Names for the number 0 in English no authoritative evidence that there has ever been any such word in Scots in the first place. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of the word "love" in English to mean "zero" was to define how a game was to be played, rather than the score in the game itself. Gambling games could be played for stakes (money) or "for love (of the game)", i.e. for zero stakes. The first such recorded usage quoted in the OED was in 1678. The shift in meaning from "zero stakes" to "zero score" is not an enormous conceptual leap, and
Zero (game engine) Zero (game engine) Zero is a proprietary game engine created by Pandemic Studios. It was used first in the game "" and later used in several "Star Wars" games including the popular "Battlefront" series. "Battlezone II: Combat Commander" and "Dark Reign 2" both feature an in-engine editor accessible via commands. The engine was revamped for "" to accommodate consoles and third person gameplay. The engine was again retooled for "" and the level editor was made a separate entity from the game engine. A set of modding tools including ZeroEdit, the new level creation tool, were released for use with