Zenless Zone Zero (PS5) News Articles
Monday19th Oct 2026
News 'Gooner Game' Zenless Zone Zero Gets an Age Rating Increase on PS5
But only in Europe for now
Zenless Zone Zero’s age rating has increased on the PS5 in Europe, from PEGI 12 to PEGI 16. The change is likely to reflect the current content in the game, although there’s been no alterations in the US (where it’s rated Teen) or on the App Store (where it’s 13+). In the disclaimers section, there are references...
Sunday19th Jul 2026
News Two of PS5's Biggest Games Will Crossover This Winter
HoYoverse cinematic universe
Zenless Zone Zero will celebrate its second anniversary with v3.1, launching later this month on 29th July. But while the usual array of free pulls (up to 30 this year) has me feeling happy, it’s confirmation of a crossover event with Honkai: Star Rail that’s got me particularly hyped. While the exact nature of the...
Saturday6th Jun 2026
News Zenless Zone Zero v3.0 Adds New City, New Form, and Free Pulls on PS5
Update arrives on 17th June
An entirely new city, and all the subsequent activities that entails, will debut when Zenless Zone Zero’s free v3.0 update arrives on 17th June. With the stakes ever-rising for Phaethon, the protagonist will finally unlock their combat alter-ego Pyoris in this version, with its full Mindscape and signature W-Engine set...
Friday5th Jun 2026
News Zenless Zone Zero's Gorgeous New City Revealed Early After Major Leak
Roscaelifer awaits
An extremely unfortunate leak has forced HoYoverse to upend its carefully coordinated marketing plans for new Zenless Zone Zero region, Roscaelifer. Those of you on social media will know one website accidentally published a 10-minute gameplay demonstration of the “city in the sky” earlier this week, which immediately went...
Thursday30th Apr 2026
News Zenless Zone Zero Fires Back at NTE with Stunning Season 3 Reveal Trailer
Anything you can do
There’s a new urban gacha game vying for your attention, but Zenless Zone Zero is not going down without a fight. Hot on the heels of NTE’s release yesterday, HoYoverse has rebounded with an animated teaser trailer, introducing its Season 3 update. This is due out in June, and will introduce an entirely new location, the...
Tuesday24th Mar 2026
Sure, go on then
Love them or loathe them, live service games lend themselves well to digital downloads because, well, they constantly change. Take a game like Zenless Zone Zero: at launch it was a kind of roguelike-style menu-based visual novel with action segments. These days it’s more like a traditional adventure game. But that’s not...
Saturday31st Jan 2026
Including a free monthly pass
All the way back when Zenless Zone Zero first released, HoYoverse teased idol group Angels of Delusion. And now, some 18 or so months later, they’re here. The next update, Encore for an Old Dream, will launch from 6th February. The group, who’ve appeared in recent events, will feature as part of a new lower-stakes...
Wednesday24th Dec 2025
"Whenever there’s work to be done – boom, overtime"
A new Zenless Zone Zero clip touching on the topic of overtime has once again raised questions about the sustainability of crunch. While the video, taken from the latest behind-the-scenes ZTALK, is presented in a light-hearted fashion – with goofy music and jovial vibes – it flags the real...
Friday19th Dec 2025
News Zenless Zone Zero's Milestone Update Is One of the Most Generous in Gacha Gaming History
This is gooner be good
Zenless Zone Zero does appear to be the ugly duckling of HoYoverse’s gacha trilogy, often losing out to juggernauts Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail on the Sensor Tower revenue charts. But for the game’s many millions of fans that just means more and more rewards, and v2.5 – launching on 30th December – is a bit...
Friday12th Dec 2025
News Zenless Zone Zero Teases Its Idol Faction Angels of Delusion in Game Awards Trailer
Aura farming
Ever since Zenless Zone Zero released last year, fans have been waiting patiently for the introduction of idol faction the Angels of Delusion. And here they are, glimpsed at the very end of this v2.5 teaser trailer. The trio will be introduced at some point in 2026, but won’t be playable just yet, as the title’s next update will...
