The Wargamer's Operating Principles and Review Process
Our Operating Principles
Operate with integrity, enthusiasm, consideration of others, and in furtherance and support of military and historical gaming in all things we do.
Provide the very best online content and coverage for the enthusiast of military, historical, and strategy gaming.
Create added value for our readers by helping them make informed game play and purchase decisions and extending the life of the games they purchase through a wide variety of objective and accurate editorial and historical content, high-quality gaming support services, and software downloads that create or increase replay value.
Educate our readers about the value of military gaming within a historical context and about the historical context within military games.
Build and provide facilities for a community to freely exchanges ideas for the betterment of the genre for a community that ranges from casual gamers to the civilian and military gaming professionals.
Our Review Process
The Wargamer aims to provide our readers with the most comprehensive and independent game reviews available on the web. We do this by requiring our game reviewers to do more than just give readers a few paragraphs of game coverage. Our in-depth analysis seeks to comprehensively examine a game from a variety of angles and our writers must thoroughly examine each of these angles to insure that our readers have access to the most relevant information possible to provide short of playing the game.
We continue our pursuit of excellence by subjecting a written review to a rigorous editing and peer review process. Once an article has been written, a member of our select Editing Team then examines it not only for grammatical correctness, but also errors in logic and how “readable” it is. Once the Editor is satisfied with an article, it is then published internally and subject to yet another round of examination by our staff in a process we call Peer Review.
Only after our entire staff has had the opportunity to examine an article and offer input for historical, grammatical and logical accuracy it is then externally published and made available to our readers. This process is rigorous and time consuming, but The Wargamer’s goal is not necessarily to be the website with the first published review of a new game, but rather to be the site where gamers can turn to get the best and most comprehensive game analysis.