If you’ve been to a computer game store recently, you may have noticed a trend: There are a surprising number of new PC games with the word “tycoon” in their titles. Then again, one of the most ...

I realized I'd hit rock bottom when I got this text message: "I fed a giraffe and then it might have had a baby." The text was from Chao, one of Vox Media's support managers. Apparently she'd fed my ...

Frontier Developers is aiming to make the animals and zoos of the new Zoo Tycoon the most beautiful and lifelike of any previous Zoo title, the developers told Polygon during a demo of the title at ...

Marina DelGreco has been a gamer ever since she can remember. Her earliest memory of any video game was some Tarzan game for her PC that she remembers having a hard time beating. Her gaming wheelhouse ...

The game offers a lot of freedom in the way you can play, whether you’d like to work your way through preset campaign modes or create an entirely chaotic zoo. Zoo Tycoon has also had resilience in ...

After years of rumors and player speculation, Planet Zoo 2 is officially on the horizon. Frontier Developments is preparing a ...

A 2001 video game allowed fans to create and run their own zoo — and the same beloved video game could soon be becoming a board game. Treecer, which makes creative, sustainable products in Switzerland ...

Of all the tycoon games available on the PC and home consoles, Zoo Tycoon is probably about the easiest one to translate to the Nintendo DS. The concept of the game is simple enough to be shrunk down ...

It's no secret that I wasn't Zoo Tycoon's biggest fan. While the idea of running a zoo is certainly appealing, it wasn't exactly exciting. While I can't say it's perfect or really that much more ...

Chris is the former Editor of Pocket-lint. He has been a technology journalist since 2008 and has covered the rise of Android and reviewed just about every important device along the way. Chris lives ...

"Create the zoo of your dreams," reads the back of the Zoo Tycoon box. This is an exciting prospect. In the zoo of my dreams, visitors ride around on kangaroos. The gift shop is run by talking bears.

It was about this time when a concept solidified in my mind which I've never quite shook. I was at a major British Zoo - at the time, one of the more dismal places I'd visited in my life - on a ...