Sourcing and standards

Every fact on Neonglades traces back to one of four places: Rockstar’s official site at rockstargames.com/VI and its subpages, Rockstar Newswire, Take-Two Investor Relations press releases and earnings materials, and platform storefronts — the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, and Rockstar Games Store listings. That is the whole list.

If something only exists on a fan wiki or in a syndicated write-up, we do not treat it as a fact we have. We do not scrape competitor sites, paraphrase their reporting, or use their work as a lead to quietly re-verify and keep. A claim either traces to one of the four sources above, or it is not a fact — it is, at most, a rumor we say plainly we are relaying.

No material from the 2022 breach, or any other leak, appears on this site — no footage, screenshots, source, strings, asset names, or model data. We do not support or condone leaking, datamining, reverse engineering, or asset extraction, and we publish nothing derived from them. Taking material that is not yours and putting it out is not a scoop, and every site that runs it is part of what makes the next one worth doing. That holds after launch too: our own captures of the shipped game as played are fine, anything pulled out of the game’s files is not.

A leaked fact does not become publishable because a fan wiki, a video, or a syndicated article repeated it. If the only trail back to a claim leads through stolen material, we do not have that fact, full stop. The same rule applies to anything submitted to us — map pins included.

Every claim on the ledger carries a status, and the words mean something specific: confirmed — Rockstar stated it directly; reported — someone outside Rockstar said it and we can say who, but Rockstar has not confirmed it; rumored — not established: either circulating with no citable origin, or our own inference, and each claim’s page says which; superseded — replaced by a newer, more specific claim; debunked — someone claimed it and it was disproved; officially denied — Rockstar said no.

Unannounced is the one worth pausing on, because it is easy to misread: unannounced means Rockstar has never said a thing about it, not that the thing is false. “No PC version announced” is not a claim that a PC version won’t happen; it is a statement that no one has said it will, as of the date we last checked. That date matters: an absence claim is only as good as the day it was last verified, and we re-check them on a schedule because a single Newswire post can flip one overnight.

Two situations don’t fit “Rockstar said it,” and we keep them visibly apart rather than blur them into the same gray area.

The first is our own reasoning — inferences like PC timing based on past Rockstar releases, or online-mode odds based on Take-Two’s business posture. We label these as our analysis, not as reporting, and they never carry a status of confirmed. They are our opinion about what’s likely, said as that.

The second is a claim circulating publicly with no citable origin we can point to — no named outlet, no on-the-record source, just something that’s out there. We do not adopt these as our own reporting and we do not pretend to know where they started. What we do is say plainly that a rumor is circulating, mark it as unverified, and let a reader see it for what it is. Relaying is not endorsing, and a claim sourced this way can never be marked confirmed — no matter how often it gets repeated elsewhere.

When we quote Rockstar — a character bio, a tagline, descriptive copy from a press release — it appears as a visible quotation, with an attribution line naming Rockstar Games and a link to the page it came from. A reader should never be unable to tell which words are Rockstar’s and which are ours.

Images work the same way: official Rockstar assets, screenshots, key art, and trailer stills, hosted on our own servers rather than hotlinked from anyone else, with every image recorded against the page it came from.