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Editorial standards

These are the rules Glenridge Games works to. If we break one, tell us.

What we publish

  • Briefs are short items: what happened, in our words, with a short read on why it matters, labelled as our judgment, and a link to the original source. The read reasons from the facts in the story and never adds a fact, a figure or a forecast of its own.
  • Analysis is our reading of a development: what changed, what is known, what is not. It uses several sources and carries a named author.
  • Opinion argues a position. It is always labelled, always has a named author, and its facts are sourced like any other story. Opinion can be pointed and can be uncomfortable for the people it is about. It cannot be false.
  • The Turn Order is the Monday email and page that gathers the week’s stories.

Attribution

Every fact traces to a source we list at the bottom of the story, and the original source is linked first. When we rely on another outlet’s reporting, we name it in the text. A publisher’s announcement, a distributor’s notice or a company’s earnings release is that company’s claim, and we say so. Sales figures, print-run figures and “best-selling” claims name who produced them and what they count. Forecasts and allegations are labelled, with who made them. If we could not confirm something, we say we have not confirmed it, or we do not run it.

In our own words

We summarize and link. We do not copy. Quotations are short, in quotation marks and attributed. We do not reuse other publishers’ images or headlines.

The checks every story passes

Before a story is published it is checked against its sources, checked by a second, independent system, and reviewed against these standards. Analysis and opinion get further review, including a reviewer whose job is to look for the error, the spin and the side we missed. Any edit after review means the checks run again.

Glenridge Games specifically

We cover the trade, not the table. A story belongs here when it changes what a publisher, distributor or store does or earns. Reviews, rules and strategy content, spoiler coverage, deck lists and buying guides are not covered, and a product announcement is covered only for what it means for the people who make or sell it.

We report on rules and money. We do not give legal, financial or investment advice. Court, trademark and licensing stories cite the filing, ruling or agreement and its date. Price and market figures for collectibles and singles name the marketplace or index and its date, and we do not tell readers what a card or product will be worth, or when to buy or sell. A secondary-market price is never presented as a suggested retail price, and a manufacturer’s suggested price is never presented as what a product sells for.

Leaks and rumours are labelled. A product, date or deal reported only through an unnamed source or a leaked image is called a rumour, says who it comes from, and is not treated as confirmed until the company says so.

Crowdfunding is reported as promises. A campaign’s funding total and delivery date are the creator’s figures. We say so, and we do not report a project as delivered until the creator or backers say it shipped.

The publisher is planning a tabletop game store. Christopher Ross, who publishes this site, is planning a store in St. Catharines, Ontario. Where a story is about hobby retail, a distributor that would supply such a store or a publisher’s store program, the story says so. If the store opens, or the plan changes, this page will say so.

Where a story comes from and where it is placed

Every story has one topic and one or more regions. Canada is a region, so you can follow what matters where you are. Trading card games and tabletop RPGs are topics, not a way of sorting stories by what the reader plays.

Images

The images on our stories, when we run one, are illustrations, not news photographs. Each one is generated with an AI image tool and chosen to fit a topic, such as a shelf of boxed games or a distributor’s warehouse. None of them depicts the event, the people, the products or the companies in a story, and none is meant to. Every image carries a label on the page saying that it is an AI illustration, and the same statement is written into the image file. We never present a generated image as a photograph of a real event, and we do not use other publishers’ images or product artwork. If we ever run a real photograph, it is credited to the photographer and the source.

Interests we disclose

Glenridge Games is published by Christopher Ross, who also runs thisismyurl.com, a web and WordPress business. The only advertising on this site is labelled house advertising for that business. It has no say over what we cover, and we do not cover the publisher’s business as news. If that ever changes, we will say so on the story.

Independence

Advertisers and sponsors have no say over what we select or how we write about it. Sponsored content, if we ever run it, will be labelled as such and kept apart from editorial. We disclose any interest an author or the site has in a story.

Corrections

We fix errors openly. See corrections.

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