The rules we hold ourselves to

1. Independence

Spyld Gaming is independently owned and operated. No publisher, platform, hardware brand or game studio holds any stake in the site or any influence over what we publish. We have never accepted payment in exchange for a review, a recommendation, a link, or a mention, and we do not run sponsored guest posts. Where we accept a review sample of hardware, that is disclosed in the article and the sample does not have to be returned in any condition that would encourage a soft verdict.

2. Separation of advertising and editorial

Advertising on this site is served programmatically. Neither we nor any advertiser selects which ads appear alongside a given article, and no advertiser is shown an article before it is published. Nobody on the editorial side is compensated based on advertising performance for a specific piece.

Affiliate links, where used, appear only in hardware and accessory coverage, are disclosed at the top of the article, and never determine the order or the verdict of a recommendation. If the best option for a reader is a product we earn nothing from, that is the one we recommend. See the affiliate disclosure for the specifics.

3. Accuracy and verification

Every fix presented as verified has been reproduced on hardware we control. The full procedure is documented on the how we test page. Where a problem cannot be reproduced — typically because it depends on a specific ISP, region, account state or hardware revision — the article states that clearly and labels the relevant steps as reader-reported rather than tested.

Numbers are never estimated. If an article claims a fix recovered frames, reduced latency or cut load times, the measurement method and the machine it ran on are stated. Differences below our noise threshold are not reported as improvements.

4. Sourcing

Where we rely on information we did not produce — a developer statement, a patch note, a platform status page, a reproducible community report — it is linked in the article so you can read the original. We do not cite other aggregator articles as evidence, and we do not present a claim as established because several sites repeat it.

5. Use of AI

Articles on Spyld Gaming are written by the named human author on the byline. We do not publish machine-generated articles, machine-generated sections, or machine-rewritten text presented as original reporting.

We do use software the way any writer does: spellcheck, grammar checking, and occasionally a model to summarise a long patch note or a thread of bug reports so the author knows what to go test. The testing, the judgement, the conclusions and the prose are the author’s. If that ever changes, this page changes first and the disclosure appears on the articles themselves.

6. Corrections

When we get something wrong we correct the article and add a dated correction note explaining what was wrong and what changed. We do not silently edit substantive errors. Trivial fixes — a typo, a broken link, a clarified sentence — are made without a note.

To report an error, email hello@spyld.com with the article URL and, ideally, what happened when you followed the steps. We read all of it, and reader corrections have prompted more rewrites here than our own re-checks have.

7. Review and update cadence

The date shown on an article is the date its content was last reviewed, not the date the page template last changed. Live-service code lists are re-verified weekly. Game-specific fixes are re-checked at major patches. Everything else is reviewed at least twice a year, and anything that fails review is either rewritten or removed rather than left online to rot.

8. Authorship and expertise

Nothing on this site is published anonymously or under a shared “staff” byline. Every article names its author, and every author has a profile page stating their actual background and what they are qualified to write about. Where an article falls outside an author’s core area, it carries a named reviewer as well.

9. What we will not publish

• Cheats, exploits, aimbots, injectors, or any tool designed to gain an unfair advantage or break a game’s terms of service.
• Piracy instructions, cracked-game links, licence-key generators or methods to circumvent DRM.
• Account-selling, boosting services, or anything that trades in credentials.
• Roblox “free Robux” generators and equivalent scams for other platforms. There is no working method; every page claiming otherwise is a phishing funnel, and we will say so.
• Advice that risks a reader’s hardware or data without an explicit warning and a documented way to undo it.

10. Reader privacy

Our on-site search runs entirely in your browser; search terms are never sent to us. What we do collect, and what third parties collect through advertising, is set out in the privacy policy and cookie policy.

11. Contact

Editorial questions, corrections, and complaints: hello@spyld.com. We aim to respond to correction reports within two working days. Pitches for sponsored content will not receive a reply.