It has been said or shown by the owner of the fact — Rockstar for the game, Sony for its own controller. Nothing less.
The method
How we work
We update the Archive every day, with the discipline of an investigative newsroom. This page spells out exactly how: where we look, how we cross-check every finding, how we put a credibility label on it and how we fix whatever turns out to be wrong — start to finish. You don't have to trust us blindly; the mechanism is right here.
The one principle
We'd rather write nothing at all than write something uncertain as if it were certain.
Everything else is simply how we hold to that principle without compromise. Every claim on the site carries a source, every source carries a link, and no label climbs any higher than its source can bear.
Open net, strict filter
Two things that often get confused: where we look and how much we trust. We keep them separate — and that may be the most important thing on this page.
- The net is open. No list of sources limits where we look. A signal can come from an unknown site, from a Greek blog, from a comment, from you. Everything is a candidate finding — nothing gets rejected because “it's not on the list”.
- The filter is strict. The entry point decides nothing. Wherever the signal came from, we climb to the most primary source we can reach, we read it in full, and that sets how high the label can go.
In a sentence: flexible in how we confirm, never restricted in where we look.
Whose fact is it
“Official” doesn't mean “Rockstar said it”. It means it was said by whoever owns it. For the game itself — mechanics, story, dates — the only authority is Rockstar. For a Sony controller, a console, a store, a subscription, the authority is Sony or Microsoft, from their own channel. For a shelf price, the retailer. Before we search, we ask: whose fact is this? — and we go to them first.
The four credibility labels
We don't serve rumors as facts. Every piece of information gets one of four labels — and you always see it right beside it.
It shows up in official material or is reported by journalism with a track record — but it has never been stated in words by the owner.
It's doing the rounds, with no confirmation. We run it as a rumor or not at all.
Proved wrong. We keep it on file so it doesn't come back around.
The ceiling rule: a rumor never becomes “Confirmed” just because a big site says it. The label follows the kind of source, not how loudly it shouts.
How each piece of information gets graded
Every piece of information climbs the same ladder, in the same order. That's how we can maintain hundreds of entries without losing control — the method doesn't change with volume.
- What exactly did the source say? We log it as stated (in words), shown (in official material) or interpretation (someone is inferring it). An interpretation never becomes a fact.
- What kind of source is it? Owner of the fact from their own channel · official material · journalism with a track record · analyst · retailer · community · leak. Every kind has a ceiling — the highest the label is allowed to reach. A leak never goes past Rumor, no matter how many people repeat it.
- Does it hold up independently? A fresh read of the primary source, cross-checking. The label that finally goes on is at or below the ceiling — never above.
- What do we NOT know? Next to every piece of evidence, the gap that remains is spelled out (“which retailers — unknown”, “unlock time — not announced”). An unknown you declare is information; an unknown you forget is an error.
- When? Two dates, always: when the event happened and when it entered the Archive. If they differ, you see it — we don't rebrand anything as “new”.
The daily cycle
Every morning at 09:00 Athens time, the same cycle runs. We don't wait for “something big to drop” — we work the window from the previous update until now, whatever it holds.
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1 · Detection — the floor and the net
These get swept every day, always — no matter how loaded the day is. That's the floor; above it, the net is open:
- Rockstar itself: Newswire, the official site, its YouTube channel (videos often go up there before it links them anywhere else), store pages, Take-Two's announcements to investors.
- The platforms: PlayStation.Blog and Xbox Wire, daily — and every showcase (State of Play, Xbox showcase, The Game Awards) goes into our calendar the moment it's announced, with a full sweep the next day.
- Hardware, editions, bundles, pre-orders: anything you can buy. It's the reason the Readiness Guide exists.
- The international front-line press: IGN, GameSpot, Eurogamer / Digital Foundry, Bloomberg (Jason Schreier), PC Gamer, GamesRadar, Push Square, Game Informer — plus second-line outlets that have proven reliable.
- Community & leaks: we read them, but only as text. We never link to leaked material.
- Scam-watch: we actively hunt the scams — fake “beta invites”, forged soundtracks, key scams — so we're the first to debunk them.
- Analysts & market: forecasts, the stock, Greek retail. Always marked explicitly as The Read, not fact.
Before the check even starts, an engine reads 23 sources every morning (the official channels, the platforms, the international and the Greek press, Reddit) and separates what's new since yesterday — so nothing already known slips past. A fixed grid of questions runs every day no matter what's absorbing us — so the day's big story never becomes a reason to miss everything else. And at the end of each day we write down explicitly what we didn't look at. Every finding is tagged from the first moment: stated / appears / interpretation — along with the source and its link.
