Editorial policy
This site covers a game almost nobody has played. Most of what circulates about it is somebody's guess wearing the clothes of a fact, so here is exactly how we tell the two apart.
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The three labels
Every claim about the game on this site carries one of three labels, and the label is not decoration. It is the whole product.
Confirmed means the information came from Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive, or a platform holder such as Sony or Microsoft, publishing it themselves. The link to that source sits on the page, next to the claim. If you cannot click through to the original, it is not confirmed.
Rumored means somebody credible published it and we tell you who, with a link. A rumor never gets written as though it were settled, never appears in a heading as a statement of fact, and never gets promoted to confirmed because it has been repeated a lot. Repetition is not verification.
Unknown means nobody has announced it. We say so in a full sentence and we leave the hole visible. This is the label that costs the most traffic and it is the one we protect hardest, because the alternative is filling a gap with a plausible number, and a plausible number that turns out to be wrong is how a site like this loses the only thing it has.
What counts as a primary source
In descending order of weight.
- Rockstar Games Newswire, the official game site, or a Rockstar or Take-Two social account.
- A Take-Two Interactive earnings call, investor presentation, or filing.
- PlayStation Blog, Xbox Wire, or a storefront listing controlled by the platform holder.
- A named journalist at an established outlet, publishing original reporting rather than an aggregation of somebody else’s.
An aggregator repeating one of the above is not a source. We link to whoever published it first, even when a bigger outlet covered it later and would send us more traffic for the link.
Where facts live
Dates, prices, platforms, file sizes and edition contents live in a single data file, with a status, a source URL and the date the entry was last checked. Articles reference that file rather than restating the numbers, so a fact cannot be correct on one page and stale on another. The build fails if an article hard-codes a price or a date instead of referencing the data.
Every entry gets re-checked on a rolling basis. An entry that has not been checked in thirty days is flagged automatically before it can quietly rot.
Corrections
When we get something wrong we fix it on the page, and we say what changed and when, at the bottom of that page. We do not silently edit a claim and carry on. We do not delete a piece to make an error disappear.
If you find a mistake, tell us and include the URL. A correction that arrives with a source attached gets handled the same day.
What we will not do
We do not publish a rumor without naming who published it first. We do not write a headline the body does not deliver. We do not run a story purely because a competitor ran it, and a day with nothing worth publishing gets nothing published.
We do not accept payment to cover a topic, to place a product, or to change a verdict. Where we earn a commission on a link, that is disclosed above the recommendation, not buried in a footer.
Who is responsible
Every page on this site is written and checked by Javier Marín, who is the editor and the person accountable for the data. There are no ghost bylines here, no invented staff, and no articles credited to an editorial team that does not exist.
Automation helps find candidate stories and drafts a first pass. Nothing reaches this site without a person reading it and approving it. That line does not move.