About Zen Network

Who publishes this site

Zen Network is published by KLARA Office s.r.o., a company registered in the Czech Republic. Our full details are below and appear in the footer of every page on this site.

We are a small publisher rather than a newsroom. There is no invented masthead here, no roster of named experts and no stock photography of a team that does not exist. Where content carries attribution at all, it is attributed to the Zen Network editorial team and nothing more.

What we set out to do

The category we cover — online combat games — is enormous, easy to enter and surprisingly easy to misjudge. A game can be free to install yet full of optional spending, popular yet carrying a classification a parent would want to check, and enjoyable yet built around an account that is worth stealing. Our aim is to explain that landscape calmly, so that an Australian player, or the parent of one, can make informed decisions before installing anything or entering a payment detail.

We try to write the kind of background you would want from a knowledgeable friend who has no stake in what you decide: what a term means, what a rule actually says, what tends to go wrong, and where to turn when it does. Everything here should be useful even if you never click a single link to a product.

Our editorial method

Our approach is deliberately plain. We explain the category in general, non-commercial terms; we describe how these games are structured and sold; and we point to the Australian government bodies that can help when something goes wrong. Where we cover a specific product, we describe it using information the provider states, we label it as a description rather than a recommendation, and we disclose any commercial relationship openly and repeatedly.

We do not publish scored reviews, reader stories, testimonials or claims we cannot attribute to a source. We avoid urgency and pressure entirely: there are no countdowns, no "limited spots", no warnings designed to rush a decision. If a page ever reads as advertising wearing the clothes of advice, it has failed the standard we set for ourselves.

How we choose what to cover — honestly

This is the part many sites leave vague, so we will be specific. Our coverage of specific products is limited to those our publisher has a commercial relationship with. That is an honest, narrow scope, and we would rather state it plainly than imply a broad independence we do not have. It means:

• We are not a comprehensive survey of every game on the market, and we do not present ourselves as one.
• The general guides — on the category, classification, spending, security and the free-to-play model — are written to be useful regardless of any commercial relationship, and they contain no affiliate links within the explanatory text.
• Where a product does appear, its presence reflects a commercial arrangement, which we disclose on the page itself, beside the link, and on our dedicated disclosure page.

What the commercial relationship does not do is decide the facts we state, the cautions we include, or the order in which anything is presented. Our general guidance would read exactly the same with every product link removed.

The commercial side

Zen Network is free to read and is funded through affiliate arrangements. When we link to a game provider and you register through that link, the provider may pay us a commission. This never changes the price you pay, and it never changes what we write. We explain the arrangement in full — who pays us, and what it does and does not influence — on our affiliate disclosure page, and we repeat a short version of it next to every affiliate link on the site.

How we handle facts and sources

Where we state a general fact about Australian rules or consumer rights, we link to the primary source — a regulator or government body — rather than ask you to take our word for it. For classification we point to the Australian Classification Board; for consumer rights, the ACCC; for online safety, the eSafety Commissioner; for scams, Scamwatch; for security, the Australian Cyber Security Centre; and for privacy, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Where a rule is changing or a specific figure would date quickly, we deliberately send you to the source rather than freeze an answer that might mislead.

Reaching us

We collect nothing through this site — there is no form, no newsletter and no account. If you want to reach us, whether to point out an error or to ask a question, email info@zennetwork.online. Our contact page explains how we handle correspondence.