From'beef' to'bare', it's safe to say that many members of Generation Z have their own language. Now, a Harvard-trained linguistics expert has revealed how Gen Z (those born in the late 1990s and early 2000s) have started to use video game terms. Just as previous generations have used sports metaphors as part of everyday language, video games are now becoming part of how young people understand the world, according to Adam Aleksic. So whether you're being called an NPC, getting asked'where we dropping?', Thankfully, help is at hand, as we've compiled a list of some of the most common video game terms - and what they mean in Gen Z's modern dictionary. To reduce in power or make worse, usually to make things more balanced.

New IPs are a rarity in our current age of sequels, and new exclusive IPs are almost unicorns at this point, as it's become unusual for a brand to attempt to create new iconic franchises when everything is cross-platform. But that's what Guerrilla Games has tried to do for Sony with Horizon Zero Dawn, and after playing the game for 30 hours, I'm going to say they've succeeded. Horizon Zero Dawn is a radical departure for Guerrilla, best known for the Killzone series, which has always been a PlayStation staple, but not exactly a stand-out entry in the overly-crowded shooter genre dominated by Call of Duty, Battlefield and the like. Switching to an open world title isn't exactly blazing some bold new path either at this point, as the genre is well-established and some would even say oversaturated at this point. In many ways, Horizon Zero Dawn can feel like a lot of what's come before.