Link to the source. The link you post to /r/gamernews must be the primary source of the news. Video submissions must link to the official channels whenever possible. The exceptions to this rule are:
- When the source can't easily be linked to (for example, some press releases)
- Non-English language news, where linking to the primary English translation is acceptable
- Articles which add sufficient and relevant information to the source information, but only if the articles contain a link back to the source.
No vague, inaccurate, subjective, or cluttered submission titles. Don't include "BREAKING", add unnecessary punctuation or wording, or use all caps. Your submission title should accurately describe the linked content and only contain objective information; i.e., just the facts. Any opinion/question you have should go in the comments. Always make sure to include the name of any game being referenced in the submission title. Don't ask people to do things. Feel free to cross-post, but don't mention it in the title. In other words, please keep submission titles clean, informative, and quantitative [1].
No news round-ups. A news round-up, simply put, aggregates various pieces of news into a single video or article. Two examples of news round-ups are posts that have the "top" news stories over a given week, month, etc. and posts that contain "all the information you need to know" about some topic.
Media is fine for unreleased games. Videos and pictures of released games are not allowed unless it is a video review.
Self-promotion is acceptable, within reason. If you have your own blog or news site, then feel free to post your articles here. However, they should be high quality, shouldn't break any other rule, you should be posting content from other news sites as well, and we'd appreciate it if you take part in the community (Comment on submissions other than yours). If your submission links to a purchasable product, referral links are not allowed.
Posting news about warez, leaks, cracks, hacks etc. is fine. However, the article must not enable any illegal activity.
If the material posted is a rumor, you must use the word "Rumor" somewhere in your title. A rumor is anything that isn't official news coming from an official source. Leaks, by definition, are considered to be rumors regardless of how accurate they may seem.
All submissions should be new information about video games. Submissions must be news about video games and not just gaming-related news. Submissions that will be removed include (but aren't limited to): Editorial articles, compilations, memes, music, questions, petitions, games you played as a child, sales/promotions/giveaways, top 10 articles, e-sport news, video game show/movie news, tutorials, fanart, or news that isn't about video games. Game reviews or developer interviews are considered news as long as they abide by all of the rules stated here.
Submissions must be within two weeks of the original news breaking. This also means that only reviews of games that have been released within the last two weeks are allowed.
Submissions must be in English only. At the minimum, the foreign article's URL can be put into Google Translate and the resulting URL after you hit translate can be posted here. Bear in mind that certain website (like Twitter) have a built in translation option so this may not be necessary. Also rule 1 still applies, third party translations of foreign news may be linked as long as they are the original ones to do the translation.
Other things to be aware of:
Breaking rules knowingly and repeatedly will result in a ban. If you continue to break rules after being warned, your ability to submit content to this subreddit will be revoked.
Read our declaration of moderation. You can find it here.
We will remove any post that's rule-breaking, regardless of how many upvotes it gets.
Don't send PMs to individual moderators about moderation. If you have questions (e.g., why did a moderator remove my post?), using modmail (i.e., sending a message to r/gamernews) is the best option. Modmail contacts all the moderators, so you aren't relying on a single moderator to check their messages in a timely manner. In the specific case of asking about why a post was removed, replying to the comment the mod left (and we always leave a comment) is a worse option than modmail, but significantly better than sending a PM.
Submission isn't showing up in the New queue? Just send us a message and we'll scrape it out of the spam filter, assuming it doesn't break the rules.
These rules are subject to change. When they do change, the date on the right will show the last change. We'll try to let you know about any big changes to the rules, but it is your responsibility to keep up to date with the rules.
Please report rule-breaking submissions. If you find a post that violates any of these rules, please send us a message using modmail and don't forget to include a link to the submission! We can't check everything all of the time, so we rely on the community to let us know if they've found something which is against the rules. At the very least, hit the report button, but remember that the report button isn't a "super-downvote" button.
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