Methodology
How this is put together.
The rules that decide what gets published, stated in public. Latest publication: September 30, 2026.
- Sections
- 5
- Pieces published
- 16
- Guides
- 6
- Glossary terms
- 16
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.