest Franchises Even Bigger

Bethesda's New Course Could Make Its Biggest Franchises Even Bigger

Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, with Xbox expected to account for 3,200 of them. For Bethesda, this means fewer projects can get the same amount of time, budget and staff as before. In an internal me...

Jul 8, 20266 min read

Fake GTA VI Early Access Scams Are Already Targeting Impatient Fans

Fake GTA VI Early Access Scams Are Already Targeting Impatient Fans

With GTA VI finally real enough to pre-order and its release date set for November 19, 2026, the game has also become more useful to scammers. The closer GTA VI gets, the easier it becomes to dress up...

Jun 30, 20266 min read

GTA VI Is Turning Bonus Content Into Locked Doors

GTA VI Is Turning Bonus Content Into Locked Doors

When Rockstar opened pre-orders for GTA VI, one thing became clear very quickly: the game is being sold in two versions. The Standard Edition costs $79.99, while the Ultimate Edition pushes the price ...

Jun 30, 20267 min read

Top 5 Craziest Things Fans Have Done to Get GTA VI Info

Top 5 Craziest Things Fans Have Done to Get GTA VI Info

Last Thursday, June 25, GTA VI suddenly became a lot more real. Pre-orders went live, Rockstar confirmed the different editions, revealed the bonuses, and gave players the kind of practical informatio...

Jun 29, 20267 min read

Black Flag Resynced Could Be Ubisoft's Best Argument Against Map Bloat

Black Flag Resynced Could Be Ubisoft's Best Argument Against Map Bloat

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced brings back one of Ubisoft’s most beloved worlds at a moment when open-world games are judged very differently than they were in 2013. Ubisoft has fram...

Jun 26, 20267 min read

The 10 best characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 2026

The 10 best characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 2026

Super Smash Bros. has always been built on chaos, matchups, and arguments. Since 1999, the series has brought casual Nintendo fans, and competitive fighters into the same arena. Super Smash Bros. Ulti...

Jun 26, 20269 min read

After 15 years Skyrim still makes getting lost feel worth it

After 15 years Skyrim still makes getting lost feel worth it

Skyrim was once considered the greatest RPG of all times. But 15 years later it finds itself competing against a much stronger genre, and although it still has some of the strongest RPG gameplay, the ...

Jun 24, 20268 min read