Wednesday27th Aug 2025
News Zenless Zone Zero Settles Down After an Action Packed Summer with Smaller PS5 Update
And breathe
The last Zenless Zone Zero update was a bit of a monster, with a new storyline, summer activities, and even an autochess minigame. Things are a little lighter in v2.2, which is scheduled to release on 4th September. We suppose the highlights are the two new characters: Seed and Orphie. The former is interesting because she travels...
Friday4th Jul 2025
News It's All Sunshine and Rainbows in ZZZ's Summer Update, Here's the New Redemption Code
Fun in the sun
Zenless Zone Zero’s slathering on the sunscreen and heading to the Waifei Peninsula’s coastal Fantasy Resort for a spot of fun in the sun this 17th July. The next update for the gargantuan gacha will include two new playable characters, a slew of beach-themed minigames – including surfing! – and much, much more. But first,...
Wednesday28th May 2025
News Here's How Zenless Zone Zero Is Making One of Its Most Popular Characters Much More Powerful
Power creep? Pah
Power creep is a big problem in gacha games. Here’s the issue the genre faces: fans spend liberally on the characters they like, investing time and money into assembling squads capable of clearing the most difficult content. Then new avatars come along, disrupting the meta and rendering those older heroes redundant. It’s a big...
Friday23rd May 2025
It's a big'un
Zenless Zone Zero’s colossal anniversary update will release on 6th June, and will bring with it a frightening array of new content. But before we delve into the dozens of new details, you may want to grab the latest redemption code before it expires on 25th May: ZZZANNIVERSARY Okay, where to even begin with this one? Perhaps...
Tuesday20th May 2025
News These Awful PS5, PS4 Shovelware Games Are Getting More and More Shameless
Keep digging
The PS Store has a pretty serious problem with shovelware — but you probably knew that already. Granted, you typically have to go beyond the front page of Sony's digital marketplace to find the rot, but if you spend just a few minutes scrolling through the latest discounts, it won't take you long to stumble across some truly...
News Zenless Zone Zero's Sequel Sized PS5 Update Will Be Revealed This Week
You're the Yixuan we want
Zenless Zone Zero’s first anniversary is upon us, and so is its epic v2.0 update. If you follow HoYoverse’s other games, then you’ll know this is shaping up to be a milestone patch for the free-to-play affair. All will be revealed at 7PM PT on 23rd May. Thanks to a roadmap stream earlier in the year, we already know...
Wednesday16th Apr 2025
News Zenless Zone Zero's Wise-Cracking Protagonists Get Affordable Statues
You've gotta have Phaethon
There are video game collectibles that basically break the bank, like the new hyper-realistic Stellar Blade models – and then there are actually affordable ones. Pop Up Parade has built its business around offering high quality figurines which the average consumer can actually afford, and it’s just opened pre-orders...
Friday11th Apr 2025
News PS5's Zenless Zone Zero Adds a Parasol Wielding Waifu, Here's the Latest Redemption Code
Hugo boss
Zenless Zone Zero is definitely treading water ahead of its massive v2.0 seasonal overhaul, so cut it some slack while it recycles some content in v1.7, which is launching on 23rd April. Before we get into all of the details, you’ll probably want to redeem the newest redemption code, which will expire on 13th April. It is as follows:...
Tuesday8th Apr 2025
News Zenless Zone Zero Planning a Sequel Sized Update for PS5 Fave's First Anniversary
Gacha get up-to-date
Zenless Zone Zero’s massive v2.0 update will be arriving just in time for the game’s first anniversary, and it looks set to shake up the gacha in an impressive way. As part of an epic info drop, HoYoverse has announced that the main storyline will take Phaethon to the Waifei Peniunsula – and yes, we can already see users...
Monday7th Apr 2025
News Zenless Zone Zero's PS5 Console Exclusivity Is Coming to an End
Zen there was none
Sony had dibs on HoYoverse’s hottest new urban action RPG Zenless Zone Zero, but the title’s period of PS5 console exclusivity is coming to an end. After originally teasing an Xbox release in what many interpreted as an April Fool’s Day joke, now the Chinese developer has announced a livestream where it’ll officially...
