Hello everyone.
E3 is right around the corner and I wanted to hit on a few things about submissions during the time of E3. Before that, I wanted to announce an addition to the moderation team:
Please welcome Geobros - http://n4g.com/user/home/Ge... - to the N4G moderation team. Geobros has been a long time contributor, knows the ropes, and has agreed to help us in keeping the submissions area working the way it should.
Just an update, you can see a list of moderators on N4G from here: http://n4g.com/users/index/...
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Now, onto those E3 items. Please note the following items as they will affect submissions during E3:
* Moderators will be approving the first acceptable submissions during the big conference periods so as to get the news out quickly and to have a reference point for determining duplicates.
* Round ups are not allowed. This is a common rule on N4G, but it needs to be stated here. Any submission rounding up a conference will be failed. Any video or opinion piece that is really just recanting of the news from a conference will be failed. These rules already stand, but I feel it needs to be reinforced during E3 considering how many we tend to get.
* One or two line submissions made to just beat fully written out submissions on the announcement of a new game or similar bits of news will be failed on the spot. We consider those to be placeholders and not actual news pieces. This doesn't mean you have to have every bit of news on a piece of news, but it does mean you need to do more than just tell us a game is announced.
* Submissions with videos recorded from the live streams, such as new trailers, will have the videos updated to official trailers once they are made available on YouTube or similar streaming services. Reposting of trailers once they are officially made available is unnecessary unless they were not posted previously or contain new content.
* Screen grabs of press conference videos will not be allowed as their own content element (screenshots or images). If it's a trailer and you just post screen grabs to get the content to N4G before the trailer gets here, it will be failed. If it's screen grabs that you are using to emphasize a bit of news, that is fine.
* Official announcements posted to Xbox.com, the PS Blog, or similar sources may be edited into existing submissions as credit URLs.
* Many submissions that add a little bit of news to an existing submission will be noted as needing to be added as an alternative source. Determination of this need will be made by the moderators as usual. This isn't anything new, but with the many submissions being made, felt it was important to emphasize.
* Going into E3 and during E3, moderators will be doing their best to keep submissions down in number. It may take away from the ability for others to approve, but will help us to keep the submission queue as clean as possible during the big days of E3.
* We will not be harsh nor will we be lenient in handing out submissions restrictions during E3. If you constantly post duplicative items, especially long after they were already submitted, or quick, one-line, placeholder submissions, you may likely receive a restriction.
* Replies to tickets relating to submissions may not be responded to in a timely manner, especially during actual press conferences. Most moderators at that time will be focused on heavy comment and submission moderation and not necessarily to replying to tickets or PMs. We will get to them, just give us some time.
Thank you,
Christopher
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Man, what sucks about being a mod on a site like this is that during events like E3 is that the event doesn't get your undivided attention because you have to make sure people aren't flooding the site with submissions that are against the rules. Can't be easy. But then, every E3 has moments during the pressers where there's a game or games you really couldn't care less about and that's a perfect time to see what's going on.
Personally speaking, were I mod, that time for me would be any instance of Aisha Tyler speaking. Or generally most of Ubisoft, EA, or Activision's conferences. Assuming they have them. And Sony's incessant indie push.
The one thing I don't like about E3 when it comes to this site, and it's unavoidable to be sure, is that when a story that says "*insert company*'s Press Conference begins at *insert time* watch here" the comments are always first "I hope for ____" and "I want ____" and then the when the conference actually starts, all the comments talking about the actual conference get buried by all the previous comments talking about what people hope to see.
That really can't be avoided unless Hava ever updated N4G with a live commenting system, but that would just make things even harder to control.
Congrats Geobros :D Hope you'll do great :D
Congratulations Geobros!!
I know you will keep doing the job perfectly
Cool.
During this time, i can imagine there will be many duplicate articles clogging up the drains that are already full of garbage from Kotaku, Polygon, Destructoid etc.
Good idea taking on a few extras, and i hope the rest of N4G does their part in reporting duplicates, and helping the mod team keep things tidy.
Just going to add this in for mods sanity. If you send in a ticket instead of a pm you may get a faster reply because any Mod can see and handle them, compare to just a single person.