Spotted something niche? Send us the tip at submit-news

Gaming World now runs a daily news corner for emulation, homebrew, mods and indie oddities, and you can send us the lead yourself.

AI-drafted. This story was written with AI from the outside reporting listed under Sources, and checked by automated tools before it went up. The originals have the full detail.

Every day now, Gaming World runs a news story about the bit of the games world that the big sites can't be bothered with. Emulation and preservation, console hacking and homebrew, ROM hacks and fan translations, PC recompiles and ports, mods, independent developers, app store nonsense, the odd bit of clever programming that deserves a fuss made of it. You'll find it all at /news, and if you'd rather have it come to you, there's an RSS feed at /news/rss.xml.

You probably know before we do

You are, frankly, better plugged into this corner of the internet than we are. Someone ports a Saturn game to the PC on a Tuesday afternoon and we hear about it on Thursday, if we're lucky. So we've built a proper form for tips at /submit-news. Give us a headline, one to five links, a few lines on what happened and why anyone should care, and up to eight pictures if you have them. A name is optional, purely so we know who to credit if you want the nod.

The links matter more than anything else on the form. We want the original reporting, the release page, the repository, the developer's own post, the sort of thing a story can actually be built from. A forum thread by itself won't do it, not because forums are beneath us but because every story on the desk gets written from several sources, and a thread is people talking about a thing, not the thing itself.

What happens after you hit send

A tip is a lead, not a promise. A person reads every single submission before it gets anywhere near the desk, and even once it clears that, we go looking for other coverage of the same story before a word gets written. Nothing goes straight from your inbox to ours.

The stories themselves are written with AI from the sources you and others point us to, and we say so plainly on the page, with every source listed at the bottom so you can go and read the originals yourself. Pictures carry a credit back to wherever they came from. And because forms on the open internet attract mischief as well as scoops, everything that comes through /submit-news is checked on arrival for attempts to smuggle instructions into our writing tools, and any pictures are checked to be genuine images before we keep them.

Developers pitching their own game should still head for /submit, which is for previews. This form is for telling us about the world, not about you.

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