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How this is put together.

The rules that decide what gets published, stated in public. Latest publication: September 30, 2026.

Sections
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Pieces published
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Guides
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Glossary terms
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Counted from the published material at build time, not typed in.

What gets published

Sources, always named
Every piece names what it rests on and links to it, so any statement can be checked against its origin. Primary material — the document, the paper, the announcement itself — is preferred to someone else's account of it.
Retold, not reprinted
News is summarised in our own words and links back to the original. Wording is not copied; only names and terms coincide.
Figures as the source gives them
Numbers are quoted as stated — not rounded, not recalculated, not filled in. Where a source says “more than 100”, so do we.
Nothing invented
No made-up figures, quotations, forecasts or placeholder entries. Quotations appear only where the source carries them and names who said them. Where a number does not exist, no number is shown.
48 hours
A news item is eligible only if its original was published within the last 48 hours, dated from the source's own feed or page in UTC. A source with no verifiable date is not used, and the window does not stretch to fill a section.
Reviews: summarised, not written
We do not review games ourselves and give no scores of our own. A critics' roundup summarises what published reviews said, in our own words, with a link to every review it draws on and the aggregate scores as the aggregators showed them on a stated date.
Prices and plans, dated
Subscription prices, plan contents and store rules change. Where we state them, we say on which day we checked them, and we update the page when the source changes.
Blocked sources
Some publishers refuse automated requests. That is their decision and we do not work around it: such a source is read in a browser or not used at all.
Corrections
Errors are corrected on the page, and the date of the last substantive revision is shown on it. Report one to editor@autosavejournal.info.

Images

Images are either existing work reused under its licence — public-domain material, freely licensed files, or press material that game publishers release for coverage, used on the terms they set — or supplied by the publisher of this site. The author or owner, the licence or terms and a link to the source appear under every such image, and a cropped file says so. Pictures made with generative tools are labelled Illustration and marked as such in the file itself; they are never presented as photographs of real people or events. Where nothing suitable exists, a piece runs without a picture rather than with a decorative one.

Money

The site carries no advertising and no paid placements. Coverage cannot be bought.