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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Studio Wildcard is making ARK modding much easier with ARK Maker
Most ARK players have had at least one ridiculous idea they were never going to build. A floating dinosaur arena. A custom island full of traps. A survival map made entirely for their friends to suffe...
ARK had a busy IGN Live showing, and the biggest reveal was not ARK 2
ARK fans went into IGN Live 2026 hoping for the kind of reveal that would finally make the franchise’s future feel less scattered. What they got was not a huge ARK 2 blowout, but it may still be one o...
Minecraft looks like it is finally getting a Nintendo Switch 2 version
There are games you buy once, play for a while, and leave behind. Then there is Minecraft, which somehow keeps following players from one console generation to the next, carrying old worlds, old purch...
Minecraft Dungeons II finally has a date, and it knows exactly what kind of game it wants to be
Some games need a huge reinvention to justify coming back. Minecraft Dungeons II probably does not. The first game worked because it understood the assignment: take the cozy block world everyone under...
Madden NFL 27 is officially coming to Nintendo Switch 2
Madden NFL being on Nintendo hardware again is starting to look like a real commitment, not a one-season test. EA SPORTS has confirmed Madden NFL 27 for Nintendo Switch 2, keeping the football series ...
Madden NFL 27 on Switch 2 already feels like a better football fit
There is something different about playing Madden NFL 27 on Switch 2 when the game stops feeling like a compromise and starts feeling like a normal way to play football. That has not always been true ...
NBA 2K has a monetization problem it can no longer dribble around
There is a familiar moment in NBA 2K now where the basketball fades into the background. You are not thinking about a clean jumper, a smart defensive stop, or building your player into a star. You are...
NBA The Run already has one advantage, NBA 2K badly needs
Sometimes basketball games forget how good basketball feels when nothing gets in the way. No slow climb through upgrade screens. No pressure to buy currency. No feeling that the fun is waiting behind ...
EA Sports College Football 27 launches July 9 with PC finally joining the lineup
EA Sports College Football 27 is giving the series something fans have been asking for since its comeback: a proper PC release. The next entry launches July 9 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and P...
EA SPORTS FC fans are waiting to see if the game can call another World Cup final
Every World Cup has its usual pre-tournament noise: pundit picks, supercomputer tables, bold fan predictions, and someone insisting this is finally England’s year. Somewhere in that mix, EA Sports FC ...
Epic shows Unreal Engine 6 for the first time with a new-look Rocket League
Rocket League has spent years being one of Epic’s strangest success stories: a fast modern esport still running on very old technology. That makes it the perfect game to show what Unreal Engine 6 can ...
F1 25 2026 Season Pack is live, bringing the sport’s new era into the game
F1 25 is not getting replaced by a separate F1 26 this year, and now players can see why. EA SPORTS has launched the 2026 Season Pack worldwide, turning last year’s game into the home for Formula 1’s ...
Marvel’s Wolverine gameplay looks more brutal than anyone expected
Marvel’s Wolverine finally looks like the game fans hoped Insomniac was making. The new gameplay demo does not treat Logan like a cleaner, safer superhero. It lets him fight like a man with adamantium...
Ed Boon says more Mortal Kombat is coming, but Injustice 3 fans are still waiting
Ed Boon has once again given NetherRealm fans just enough to start arguing over what comes next. The Mortal Kombat co-creator says the studio is “definitely pursuing another Mortal Kombat game,” which...
Tekken 8 director Kohei Ikeda leaves Bandai Namco after 20 years
Tekken 8 is already trying to win back players after a rough stretch, and now the series has lost another major name behind the scenes. Kohei “Nakatsu” Ikeda, the game director for Tekken 7 and Tekken...
Tekken 8 is adding Yujiro Hanma from Baki, and it feels like the right kind of chaos
Tekken 8 has been surrounded by a lot of heavy conversation lately, but this is the kind of reveal that cuts through the noise fast. Yujiro Hanma from Baki is joining the roster as a Season 3 DLC figh...
