Pavan Nikam
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Pavan Nikam writes about the latest gaming news, new releases, updates, and industry trends for Zero1Gaming. He focuses on creating engaging content that keeps gamers informed about the stories and updates that matter most.
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Dragon Age: Origins Is Unsupported On Steam Deck, But It Runs Incredibly And Costs Just $3
Steam Deck’s Unsupported label can make a game look dead on arrival, but Dragon Age: Origins is one of those cases where the badge sounds worse than the reality. BioWare’s classic RPG needs a little s...
Bethesda Game Has Completely Shut Down
Bethesda's Elder Scrolls mobile game is coming to an end. The Elder Scrolls: Blades shut down on June 30, 2026, and players can no longer access the game because it depended on live servers. It was no...
Palworld Highlights Important Changes Ahead Of 1.0 Update
Palworld is getting ready to leave Early Access, and Pocketpair is not treating Version 1.0 like a simple content drop. The July 10 update is bringing the World Tree, new Pals, new regions, and a new ...
College Football 27 Release Times For Early Access And Regular Edition
College Football 27 is almost here, which means players are already planning their first Dynasty save, Road to Glory run, and late-night Ultimate Team grind. The only confusing part is the launch sche...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Update Adds New Zombies Map And Nicolas Cage
Call of Duty has reached the point where a serious Zombies map and Nicolas Cage can come in the same update and both fit the game. Season 04 Reloaded gives Black Ops 7 players a new round-based Zombie...
Deltarune Chapter 5 Launches To Almost 300,000 Players As Chapter 6 Targets 2027
Deltarune did not need a loud marketing push to take over Steam for a day. Chapter 5 arrived, fans rushed in, and the game shot to a new all-time peak of 291,816 concurrent players. For an episodic RP...
GTA 6's No-Disc Physical Copy Is Still a Much Bigger Deal Than It Sounds
A new GTA launch is usually the kind of thing people want to own, keep, and remember. For many players, that has always meant buying the boxed version, placing it on a shelf, and knowing the game is i...
Free Silent Hill f DLC Is Available Right Now
Silent Hill f players have one more free item to add to their collection. Konami has released the free Crimson Butterfly costume, a Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake crossover outfit that gives...
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 Is Fixing XV2’s Biggest Mistake By Making Crossplay An Absolute Priority
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 did almost everything an online anime RPG could do to stay alive. It kept adding characters, quests, raids, events, and balance updates for years. The one thing it never solved...
Persona 5 And Call Of Duty Are Officially Crossing Over
Persona 5 Royal has appeared in enough crossovers that a new cameo rarely feels shocking anymore. Call of Duty: Mobile still found a way to make it sound surprising. Season 6 is called Take Your Heart...
After 26 Years, Majora’s Mask Finally Has a True Spiritual Successor
Plenty of games have chased the strange mood of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. The harder part has always been copying what made it hurt. Termina was memorable because every person had a routine,...
Sonic Chaos Hunt Data Terms Put AI Training In The Spotlight
SEGA’s Sonic anniversary event has a promising idea. Sonic Chaos Hunt sends fans after missing Chaos Emeralds, ties the search to Sonic’s 35th anniversary, and offers prizes linked to a Club Chaos eve...
Nicolas Cage becomes a Call of Duty skin in what may be one last hurrah for goofy collaborations
Nicolas Cage showing up in Call of Duty is funny because it feels both perfect and out of time. The actor fits the chaos of a loud summer update, but his arrival comes after months of complaints that ...
GTA 6 Price and Ultimate Edition Officially Revealed Ahead of Pre-Orders
For months, players wondered whether GTA 6 would be the game that pushed a standard edition to $100. Rockstar has stopped short of that, but the final price still moves the series into more expensive ...
The Drifter is out now on Switch and Switch 2
The Drifter is now available on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, bringing Powerhoof’s fast, grimy point-and-click thriller to Nintendo players after its earlier PC release. This is not the kind ...
