Break Into Video Game Writing - Get Free Games!

ShiBDiB · Dec 23, 2013

http://www.overlordgaming.us/

We've changed our posting policy, now anyone who's interested in writing for us can without fear of minimums! And people who enjoy writing and can deal with minimums can earn free games!!

So we're going to make a change to the content team that should allow people to either be active weekly contributors or less active contribute when bored or a fun topic comes up types. We are also implemented compensation/payments for active authors.

Contributors
- No minimum requirements
- Post when you want
- All content gets reviewed by an editor
- Content is not guaranteed to be posted
- Content may be saved an posted at a future date
- No compensation

Authors
- Weekly minimums (TBD)
- Must meet your weekly minimums. Failure to do so for 2 weeks during a 5 week block gets you demoted to contributor for 5 weeks.
- Content does not get reviewed and is instantly posted.
- Compensation based on rules below
- Must have shown prior work to be worthy of the position.

Compensation
- If an author meets the minimum requirements for 5 straight weeks he is rewarded with one free game of choice. Games must be of the digital variety and must not exceed $20.
- If an author proceeds to get a second 5 weeks of meeting minimums he will be rewarded with one free game of choice up to $60. At which point he is reset so that the next reward is back to $20.

If you're interested head over to http://overlordgaming.us/smf/index.php?topic=121.msg831#msg831 for details on how to apply.

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Any links in replies should be considered outdated

Flogger23m · Dec 23, 2013

Do you require having any previous writing/review work?

mafia97 · Dec 23, 2013

Hey hi,
I do reviews for my site www.hgunified.com
And make gameplay videos*no commentary* for my channel TheHGunified on youtube.

If you are interested, I can help

ShiBDiB · Dec 23, 2013

Flogger23m said:
Do you require having any previous writing/review work?

Nope we're open to anyone who's interested.

OP updated with the news article about it [url]http://overlordgaming.us/looking-for-staff[/URL]

ste2425 · Dec 23, 2013

ShiBDiB said:
Nope we're open to anyone who's interested.

OP updated with the news article about it http://overlordgaming.us/looking-for-staff/

Link throws 404 :/

ShiBDiB · Dec 23, 2013

ste2425 said:
Link throws 404 :/

Works fine for me. Might have caught me while I was resetting the server to update something.

mafia97 · Dec 23, 2013

Sir looking for staff link is not working.
BTW have you tried http://gamejournalismjobs.com/
you could find some talent there as well

ShiBDiB · Dec 23, 2013

Hmm strange it works for me and on my phone.

Try

http://overlordgaming.us/looking-for-staff

perhaps the last / was causing your browser to look into the next folder.

n-ster · Dec 23, 2013

Still doesn't work

ShiBDiB · Dec 23, 2013

Weird.. Still works fine for me on multiple browsers and my phone

If you manually type it into your address bar does it work?

Flogger23m · Dec 23, 2013

First link works, not the second (Looking for staff). It brings up the website but the page is not found.

ShiBDiB · Dec 23, 2013

http://overlordgaming.us/archives/121

Should be fixed.. something with the link format I was using caused the article to become bugged and flagged as being deleted.

ShiBDiB · Dec 24, 2013

Task Types - How to receive free games to review

Prove your worth and get compensated in free games to review (and keep)

Easy Rhino · Dec 24, 2013

ShiBDiB said:
You don't need to be a word class author,

obviously

NinkobEi · Dec 24, 2013

A friend of mine Axemaniac runs a great steam game review site. He's always looking to expand his user base.

Here's a sample

http://shotgaming.com/

jboydgolfer · Dec 24, 2013

Submitted My details, But got back an error claiming "Duplicate posting" "You've aready posted That"??

ShiBDiB · Dec 24, 2013

jboydgolfer said:
Submitted My details, But got back an error claiming "Duplicate posting" "You've aready posted That"??

You're supposed to email

Here's a good example of someone who's average at writing (me) putting out halfway decent news articles http://overlordgaming.us/archives/165

lyndonguitar · Dec 27, 2013

I'm interested, I can pretty much play and enjoy every game genre out there and I already wrote some past amateur reviews myself (steam, blogs, etc)

jboydgolfer · Dec 27, 2013

ShiBDiB said:
You're supposed to email

Here's a good example of someone who's average at writing (me) putting out halfway decent news articles http://overlordgaming.us/archives/165

I followed the link, which brought Me to a page with a E-Form to fill out, So I did. I didn't see an Email address when I saw this post 3 days ago. ;/

ShiBDiB · Dec 28, 2013

lyndonguitar said:
I'm interested, I can pretty much play and enjoy every game genre out there and I already wrote some past amateur reviews myself (steam, blogs, etc)

Email news@overlordgaming.us

We're also looking for streamers who would like to be sponsored. Info on that - http://overlordgaming.us/archives/401

lyndonguitar · Dec 28, 2013

ShiBDiB said:
Email news@overlordgaming.us

We're also looking for streamers who would like to be sponsored. Info on that - http://overlordgaming.us/archives/401

I have bad upload speed so while I wanted to stream and do video reviews so badly, I couldn't because I live in a third world country and our internet sucks.

I've read the requirements for the writer reviews, If I understand it correctly. I need to do at least 3 game reviews of my own choosing per week right?(aside from assigned reviews) I have written some reviews already(like on steam reviews and some of my blogs), If I somehow get accepted. can I use them on your site?

ShiBDiB · Dec 28, 2013

lyndonguitar said:
I have bad upload speed so while I wanted to stream and do video reviews so badly, I couldn't because I live in a third world country and our internet sucks.

I've read the requirements for the writer reviews, If I understand it correctly. I need to do at least 3 game reeviews of my own choosing per week right?(aside from assigned reviews) I have written some reviews already(like on steam reviews and some of my blogs), If I somehow get accepted. can I use them on your site?

We actually just changed the per week requirements, they're now.

Per week each content provider must do either..

3 News Posts (Game news, game preview, etc..)
1 Full Game Review (Written or youtube)
2 “Let’s Play”/Gameplay videos.

using your own old material is only acceptable if you can delete it from the old websites. It's against our policies for the same piece to be posted on multiple sites.

stinger608 · Dec 29, 2013

Shot ya a PM Shib regarding hardware reviewing.

ShiBDiB · Dec 30, 2013

stinger608 said:
Shot ya a PM Shib regarding hardware reviewing.

We could use a hardware reviewer. Our content team currently sits at 10 (with me being one and mostly acting as an editor) so we're about at our max for article writers. Still actively seeking one or 2 more. And definitely looking to add more streamers.

What I REALLY need is one or 2 people interested in being editors with some experience in the field.

Have a look at the site if you haven't in awhile, bunch of fresh game reviews posted.

Also if anyone is turned off by us using wordpress, rest assured I hate it aswell. Which is why I'm about 50% done with our joomla based site!

stinger608 · Dec 30, 2013

WordPress isn't bad, it just has a terrible forum interface.

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