Tekken 8 has been overtaken by Street Fighter 6, and the shift is hard to ignore
Tekken 8 did not lose players because the fighting suddenly stopped being exciting. At its best, it is still loud, fast, and brutal in a way few fighting games can match. The problem is that a great m...
Street Fighter 6 DLC Predictions: Returning Characters With the Best Shot
Street Fighter 6 is in a strong place right now, but Capcom still has plenty of fan-favorite fighters waiting outside the roster. Year 3 already has Sagat, C. Viper, Alex, and Ingrid, which gives the ...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 reveal is close as Korea tease confirms the leaks were right
Call of Duty fans spent months picking through leaks about a new Modern Warfare set around Korea. Now the official reveal has caught up. Activision has confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and th...
Call of Duty 2026 is bringing Modern Warfare back with Infinity Ward in charge
Call of Duty is going back to Modern Warfare in 2026, and Infinity Ward is not treating it like another routine annual entry. The studio has confirmed it is making what it calls “the definitive Modern...
PlayerUnknown’s first major game since PUBG is going free, but the news is not good
The first big game from PlayerUnknown after PUBG should have felt like the start of a new chapter. Instead, Prologue: Go Wayback! is becoming free because its studio can no longer keep building it the...
Overwatch Stadium has had a messy first year, but it gave the game something it needed
Overwatch Stadium could have felt like another mode players tried for a week and forgot. Instead, it became one of the few recent Overwatch 2 additions that actually changed how people think about the...
PUBG creator Brendan Greene is downsizing his studio and stopping work on Prologue: Go Wayback!
Brendan Greene’s first major game after PUBG is ending on a difficult note. Prologue: Go Wayback! was supposed to be the first playable step toward a much larger survival vision, but PlayerUnknown Pro...
Overwatch is making its rarest anniversary reward easier to earn
Overwatch players wanted the 10th anniversary event to feel like a celebration, but one reward quickly turned into a grind that felt way too demanding. Blizzard is now changing the requirements for th...
Sea of Thieves custom servers are now coming to everyone for free
Sea of Thieves has always worked best when players make their own stories. A normal session can turn into a race, a betrayal, a fishing trip, a roleplay night, or a full naval war without Rare needing...
Rainbow Six Siege Nations Cup 2026 confirms Brazil, France, and more major teams
Rainbow Six Siege is getting a proper country-vs-country tournament, and the first half of the field already looks dangerous. The Esports Nations Cup 2026 has confirmed 12 direct invites, with Brazil,...
Sea of Thieves is changing its seasonal plan and making Custom Seas free
Sea of Thieves is getting one of its biggest course corrections in years. Rare used its latest Community Direct to confirm that it is moving away from the three-act season structure, after the format ...
Marvel Rivals gets a major DLSS 4 upgrade for smoother PC matches
Marvel Rivals is at its best when everything is happening at once. Heroes are flying across the map, ultimates are going off, walls are breaking, and teams are trying to win fights in the middle of al...
Marvel Rivals is turning 2026 into a road to Doomsday
Marvel Rivals is giving players something bigger to follow through 2026 than a normal event calendar. NetEase has revealed the Path to Doomsday roadmap, a run of special events built around Avengers h...
Rainbow Six Siege reportedly came close to being pulled from Steam
Rainbow Six Siege is still available on Steam, but newly surfaced court documents suggest it once came much closer to disappearing than players knew. The report claims Valve threatened to remove every...
Resident Evil 4 Remake: How to solve the Lake Door puzzles
Chapter 4 is where Resident Evil 4 Remake briefly stops being about survival and starts testing how well you can read cave walls. After the Del Lago fight, Leon needs two stone heads from shrines arou...
Rayman Origins: Enhanced Edition leaks with a price tag nobody is meant to pay
Rayman Origins may be coming back, but the leak that gave it away is almost funnier than the reveal itself. A listing for Rayman Origins: Enhanced Edition briefly appeared on the Xbox Store with a pri...
Pokopia player turns fossils into a museum idea everyone will want to steal
Pokopia players are already finding ways to make their villages feel more personal, and one fan has found a perfect use for fossils that goes beyond basic collecting. Instead of leaving them as simple...
