Hello, everyone.
I wanted to stop in and remind people that, per the N4G Submission Guidelines -- https://n4g.com/articles/ou... and scroll down to Submission Tutorial -- N4G requires linking to the most original source of news when possible for news. This means that posts made by developers and publishers on social media and forums that otherwise meet our other guidelines should be used. Patch notes from Steam and official news on the game sites, such sources should also be used for news of game updates and events. Furthermore, if the source isn't a source that can be originally sourced, you need to credit that source using the Credit URL option when submitting content.
This information should not be new to most of our long-time contributors. We've been really lenient for a long time and have been making corrections as we find them, but we will start handing out restrictions for those who have had warnings about this guideline item because it has become apparent that people are ignoring the guideline.
N4G is reliant on its original sourcing guidelines. It's what we use to make sure sites don't take your content as their own and prevents the same from every other source. It keeps things fair for those who create content.
Thank you for reading,
Christopher
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "While not carrying the same heft it enjoyed long ago, last year was one of the adventure genre's most commercially-successful years in this century. A Telltale-esque adventure eclipsing 3 million sales in three months would be the talk of the town were it not for another adventure game hurdling over 10 million sales in two. Though not all finalists reached those heights, each did share a greater amount of spotlight compared to similar titles within their respective sub-genres.
Past any sales thresholds and popularity contests, 2025 also deserves credit for its creativity; the last time our entire shortlist consisted exclusively of new IPs was for Best Adventure Game of 2020. An impressive year for the genre, with even greater potential ahead."
Inti Creates’ vibrant action platformer Majogami will shed its Switch console exclusivity and strike PS5 on 28th May, the Japanese dev has announced.
Bandai Namco announced today that its popular flight simulator-lite Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has passed another sales milestone.
I don't want to dig up dirt or call anyone out, but was my report on this one right or wrong, and if right, was it the submitter that 'corrected' it? If so, seems like there a few broken processes here.
If I'm in the wrong, then I accept it.
https://n4g.com/news/264246...
i feel like these guidelines are sometimes really unclear, because theres too many possibilities as to how devs for example put their information out.
like, do i put in the french source? or do i google translate into english first ?
is reddit a viable source?
can i put in a german article that comes our hours before they come out on american sites? due to the timezone differences? do i google translate that?
are videos sources? what if theres no source but it makes the rounds online?
what is considered a rumour?
what is considered news? opinions?
there's too many variations, variables that dont get mention at all.
i think the guidelines need abit of an overhaul and cover some of them different things.
imo.
Very nice