About JoyrideBay
One game, covered properly, for readers in the United States. No wire copy, no invented staff, and no number on this site that cannot be traced back to whoever announced it.
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What this site is
JoyrideBay covers one game and the run-up to its release. Not the industry, not every open-world game, not whatever happens to be trending. One subject, tracked properly, for players in the United States.
The reason for that narrowness is simple. There are hundreds of sites that will tell you what happened today across forty games. There are very few that will tell you, on one page, what is actually known about this one, what is still a rumor, and what nobody has said at all.
Why every fact carries a label
Nobody outside the studio has played this game. That means almost everything written about it is a projection, an inference, or somebody’s guess that got repeated until it started to sound settled.
So on this site every claim about the game is marked. Confirmed means it came from the studio, the publisher or a platform holder, with the link on the page. Rumored means somebody credible said it and we name them. Unknown means nobody has announced it, and we leave the hole visible instead of filling it with a plausible number.
The unknowns are the ones that matter. Filling them in is how a site gets traffic this month and gets caught next month, and we would rather have the second thing than the first. The full method is in the editorial policy.
Where the facts live
Dates, platforms, prices and edition contents are held in one data file with a source and a last-checked date attached to each entry, and the articles read from it. That means a fact cannot be right on one page and stale on another, and an entry that has not been re-checked in a month gets flagged automatically.
What we build
Alongside the written pages there are tools, because some questions are better answered by something you can use than by a paragraph. A live countdown. A launch-day checklist. A map that gets built out as regions are confirmed. They are free, they carry no advertising, and they are the part of this site we are most interested in.
Who writes it
Javier Marín, and only Javier Marín. There is no editorial team, no rotating cast of contributors, and no bylines belonging to people who do not exist. Software helps find stories and drafts a first pass; nothing is published without a person reading it and approving it.
How it pays for itself
Two ways, both disclosed.
Some sections carry display advertising, labelled as advertising. The buying guides and the tools carry none.
The buying guides contain affiliate links, which earn a commission when somebody buys through them at no extra cost to the reader. Nobody pays to be recommended, nobody sees a guide before it is published, and where the honest answer is not to buy anything, that is what the page says. The details are in the affiliate disclosure.
What we are not
We are not the publisher of the game, and we have no relationship with them. That is set out in full in the trademark notice.
If you spot an error, send it over with the page address. Corrections get made on the page, dated, and left visible.