How do I subscribe to GameDrone?

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What sets GameDrone apart from other gaming websites?

GameDrone is built upon original content. It’s not another gaming news blog, or another console-oriented gaming website.

Instead GameDrone offers a wealth of PC gaming information.

• Articles that are entertaining, interesting and useful.
• Guides to gaming applications, websites and anything related to gaming.
• Tips and strategies for improving your play.
• Reviews for both wellknown and lesser known games. As well as gaming applications and digital download platforms.
• Re-reviews of games after the fact. With patches and DLC games continue to evolve, so why shouldn’t reviews do the same?
• Unique perspectives on popular – and unpopular – topics.
• Join Droniac on Twitter to keep up-to-date with the most interesting developments in PC gaming as they occur.

And of course much, much more.

In a sense, GameDrone will be your prime source for anything PC gaming. With accurate, timely and useful information.

Why GameDrone?

The name GameDrone was inspired by the nickname of it’s originator: Droniac. Which was in turn coined after the various drone units in Tiberian Sun: Firestorm.

It holds no mystical meaning. It is merely a unique and cool name for a blog about games.

What’s the deal with this layout?

It’s a layout that was exclusively designed for GameDrone by Martijn397.

The final implementation and most of the styling was done by Droniac.

This layout is not available for use on other blogs.

How does your rating system work?

Our rating system is designed to provide you with the best possible evaluation of a game’s merits and faults.

Rather than relying on arbitrary scoring systems – GameDrone provides a dual rating system.

Initially a game’s pros and cons are provided. This overview details the most obvious flaws and the most impressive feats of engineering. Allowing you to make a quick evaluation based on several quick points.

To this we then add a recommendation, which can be any of the following:

• Must-have – A game so good that any self-respecting gamer cannot do without. Don’t miss out on this one, unless you absolutely hate the genre.
• Impressive – A quality game that will entertain both fans of the genre and other gamers, but it comes with a few flaws that make it fall short of being a must-have.
• For fans only – This game does a lot of things right, but either through design or simply flawed implementation caters only to fans of the genre.
• Try before you buy – You don’t want to go out and buy this game immediately. It’s not horrible by any means, but it has a few glaring issues or unusual gameplay mechanics that you’ll want to see for yourself prior to making the purchase.
• So-so – This game is either terribly mediocre or has glaring issues that overshadow any brilliant gameplay that may have hidden underneath.
• Unworthy – You could buy this game, but you won’t like it.
• Trash can material – Maybe if you’re looking for an expensive coaster to put your beer on while you play a better game…

Finally the reviewer provides their own impression of the game in form of a regular 1-10 rating. This final score is unrelated to the overal recommendation, but exemplifies the enjoyment the reviewer derived from playing this game.

It’s entirely possible for an impressive game to receive a mere 7, or a for fans only game to receive a 9. Even so we think that it’s important to allow you to see the review in it’s appropriate context. And any discrepancies between the recommendation and reviewer rating will only serve to better inform you, the reader.

What is your comments policy?

We love comments and look forward to receiving them on our posts and pages. In fact we actively reply to comments on our posts.

However, there are always some bad seeds in the crowd and that is why we’ve established a comments policy. This shouldn’t affect any normal commenter, but they’re listed here just in case.

• Anonymous comments are always deleted. You can use a handle or nickname, but please use something other than ‘Anonymous’.
• Comments containing abusive, offensive, rude, profane or racist content will be deleted. This is not flamewar central.
• Comments are automatically checked by several plugins, which could (unlikely, but possibly) result in your comment being filtered out. You can contact us if you see your comment still isn’t up after a day, but we do not manually check blocked comments (there are just too many).
• We reserve the right to delete any comment that is deemed offensive, inappropriate or irrelevant without explanation.
• We reserve the right to edit all comments for content, clarity and length. Particularly comments solely intended to get people to visit a specific site will frequently see the link edited out, unless it’s a genuinely related site.
• The original post belongs to GameDrone. Comments belong to their respective commenters. We reserve the right to quote any comments in part or in full.
• Lengthy reprints of text or news articles will be deleted, you can link to stuff you know.

I represent a gaming-related company and would like to advertise on GameDrone – is this possible?

Not at this moment. See this page for details.

Can I contribute with my own article/guide/review?

You’re welcome to send in what you have and we’ll discuss publishing it on GameDrone.

This does not mean your contribution will be published, but we’ll consider it.

Do you do link exchanges?

Yes, but only with quality gaming blogs that have added value.

Generic news blogs, image blogs, game description blogs and game piracy blogs need not apply.

Still qualify? Then contact us and we’ll see about adding you to the list.