About Us

We produce features, reviews, videos and provide personal thoughts on everything from the retro classics to current generation titles. Whilst we cover everything as standard, we have a special focus on Indie and Retro.

The website is staffed by dedicated gamers, who are unpaid and create the site content in their free time.

We are not affiliated with any third party, and all content should be regarded as opinion.

Commenting Policy and User Accounts

Comments can be deleted or edited at any time by an administrator, so please think twice before spamming or posting other inappropriate content.

Please be aware that views and opinions expressed in the comments are those of the individual author and not of StartGame, unless otherwise stated.

Information provided when registering to the site is saved in the site database, to be used in the event that we need to contact you. Any personal information you provide is password protected, and we will never share your details with a third party.

Content Policy

Any comments, articles or videos submitted to the site become the copyright of StartGame, who reserve the right to use the content in any manner we see fit, unless an agreement is otherwise met between the contributor and administrator.

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

As such, you are free to to copy, distribute and transmit our content, but you must provide a working link back to the original StartGame article. You may not use the content for commercial purposes, and you may not alter, transform, or build upon the content.

Advertising

As we are dedicated to giving independent studios a helping hand, the header banner on the site is available for use for free if you meet certain requirements, but is unavailable for other uses.

Advertising will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, so if you are interested please send us a message using the contact form with the subject “Advertising”.

Additional Information

StartGame is hosted by Gem Webhosting, powered by the WordPress blogging platform, and uses a heavily modified Arras Theme. For more information on Gem Webhosting you can contact touski using toutski@gmail.com.

Special thanks to colossalblue, cc_star, kissablekirst, Kevling and Raen for their input into the site, and to dark_knight88 for his prize donation.