Last updated: [07/25/2026]
This page explains how Game9bit.com.pk decides what to cover, how we test and review games and apps, how we handle money and advertising relationships, and what we do when we get something wrong.
We publish this because trust in gaming media is not automatic. You should be able to see how the work is done before you decide whether to believe it.
1. Our Mission
Game9bit exists to serve Pakistani gamers with accurate, locally relevant information about games, apps, hardware, and pricing.
Global gaming sites do many things well, but they are not written for this market. Prices are quoted in dollars. Payment methods that “everyone uses” do not work with a local card. Regional restrictions go unexplained. Recommendations assume hardware most readers here do not own.
Our editorial mission is to answer the questions Pakistani players actually have: What does it cost in PKR? Can I get it here? Will it run on my phone? Is this seller legitimate? What should I do instead?
2. What We Cover and How We Choose
We publish daily across mobile games, PC and console gaming, apps and utilities, top-up and pricing guides, esports, and hardware.
We choose stories based on:
- Reader demand. What people are searching for, emailing us about, and asking in the community.
- Local relevance. A story that affects Pakistani players is more important to us than a bigger story that does not.
- Practical usefulness. We prioritise content that helps someone make a decision or solve a problem over content that merely fills a slot.
- Gaps in existing coverage. If a question is already answered well elsewhere, we would rather find one that is not.
We do not choose stories based on advertiser interest, affiliate potential, or the wishes of any publisher or PR agency.
3. How We Review Games and Apps
3.1 Hands-On Testing
We do not review anything we have not used. Every review is based on the writer’s own time with the game or app.
For a full review, we aim to complete the main experience or spend enough hours with a live-service title to form a genuine judgement. Where we have not been able to do that — because a game is enormous, or servers were not live before launch — we publish it as “Review in Progress” or “First Impressions” and say clearly how much time we have spent.
3.2 What We Test For
Our reviews consider:
- Gameplay and design — is it actually fun, and does it respect your time?
- Performance on realistic hardware — we test on mid-range and budget devices, not just flagships, because that is what most of our readers own
- Network requirements — how it behaves on typical Pakistani mobile data and home broadband, including under packet loss
- Storage and data cost — install size, update sizes, and how much mobile data a session consumes
- Monetisation — how aggressive it is, whether it is pay-to-win, and what it realistically costs in PKR to be competitive
- Regional availability — whether it works here, and what payment methods are supported
- Accessibility and localisation — control options, text size, and language support
3.3 Our Testing Devices
We disclose the device and settings used for performance testing at the end of each review, so you can judge how our results relate to your own hardware.
3.4 Scoring
Where we use a score, it is out of 10 and it reflects the reviewer’s overall judgement — not an average of sub-scores. A 7 is a good game. We do not operate on the inflated scale where anything below 8 is considered a failure.
A score is a summary, not the review. If you only read the number, you have missed the point of the article.
3.5 Re-Reviews and Updates
Live-service games change constantly. Where a game changes materially after launch — a major overhaul, a monetisation change, or a significant fix — we try to revisit it and add a dated update or publish a fresh assessment. We cannot do this for everything.
4. Editorial Independence
Advertisers and sponsors have no influence over our editorial content. Specifically:
- No advertiser, sponsor, publisher, or PR agency receives advance copies of editorial articles
- No advertiser has approval rights, editing rights, or veto over any editorial article
- We do not offer positive coverage, high scores, or favourable placement for payment
- Advertising sales staff have no involvement in editorial decisions
- We will publish critical coverage of a company that advertises with us, and have no obligation to warn them first
If any brand attempts to condition an advertising buy on favourable coverage, we decline the buy.
5. Review Copies, Gifts, and Hospitality
- We accept review codes, app access, and hardware samples from publishers and manufacturers. Receiving one never guarantees coverage or a positive review.
- Where a product was supplied free for review, we disclose it in the article.
- Review hardware is either returned after testing or disclosed as retained.
- We do not accept cash, in-game currency, exclusive items, or personal gifts in exchange for coverage.
- If travel or accommodation for an event is paid for by a publisher, we disclose this prominently in any resulting article.
