Method

How the roundup is compiled

This page is the rulebook the rest of the site is written against. It sets out where information may come from, what is never written regardless of how well it would read, and how a paid arrangement is prevented from shaping a description.

Who writes this

Vertex Space is written and maintained by the editorial team at NIKOM CONSTRUCT s.r.o., the company named in the footer of every page. There are no named authors on this site and no author biographies, because a byline on a site of this size would suggest a newsroom that does not exist. Responsibility sits with the company, and the company's registration details and email address are published in full so that responsibility can be exercised.

Nothing here is produced by hands-on testing. This publisher does not run a test bench, does not benchmark frame rates and does not play the covered titles for the purpose of reviewing them. Saying so plainly matters more than it might appear: a large share of the claims that mislead readers in this category are claims of testing that never happened.

The four places information may come from

Every statement on this site falls into one of four buckets, and each bucket has a rule attached.

1. The advertiser's own description

Supplied through the advertising network that administers the commercial arrangement. It is the only permitted source for product-specific statements about a covered title. Where it is silent, the entry records the silence rather than borrowing an answer from elsewhere.

2. The vendor's public website

Linked so that readers can check it themselves. Used for the existence of pages — support, pricing, privacy — and pointed at rather than summarised, because those pages change without notice.

3. Australian public bodies

Used for anything about classification, consumer rights, privacy or online safety. Their role is described, their pages are linked, and their wording is not paraphrased into something stronger than they said.

4. This publisher's own process

Statements about how the site works — how entries are chosen, how corrections are handled, how the site is funded. These are the only claims here that originate with the publisher, and they are verifiable by reading the site.

What is never written here

The list below is not aspirational. It describes constraints applied while writing, and a page that breaches one of them is rewritten rather than published.

• No invented people. No reviewer personas, no staff photographs, no job titles, no quoted players. If a person is not real and identifiable, they do not appear.
• No testimonials or ratings. There are no stars, no scores out of ten and no reader quotes, because this publisher has collected none and inventing them would be fabrication.
• No statistics without a linked source. A percentage, a user count or a market share figure appears only alongside the document it came from.
• No superlatives presented as fact. Phrases such as “the best”, “the most secure” or “guaranteed” describe conclusions this publisher has no method to reach.
• No urgency. No countdowns, no limited offers, no suggestion that a reader should act today. Nothing on this site becomes less true tomorrow.
• No borrowed imagery. No product screenshots, no logos other than this site's own mark, no stock photographs. The illustration on this site is plain shapes drawn in code.

The order decisions are made in

Order is the practical defence against commercial influence, because it decides what a payment can touch. Each step is completed before the next begins.

1. Define the category

   The four properties on the edition page are fixed before any title is considered. They are written to describe a kind of game, not to describe one particular game, which is the usual way a category is quietly bent around an advertiser.

2. Apply the nine checks

   Each check is answered from its designated source or marked unanswered. An unanswered check is published as unanswered; it is never filled in from a plausible guess.

3. Write the entry from the sources alone

   The entry is drafted using only the material gathered in the previous step, with attribution attached to each product claim.

4. Add the commercial layer last

   Only once the entry is written is the paid link placed, together with the disclosure beside it. Nothing in the entry is revised afterwards to make the link sit more comfortably.

How the funding is kept out of the judgement

This site is funded by one affiliate arrangement. The advertising network pays a commission when a reader follows a paid link, registers an account, confirms the email address and launches the game once. That is the whole of the transaction, and its shape has consequences worth spelling out.

The commission is paid for a registration, not for a sale, so this publisher earns nothing from anything a reader spends inside a game afterwards. That is why the page about spending can be written without a conflict: there is no version of that page that earns this site more money.

The arrangement also buys nothing editorial. The advertiser does not see pages before they are published, cannot request changes, and has no mechanism to remove an unanswered check from an entry. If that ever changed, the change would be published here before anything else on the site was altered.

Why the site is written in Australian terms

Classification, consumer guarantees, privacy rights and scam reporting all work differently depending on where the reader lives, and generic international advice tends to be useless at exactly the moment it is needed. This site is written for readers in Australia: spelling and dates follow Australian usage, money is discussed in Australian dollars where it is discussed at all, and the bodies named are the Australian ones with actual jurisdiction, each linked to its own site rather than summarised second-hand.

Readers outside Australia are welcome, but should treat the regulatory material as inapplicable and find the equivalent body in their own country.

Corrections

Errors are inevitable; leaving them in place is a choice. Anyone — a reader, a studio, a regulator — can write to info@vertexspace.online and point at a statement that is wrong.

Corrections of fact are made when they are received rather than held for the next edition. Where a correction changes the substance of a page, the change is described on that page so a returning reader can see what moved. Requests to remove accurate but unflattering material are declined, and a request of that kind from an advertiser would itself be published.

What this method cannot do

A method that relies on documents inherits the limits of documents. It cannot tell a reader whether a game is fun, whether its community is pleasant, whether matchmaking is fair, or whether the servers will still be running in two years. It cannot detect a vendor page that is inaccurate. It cannot substitute for reading the terms a reader agrees to at sign-up.

What it can do is keep this site from adding new errors to a category already full of them, and make every claim here checkable by someone who does not trust it.