Last reviewed: 31 July 2026
This page explains how Respawno produces its coverage, where our information comes from, and how to tell us when we have got something wrong.
Who writes for Respawno
Articles are published under the Respawno Editorial byline, and Respawno as a publication is accountable for every one of them.
We previously ran two individual bylines. We have retired them: they were editorial personas rather than separate identifiable writers, and presenting them as distinct people implied a newsroom we do not have. A publication byline is the honest description of how this site is produced, so that is what we now use.
How we research
Our hardware and troubleshooting coverage is research synthesis: we read primary documentation, manufacturer specifications, independent test results, and support channels, then work out what the evidence actually supports and write it plainly.
We prefer sources in this order:
- Primary documentation — manufacturer specifications, developer interviews, standards bodies, vendor engineering notes
- Independent measurement — publications that test hardware and publish their methodology
- Support channels and community reports — useful for establishing how common a problem is, not for establishing why it happens
Every article ends with a Sources block listing the publisher, title, retrieval date, and full URL for everything we relied on. If a claim is not sourced, treat it as our analysis rather than as established fact.
What we do not claim
We are not currently a testing lab. Where an article does not say we measured something ourselves, we did not. We think that distinction matters more than it is usually given credit for, so we state it here rather than letting layout imply otherwise.
When we describe a procedure — capping a frame rate, measuring stick drift, reading Event Viewer — we are describing a method you can run and verify, not reporting results from our own bench.
Uncertainty and rumour
For unreleased games and hardware, we distinguish between what a publisher has confirmed and what has been reported, leaked, or inferred. Unconfirmed information is labelled as such in the text. We would rather be less exciting than wrong.
Imagery
Most photography on this site comes from manufacturer press assets and published reviews, used for editorial coverage and credited near the end of each article. We do not present third-party imagery as our own original photography. Screenshots of software interfaces are used to illustrate the steps being described.
If you hold rights to an image used here and want it credited differently or removed, email us and we will act on it promptly.
Advertising and independence
Respawno is funded by advertising served through Google AdSense. Advertisers have no input into our editorial coverage, no advance sight of articles, and no ability to influence a recommendation.
Where we recommend hardware, the recommendation reflects our reading of the evidence. If we ever publish sponsored or affiliate content, it will be labelled clearly at the top of the article.
Corrections
We correct errors rather than quietly editing them away.
- Factual errors are fixed and noted on the article.
- Substantive changes to a recommendation update the article's revision date.
- Typos and formatting are fixed without a note.
If you spot something wrong — a number, a mechanism, a claim that does not hold up — email contact@respawno.com with the article and what you believe is incorrect. Corrections from readers with hands-on knowledge are genuinely welcome, and we would rather hear it from you than leave it wrong.
AI use
We use AI tooling as a drafting and research aid. Every article is reviewed, fact-checked against its cited sources, and edited by a human editor before publication. We do not publish unreviewed generated text.
We want to be specific rather than reassuring here, because a general disclosure is easy to write and hard to verify. In September 2026 we audited the full archive and found one article — our Ballad of Antara page — that had been published with fabricated detail in it: invented characters, an invented composer credit, invented locations, and gameplay tips for a game nobody has played. It had already been removed from the site before the audit; we have since rewritten it from publisher sources and republished it, with the errors described openly in the article itself. One further article had a similar unverifiable section, which we deleted. That is the full extent of what the audit found, and it is why the review step above exists in the form it does.
Contact
Email: contact@respawno.com Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States Response time: usually within 48 hours, Monday to Friday