6. Sponsored and Paid Content
Some content on Game9bit is paid for. When it is, we label it clearly:
- “Sponsored” — content paid for by a brand. Labelled at the top of the article and in the article listing, not buried at the bottom.
- “Paid Partnership” — content produced in collaboration with a brand.
- “Promoted” — third-party content placed on our site.
Sponsored content is visually distinguished from editorial content. We do not allow sponsored articles to be styled to look like independent reviews. We reserve the right to decline sponsored content that would mislead readers, and we do not accept sponsorship from account-selling services, cheat and hack tools, or anything requiring readers to share account credentials.
7. Affiliate Links
Some articles include affiliate links. If you buy through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
Our rules:
- Affiliate potential never determines what we cover or how we score it
- We do not add affiliate links to products we would not recommend
- We disclose affiliate relationships in the article and in our Disclaimer
- A product does not get a better score because it has a higher commission rate
8. Sourcing and Fact-Checking
- We link to primary sources. Where a story originates with a publisher announcement, patch note, or official statement, we link to it directly.
- We credit other outlets. If another publication broke a story, we say so and link to them. We do not launder other people’s reporting as our own.
- We label rumours as rumours. Leaks, datamines, and unconfirmed reports are clearly identified as such, with an indication of how reliable the source has been previously.
- We verify prices before publishing against the official store or seller, and we date price-sensitive articles.
- We do not publish unverified claims about individuals. Allegations against named people require substantiation.
8.1 Anonymous Sources
We prefer named sources. We will grant anonymity where a source faces a genuine risk — professional retaliation, for example — and where the information is significant and verifiable through other means. We do not grant anonymity to allow someone to attack a competitor without accountability.
9. Use of AI Tools
We believe readers deserve to know how content is made.
- Articles are written and edited by humans. We do not publish AI-generated articles under a writer’s byline.
- AI tools may be used internally for research assistance, transcription, spelling and grammar checking, or generating headline options — always subject to human verification and editing.
- Any AI-generated image used illustratively is labelled as such.
- We fact-check any AI-assisted research against primary sources before publication, because these tools confidently produce wrong information.
10. Corrections Policy
We will make mistakes. What matters is what we do next.
- Minor corrections — typographical errors, broken links, formatting — are fixed without a note.
- Substantive corrections — a wrong price, an incorrect fact, a misattributed quote, a broken step in a guide — are fixed and accompanied by a dated correction note at the foot of the article stating what was wrong and what changed.
- Significant corrections that change the meaning of a story are noted at the top of the article.
- Retractions. Where a story is fundamentally wrong, we retract it, explain why, and leave the retraction notice in place rather than quietly deleting the page.
We do not silently edit articles to hide errors. The correction record stays visible.
To report an error: email [email protected] with the article URL, the specific error, the correct information, and a source if you have one. We aim to review corrections within two business days.
11. Updating Older Articles
Guides and price articles are updated periodically. When we make a substantive update we change the “Last updated” date and note what changed. We do not refresh a date without changing anything, and we do not backdate articles.
12. Comments and Community
Where comments are enabled, we moderate for abuse, spam, harassment, hate speech, doxxing, and links to malware or pirated material. We do not remove comments simply for being critical of us or of our reviews.
Contributors and staff do not upvote or defend their own work using anonymous accounts.
13. Conflicts of Interest
Writers must disclose to the editor any relationship that could reasonably be seen as a conflict — employment or contract work with a publisher, a personal relationship with a subject, a financial stake in a company, or paid creator arrangements.
Where a conflict exists, we either reassign the piece or disclose the relationship prominently in the article. Writers do not review products made by companies they work for or hold a stake in.
14. Bylines and Accountability
Articles carry the name of the person who wrote them. Reviews and opinion pieces always do. Where an article is written by the newsroom collectively or by a freelancer who has asked not to be named for a legitimate reason, we say so.
Our writers are accountable for their work and are expected to engage with reasonable reader criticism.
15. Your Feedback
This policy is a commitment, and commitments should be testable. If you think we have fallen short of anything on this page, tell us:
Editorial feedback: [email protected] Corrections: [email protected] General: [email protected]