How we check facts
A wrong answer on launch day wastes your evening. These are the rules every page here follows.
Every claim has a source
We start from primary pages: Rockstar Games and Take-Two, PlayStation and Xbox support and store pages, ESRB and PEGI. When a fact exists only in press reports, the page says Reported and names the outlet. Each source in the list says what it confirms.
Two dates
Checked is the last day we re-read the sources for that page. Updated appears only when the text of the answer changed. We do not move dates to make a page look fresh.
How often we re-check
| Kind of fact | How often |
|---|---|
| Stock, prices, server status | Daily during launch week |
| Patches, bundles, store listings | Weekly |
| Ratings, platforms, console storage rules | When the source changes |
What we do not publish
- Leaks, datamined files and story spoilers before release.
- Rumours without a named source.
- Numbers we calculated without saying so: when a figure is our own arithmetic, the page shows the inputs.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we fix the page and the Updated date shows when. If the mistake changed the answer, the page says what changed.
How we use AI tools
We use AI tools to find questions people ask, to draft pages and to prepare graphics. Every fact, number and link is checked against the listed sources before a page goes live, and a page is not published if its claim cannot be traced to a source.