Javier Marín

What I do here

I write and edit every page on JoyrideBay, and I maintain the data file that the pages read their facts from. When something on this site says a date is confirmed, I am the person who opened the source and checked it. When something is wrong, I am the person who got it wrong.

There is nobody else. No contributing team, no freelancers, no bylines invented to make a one-person site look larger than it is.

Background

I have spent twelve years as an independent developer, building and shipping mobile apps for iOS and Android and running the marketing behind them. That work is mostly about two things that turn out to matter here as well.

The first is release dates. Shipping software teaches you quickly why dates move, what a delay announcement actually signals, and how far in advance a company knows something before it says it out loud. Most coverage of a delayed game treats the slip as a surprise. It usually is not.

The second is reading a storefront properly. Editions, bundles, regional pricing, pre-order terms and what a platform holder will and will not commit to in writing are the daily material of publishing an app. Applied to a game launch, it is the difference between repeating a retailer’s placeholder listing and understanding why it is a placeholder.

I am not a former games journalist and I do not pretend to be one. What I bring instead is the discipline of checking a primary source before repeating it, and the willingness to publish the word unknown on the pages where a competitor would publish a guess.

How I work

Every fact about the game lives in one file, with the source URL and the date I last checked it. Articles reference that file rather than restating numbers, so nothing can be current on one page and stale on another. Entries get re-checked on a schedule, and anything left unchecked for a month gets flagged before it can rot.

Software helps me find candidate stories and drafts a first pass. It does not publish. Every piece is read and approved by me before it goes live, which is a deliberate limit on how fast this site can move and the main thing separating it from a content farm.

The full method, including what counts as a primary source and how corrections are handled, is in the editorial policy.

Corrections and contact

If I have got something wrong, I want to know, and a correction with a source attached gets handled the same day. The fix goes on the page, dated, and stays visible.

Reach me through the contact page. More about the site itself is on the about page.