When providing content to our readers, we uphold a few editorial standards. While details differ on every piece of content, this page covers how we attempt to provide accurate and trustworthy content on Can I Play That.
Reviews, review copies and donations
Our writers may receive early access or review copies of a game, software, or hardware. When something has been provided for free, this is disclosed in our articles. This does not influence the way we cover the game, software, or hardware. Especially when it comes to accessibility, it’s necessary to point out the negatives as well as the positives. Reviews are a matter of opinion and the reviewer’s experience with the material.
Similarly, we or our parent organization AbilityPoints may receive donations to support our mission(s). These can include small donations from single developers, and occasionally larger donations from companies or charity drives. These too do not influence our coverage of their products. Rarely we may publicly acknowledge a donation or charity initiative, but often the specifics of donations aren’t known to our staff.
Embargoes and NDAs
When asked, we are happy to agree to embargoes and NDAs. This means we do not disclose information given to us before a specific time or date. To effectively cover the gaming industry, trust is an important factor. We will not break these agreements, even if certain information has become public knowledge. We do believe these should not apply after a game’s public release, but are happy to discuss specifics.
Leaked information
We do not cover or speculate on information that has been leaked. Leaking information, no matter the source, is a huge breach of trust. At best, they contain spoilers, but often it’s content like early build footage that can be damaging to a game’s reputation and by extension its developers.
Image attribution
Unless otherwise stated, images in our content are screenshots and photos taken by our team or official promotional images. Our featured images might contain edited versions of either. If you find any images believed to be your own in our (older) content, please reach out to us for correct attribution or replacement of those images. Please ask permission before using one of our images, this is usually no problem, or attribute the image to us.
Sponsored posts and advertisements
At this time, we do not publish any sponsored posts or allow advertisements on our website. These do not align with the mission of Can I Play That. Advertisements often also cause accessibility issues on websites, which is something we want to avoid.
We receive many emails, to keep this manageable any mention of sponsored content, SEO, Crypto, or AI will swiftly be delegated to the thrash.
AI generated content
While some of our writers may use tools to write content using text-to-speech, and edit using spelling and grammar checks that increasingly leverage some form of automation branded as AI, we do not use AI generated content. All of the thoughts, opinions, and observations published on Can I Play That are those of our writers.
Similarly, we do not use AI image generation for images on our website. We encourage our writers to take relevant screenshots, and where needed we use publicly available promotional images.
Editor’s notes and multiple authors
On some articles, an editor’s note is added on publication or after. These are used to provide context or explain when some aspect of the article has been changed. In some cases, when a piece has been written and includes a sizeable contribution from another writer or editor, this writer will be credited as well on the article.
Written by Can I Play That
Some posts or pages on our site are credited to Can I Play That?, in these cases there often has been a collaboration between staff to provide a piece of (evergreen) content, or it isn’t important to note who contributed (such as game information entered into the Codex). In rare cases, we’ve been asked to remove the name by the original author to protect their identity. In other cases we decided to remove an author’s name because of problematic behavior that does not align with our standards, and the content may be removed after review if it is deemed incorrect.