Marathon is finally giving solo and duo players a safer way into Cryo Archive
Marathon has always sounded exciting until the pressure starts piling up. You drop in, chase loot, worry about other squads, watch your gear risk climbing, and hope the run does not end because anothe...
Star Fox gets day-one update before Switch 2 launch
Star Fox is finally returning on Switch 2, and Nintendo wants players to have the full package ready as soon as they start. The game launches on June 25, but a day-one update will be waiting first. Th...
Olivia Rodrigo Fortnite skin is now official
Many fans expected Olivia Rodrigo to join Fortnite sooner or later. Epic’s game has become a place where music stars do more than appear on a loading screen. They get outfits, songs, emotes, and somet...
Hideo Kojima shares new details on horror game OD
Kojima’s best horror moment scared people with a hallway, a radio, and the feeling that something had changed when they turned around. That is why OD keeps getting attention even though Kojima Product...
Modder brings multiplayer to The Last of Us Part II
The Last of Us fans have been waiting a long time for multiplayer to come back. The first game’s Factions mode turned quiet movement, quick crafting, and desperate shootouts into tense matches where e...
Bethesda gives new update on The Elder Scrolls 6
Fans have waited long enough for The Elder Scrolls 6 and are looking for real updates. It needs something that makes the wait feel less endless. Players have replayed Skyrim, followed every small comm...
Rockstar confirms when GTA 6 preorders go live
Fans have spent months waiting for Rockstar to answer the practical question around GTA 6: when can they actually preorder it? That answer is now official. Preorders for Grand Theft Auto VI begin on J...
Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 are coming to PlayStation in July
For a lot of Call of Duty fans, the older Black Ops games are not just old entries in the series. Many players still talk about these campaigns today, the multiplayer maps they still argue about, and ...
Disney Dreamlight Valley DLC release confirmed for July 8
Disney Dreamlight Valley is at its best when a new update gives players somewhere warm to settle into for a while. A new character is fun, but a whole themed space with quests, decorations, and small ...
Diablo 4 Switch 2 release looks more likely after new rating
Diablo 4 feels like the kind of game Switch 2 owners would want on the system. It has short dungeon runs, endless loot, seasonal progress, and co-op that would make sense on a console players can use ...
Stellaris celebrates 10 years with free weekend and 70% discount
There are strategy games people finish, and then there are strategy games people keep coming back to because every campaign turns into a new story. Stellaris has lived in that second group for 10 year...
Battlefield 6 update adds a Call of Duty: Ghosts style mechanic
Some memorable Battlefield moments happen when players change their approach during a match. A squad moves toward one objective, a tank rolls in from the side, someone calls for a revive, and the whol...
Astralis extend Major playoff drought to nine events after early Cologne exit
Astralis have exited the IEM Cologne Major 2026 in the Swiss stage, extending their absence from Major playoffs to nine consecutive events. The Danish roster finished Stage 2 on a 1-3 record, failing ...
NAVI shock exit and Astralis collapse: why Cologne has become a Major of upsets
Early exits by Natus Vincere and Astralis at the IEM Cologne Major 2026 have pushed the tournament into an unexpected direction, with several top-seeded teams falling before the playoff stage. The res...
Marathon players say Bungie made Season 2 harder to trust
Marathon needed Season 2 to feel like a fresh start. Bungie had a new map variant, a new Runner shell, fresh weapons, ranked changes, and a new upgrade path ready for players who wanted a reason to re...
Vampire Survivors dev may rethink Fortnite collab over GenAI concerns
The announcement of the Vampire Survivors and Fortnite crossover came as a fun surprise to many fans. It was easy to picture the joke working: a small indie hit built on chaos, garlic, skeletons, and ...
Truck-kun is Steam Next Fest’s strangest mix of GTA and Crazy Taxi
Steam Next Fest always has a few demos that make you stop for the name alone. Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! is one of them. It sounds like a joke someone made in a group chat, then S...
Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 return in Black Ops 7 Season 04
Call of Duty fans who miss the older Black Ops games may enjoy some returning features in Season 04 of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Activision is not releasing full remasters of Call of Duty: Black Ops ...
The Adventures of Elliot release date and time
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales releases on June 18, 2026. Square Enix’s new HD-2D action RPG is coming to Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Console players should check ...
Hellraiser: Revival release date confirmed for October
Hellraiser: Revival now has a release date, and Saber Interactive is not hiding what kind of horror game this is. The first-person survival horror game launches on October 8, 2026, for PS5, Xbox Serie...
ARC Raiders Takes Action Against Item Duplication Exploits
Loot is a big part of what makes ARC Raiders fun. Players take their gear into raids, search for valuable items, and try to make it out safely without losing everything. To keep things fair, Embark St...
New official Invincible release confirmed for July 30
Invincible fans have a new official release coming this summer, but it is not another episode or a new video game. The next release is Invincible: Superhero Roleplaying - Starter Set, a tabletop RPG b...
Forza Horizon 6 Series 2 update adds new cars and easier progression
Forza Horizon 6 is not wasting much time after launch. Series 2 is here, and it gives players a fresh Festival Playlist, more reward cars, a new place to meet other drivers, and a patch that fixes sev...
Helldivers 2 patch turns Major Orders into full Galactic Campaigns
Helldivers 2 works best when players feel like one bad squad decision can somehow become part of a galaxy-wide disaster. The best nights are not just about finishing a mission. They are about watching...
Nintendo Switch finally gets the eShop update fans waited years for
The Nintendo Switch eShop has been the console’s least charming loading screen for almost a decade. Players loved the hardware, built huge libraries, chased sales, and carried the system everywhere, b...
Life is Strange creator Don’t Nod is facing a serious cash crisis
Don’t Nod helped make quiet, emotional games feel bigger than their budgets. Life is Strange turned teenage friendship, grief, music, and one impossible power into a story players still talk about yea...
Xbox Game Studios boss exits as studio fears keep growing
Xbox did not need another reason for developers to feel nervous. The company is already dealing with layoff fears, studio closure reports, and a first-party lineup that looks more uncertain every week...
South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games is reportedly in trouble at Xbox
South of Midnight was the kind of Xbox game people kept asking for. It was not another giant shooter, another racing sequel, or another safe franchise bet. It was strange, stylish, rooted in Southern ...
Xbox’s studio crisis now reportedly reaches Ninja Theory and Double Fine
Xbox’s big studio-buying era was sold as protection. Smaller teams would get money, stability, Game Pass visibility, and enough room to make the kinds of games that usually struggle inside a blockbust...
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is free right when it needs new players most
The easiest time to ignore a huge Ubisoft RPG is before you have played it. Maybe the map looks too big. Maybe the discourse got tiring. Maybe Assassin’s Creed Shadows looked interesting, but not inte...
Assassin’s Creed Shadows gets one last shot at a proper goodbye
Ubisoft has one last opportunity to make Naoe and Yasuke’s ending feel complete. Assassin’s Creed Shadows already gave players a huge version of Japan to stalk, climb, burn through, and argue about, b...
Zelda fan spots a clever link between Ocarina of Time and later games
Zelda fans can make a whole week out of three seconds of footage, and honestly, that is part of the fun. Nintendo barely showed young Link in the new The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, but p...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is finally ditching the paid shortcuts players hated
Dragon’s Dogma 2 was built to make travel awkward, danger inconvenient, and bad decisions memorable. Then players opened the store at launch and saw Capcom selling shortcuts beside a $70 single-player...
Ghost of Yōtei is winning the PS5 sales fight by a huge margin
PlayStation had two very different prestige games carrying its single-player image last year. One sent players across a snowy, blood-soaked revenge story with a sword at the center. The other asked th...
Dead by Daylight saved Art the Clown for one last anniversary scare
Dead by Daylight spent its 10th anniversary acting like a horror fan who knows exactly when to turn the lights off. The stream had already thrown plenty at players, from Jason Voorhees finally steppin...