Tuesday18th Mar 2025
Random Everyone's Talking About Cats' Testicles in Zenless Zone Zero on PS5
Even they jiggle now, too
Zenless Zone Zero is notorious for its, shall we say, buoyant anatomy. In a recent update for the HoYoverse gacha, there was controversy when the developer made it more difficult to peek up characters’ skirts. That decision was quickly reversed. Now everyone’s talking about the mog’s bollocks – credit to
Thursday13th Mar 2025
News As War on AI Rages, Two Zenless Zone Zero Stars Say They Were Replaced Without Prior Notice
Recast and removed
Two actors from gargantuan HoYoverse gacha Zenless Zone Zero say they found out about their replacements when patch notes for the game dropped alongside its latest update this week. Soldier 11 star Emeri Chase and Lycaon actor Nicholas Thurkettle have had all of their voice lines removed from the game and re-recorded by new...
Friday28th Feb 2025
News Launch Day Character Anby Gets a Makeover in Mega Zenless Zone Zero PS5 Update
Anby go again
It’s hard to find a hook for the latest Zenless Zone Zero update, because in reality this is just more of a very, very fun gacha game. But we suppose the biggest story is that Anby, the burger loving launch day character who appears on the game’s PS5 game tile, is getting a makeover. The character will be upgraded to a 5-Star in...
Monday13th Jan 2025
News Zenless Zone Zero Maintains Momentum with Massive PS5 Update
Astranomical
The previous Zenless Zone Zero update, v1.4, was pitched as a kind of soft reboot for the hit gacha game – and it was an enormous success. In addition to reworking the opening chapters of the campaign, it also introduced an epic story quest, centring on hugely popular Agent Miyabi. Now the HoYoverse team, fresh from topping gacha...
Thursday19th Dec 2024
News Zenless Zone Zero Dev Fixes Fading Upskirts in Under 24 Hours
The gooners gonna be alright
A big new Zenless Zone Zero update is available today, but discussion is not being dominated by the free S-Rank agent or new storyline structure. Reddit is instead overrun by complaints that you can no longer peek at panties. The official patch notes point out that “when viewed from specific angles, the agent will...
Friday13th Dec 2024
News HoYoverse Teases What's Next for PS5 Gacha Hits Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero
Lots to look forward to
Two new trailers for PS5 gacha sensations Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero were released during The Game Awards, although for some reason Chinese juggernaut HoYoverse has failed to share the videos on its official channels. Nevertheless, we’ve sourced a couple of mirrors for you to watch. First up is a new look...
Wednesday11th Dec 2024
News Zenless Zone Zero's Next PS5 Update Transforms the Flow of the Game
And adds more events than you can imagine
We liked Zenless Zone Zero a lot when it launched in July, and we’ve stuck with it in the five or so months since. But HoYoverse said it was committed to fan feedback, and it wasn’t kidding – it’s effectively transformed the game in the five or so months since. <related ids="175658"> One...
Friday25th Oct 2024
News Gigantic Zenless Zone Zero PS5 Update Brings More Wallet-Busting Waifus, Tons of Events
Zzz not possible with these updates
In terms of content, we’ve never seen anything quite like Zenless Zone Zero. While the initial launch of Honkai: Star Rail was no slouch, developer HoYoverse is really putting in the overtime with its urban fantasy RPG, as there’s simply an insane amount of things to do in the upcoming v1.3, which will launch...
Friday13th Sep 2024
News Biker Babes and Minigames Front PS5 Favourite Zenless Zone Zero's New Update
The ride of your life
God, these Zenless Zone Zero updates are epic at the moment. While we’re used to the unfathomable scale of HoYoverse’s games, we’re overawed by the sheer amount of events and activities the Chinese titan is adding to its urban fantasy RPG. The latest patch, Tour de Inferno, is coming on 25th September – and honestly,...
Friday23rd Aug 2024
News Popular Free PS5 Action RPG Zenless Zone Zero Teases New Region in Trailer
Back to the Wild Wild West
The fun never stops with HoYoverse, to be honest. If you’re playing any one of its three PS5 games – regardless of whether it’s Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, or Zenless Zone Zero – there’s always something new to look forward to. And while this trailer for the studio’s urban fantasy action RPG leans...