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2 · Cross-checking — the Validator
Nothing doubtful goes in “in the heat of the moment”. Anything that isn't cleanly official goes on hold, and the next day it faces an adversarial check — one that is literally trying to reject it:
- We re-verify every source, independently and from scratch. We don't trust yesterday's finding — we look at it again with fresh eyes.
- The level is set by the most primary source we reached, not the one that brought it to us. A comment that led us to an official announcement earns Confirmed; an official announcement carried only by a journalist's summary stays Solid.
- To downgrade or reverse something already Confirmed, we require two independent sources. One isn't enough.
- The outcome is one of three: Approved (it goes in) · Rejected — and rejection is a valid, honest outcome, not a failure · Undecided (stays on hold, with a deadline: if nothing backs it up, it drops on its own).
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3 · Quality gates — before it goes live
Before anything is published, it passes automated checks: data integrity, zero broken links, zero orphan pages, every image and video live. One failure at any gate = nothing gets published. Better a silent day than shipping something broken.
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4 · Publishing & verification
We publish only when there's genuinely new content. A quiet day means “radio silence” — no fake motion to keep the site looking “fresh”. And once the update is out, we go back and confirm it actually went live on the site. If something didn't make it, it becomes the next day's priority — we don't hide it.
Five laws that keep us honest
Open net, strict filter
No list limits where we look. The rigor lives in how we confirm — and the level is set by the most primary source we reached, not the one that brought it to us.
Every fact has an owner
“Official” is whatever the owner says: Rockstar for the game, Sony for its controller, the store for its price. We look there first.
The outcome beats the source
Even an official source doesn't automatically push through a change that downgrades something, reverses its substance, or touches buying advice. Those always need human judgment.
A silent miss is a failure
Anything the research turned up that didn't lead anywhere useful is written down explicitly as an open item — it doesn't just vanish. An unknown that gets forgotten is worse than an unknown that gets stated.
Same fact, no fake freshness
We don't rebrand an old fact to make it look new. A shelf price in Greece, for instance, is new information — it doesn't replace Rockstar's official price.
Leaks, spoilers & scams — what we DON'T do
- Leaks: described in text only, never a link to or a copy of leaked material. Geography from a leak stays in a separate “pending confirmation” zone — never on the regular map as if it were settled.
- Spoilers: nothing beyond what Rockstar has shown officially. We don't spoil the game for anyone.
- Glitches, cheats & terms-of-service workarounds: we don't publish them.
- Clickbait & fake “leaks”: never. And we don't lift numbers off other sites and pretend we measured them ourselves.
- Rockstar material: we don't host it — we point to the official sources.
English here, Greek at /el/
Everything you read here is in English — the Greek original lives at /el/. Every statement in another language gets translated — the original (English, Japanese, whatever) is never dropped in as if it were the “proof” all by itself. The goal is for you to understand, not to be impressed by pasted-in foreign text.
Corrections — in the open
We make mistakes. When it happens, we fix it and we log it — we don't quietly delete things. Every addition, label change and correction goes into the Archive Log, so you can see what changed and when. If you spot something wrong, tell us and it gets changed.
When we miss something
We miss things. Not often — but when it happens, we don't bury it in silence: we date it, we say why, and we change the method, not just the entry. A mistake that gets explained becomes method; a mistake that gets hidden becomes the next mistake.
What we missed. Sony announced two limited-edition DualSense controllers for GTA VI at the State of Play on 3 September. They went into the Archive on the 6th — three days late, and the daily update on the 4th covered exactly that window.
Why. Not one day's carelessness — it was structural. Detection ran off a channel list where PlayStation.Blog was checked once a week. “Official” meant Rockstar only, so a Sony announcement about its own product had no slot that even allowed “Confirmed”. And the sites that would have headlined it were out of reach for our tool, while the primary source sat wide open — we just weren't looking there that day.
What changed. “Whose fact is it” became a rule. Platforms and showcases moved onto the daily beat. A fixed grid of queries runs every day, however loaded the day is. And every daily report now states explicitly what wasn't checked — so the gap never goes invisible again. The receipt: #164.
The cadence
The full cycle, 09:00 — detection, cross-checking, gates, publication.
Deeper checks: ESRB/PEGI, patents, community mapping, old links still live.
Full-depth research across every area, plus a sweep of Greek retail.
As launch closes in (12–26 November), the cadence goes to three times a day, with priority on measured, real data — prices, availability, times.
And you
If you see something — a price in a store, an official post, a detail — you can submit it to the Club, under “I saw something”. Every submission goes through exactly the same check as anything else: fresh, independent verification, a label inside the source's ceiling. Nothing gets in because “somebody said so”.