Editorial Policy

Our Goal

Rendered News publishes evergreen explainers and guides about game graphics, rendering technology, game engines and game development. Our goal is accuracy and clarity. This page explains how we choose topics, how we check facts and what we do when we get something wrong.

How We Choose Topics

We focus on questions players and aspiring developers genuinely ask and that stay relevant beyond a single patch or driver release: what a rendering technique does, what a graphics setting changes, how an upscaler or frame generation works, how engines differ and how games are actually made. We avoid leaks, rumours and launch-week hot takes. We do not publish hardware buying guides, benchmarks or gambling content.

Research and Fact-Checking

Technical descriptions are checked against primary sources: engine documentation and release notes, graphics vendors’ developer pages, API specifications and published conference talks.
Version numbers, feature availability and licensing terms are checked on the official websites of the engine or technology concerned.
Release dates and historical facts are checked against official announcements and reputable outlets or reference works.
Engines, SDKs and drivers change often, so where details can change we state the version or point in time they refer to, for example “as of 2026” or “in Unreal Engine 5.7”.
If we cannot verify a claim, we leave it out. We do not invent quotes, performance figures, statistics, prices or personal experiences.

Sources

Each article ends with a list of the main sources we used, linked so readers can check them. We prefer primary sources such as official documentation, developer blogs and technical papers.

Use of AI Tools

AI tools assist our team with research organisation and drafting. Every article is then fact-checked against sources and edited by a person before publication. Responsibility for what we publish rests with our editorial team, not with any software.

Authorship

Articles are published under the pen name Elliot Varga, which represents our small independent editorial team. We do not attribute credentials or experience to the pen name that we do not have.

Corrections and Updates

If you find an error, please email [email protected] with the article link and, ideally, a source. We review every report. Factual errors are corrected promptly, and significant corrections are noted at the end of the article with the date of the update. We also review evergreen articles periodically when new engine versions or technologies change the picture.