🔍The Fact-Check Desk

Every big game generates a flood of 'news,' and most of it is one of three very different things wearing the same headline. The desk's actual taxonomy for telling them apart.

A correction isn't an embarrassment to bury — it's the single most trust-building thing a source can publish. The case for a visible corrections culture, from the desk that lives in it.

Trailers and official reveals aren't just hype — read carefully, they're the primary sources of what a game actually is, and they answer questions people are paying leakers for.

A rumor about an unreleased game almost never appears from nowhere — it has a lineage, and tracing that lineage tells you almost everything about whether to believe it.