007 First Light gets its first patch, but the bugs are not very Bond-worthy
007 First Light has its first post-launch update, and the patch notes are almost disappointingly normal for a James Bond game. IO Interactive has fixed crashes, NPC pathing issues, dialogue problems, ...
The Outer Worlds free upgrade turned into a mess for some console players
The Outer Worlds was supposed to get a clean handoff into its newer Spacer’s Choice Edition. Instead, some players who bought the original sci-fi RPG expecting a free upgrade found themselves staring ...
Planet Zoo 2 finally lets players build proper aquariums and aviaries
Planet Zoo 2 is giving zoo builders the feature many fans have wanted since the first game: animals that truly belong above and below the old habitat limits. Frontier’s sequel launches on October 13, ...
Steam is getting a huge new historical shooter with Hell Let Loose: Vietnam
Players looking for a big historical shooter on Steam have something new to watch in June. Hell Let Loose: Vietnam launches on June 18, bringing the series’ 50v50 warfare into a setting built around j...
Forza Horizon 6 Autumn playlist gives players two Japanese icons to chase
Forza Horizon 6 is settling into Japan with its first Autumn playlist, and this week is built for players who love older Japanese cars. The “Welcome to Japan” season gives players a chance to unlock t...
Pragmata director wants a sequel, but Capcom has not made that call yet
Pragmata spent years as Capcom’s mystery game, then came back as one of 2026’s biggest surprises. Now that players have finally met Hugh and Diana, the next question is already here: could this become...
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced teams with Red Bull for a real-life Leap of Faith
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is bringing back Edward Kenway, the Jackdaw, and one of Ubisoft’s most loved pirate adventures. To mark that return, Ubisoft is doing something more unusual than a...
Donkey Kong 64 is finally joining Nintendo Switch Online
Donkey Kong 64 is coming back, and this is one of those Nintendo Switch Online drops that actually feels overdue. Rare’s 1999 collectathon has been one of the biggest missing names in the N64 library,...
Subnautica 2 launch may force Krafton into a $250 million payout
Subnautica 2 is not just a huge survival game launch anymore. It may also decide one of the year’s biggest developer payout fights. After a massive early access debut, Unknown Worlds appears to be in ...
Fallout 4 update gives console players a lot more room for Creations
Fallout 4 just got one of its most useful console updates in years. Bethesda has raised the storage limit for Creations, which means players can install more community-made quests, weapons, armor, set...
Persona 6 leaks may have given fans their first real look at Atlus’ next big RPG
Persona fans have been waiting so long for Persona 6 that even a blurry leak can set the whole community on fire. Now a new batch of alleged character designs has appeared online, and the claims aroun...
No Man’s Sky Swarm update makes space feel dangerous again
No Man’s Sky players have spent years building bases, finding strange planets, and turning the galaxy into a personal playground. The Swarm update pushes back against all that comfort. Hello Games has...
Fortnite x Porsche collab gets dragged after AI-looking art botches the basics
Fortnite and Porsche had the kind of crossover that should have been easy to sell. A luxury car brand, a massive game, and an Unreal Engine-powered configurator is a clean fit on paper. Instead, the p...
The Last of Us gets new official Powerlines art for collectors
The Last of Us fans are still waiting to see what Naughty Dog does next with the series, but the latest official release is a quieter one. Powerlines, a new fine art print based on The Last of Us Part...
The Witcher 3 is getting a new DLC, and Geralt’s quiet ending is no longer the end
Blood and Wine gave him one of gaming’s rare peaceful goodbyes, letting players leave him in Toussaint after years of monsters, politics, curses, and bad choices. That is why CD Projekt Red’s new anno...
Metal Gear Solid 4 finally looks ready to escape the PS3
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has been stuck on PS3 for so long that many fans treated a modern release like a wish, not a real plan. Now Konami has shown the first gameplay from Metal Gear...
Jason Voorhees brings a disappearing act to Dead by Daylight
Jason Voorhees is finally joining Dead by Daylight, and Behaviour has found a simple way to make him feel like the slasher fans remember. His power lets him vanish from the map, stalk survivors withou...