§ Ethics
Ethics & disclosures
The rules we hold ourselves to. Every reviewer, every review, every affiliate link. If we fall short, this page is how you hold us to them.
§ Affiliate firewall
Affiliate links fund the site. They appear after the verdict, never before a score has been written, and never influence one. Editorial decides what gets reviewed and what it earns; commerce decides where the buy links point. The two sides do not trade notes.
We participate in the Amazon Associates programme, the Meta Quest Store affiliate programme, and PlayStation, Steam, and official publisher programmes where available. A qualifying purchase through one of our links earns the site a small commission at no cost to you.
§ Review units
Every review names its review-unit source in the disclosure block: purchased, review code, loan unit, preview build, or other. We do not return review hardware unless the loan agreement requires it; retained units stay with the reviewer and are not resold.
Publishers and platform holders do not see scores before publication. We do not send drafts for approval. Factual queries — "is this the correct release date?" — are allowed; editorial queries are not.
§ Conflicts of interest
Friendships, past employment, funding overlaps, and family ties are declared up-front on any review they could touch. If a reviewer has worked on a studio's prior project, they don't review the follow-up. If a staffer's partner works in VR PR, reviews covering that agency's clients go to someone else.
Freelancers disclose at pitch. Editors log disclosures in the commissioning sheet; the reader-facing note is a short line in the review's disclosure block.
§ Corrections
We correct errors of fact quickly and visibly. Small fixes (typos, broken links) are made silently. Anything that changes meaning — a wrong price, a misattributed developer, a misread mechanic — gets a dated correction note at the bottom of the review.
Spotted something wrong? Email corrections@6dofreviews.com. Include the URL and, if possible, a source.
§ Re-reviews
VR games are moving targets. Patches, live-service updates, and hardware refreshes change what a game actually is. When a game or device changes meaningfully we re-review — the new score supersedes the old, and we say what changed. Old scores stay visible in the audit history; they are not rewritten.
§ AI disclosure
We do not publish AI-generated review copy. Reviews are written by named human reviewers who have played the game or used the hardware. Tooling (spell-check, summarisation, image tagging for the CMS) may involve AI; the judgement, the prose, and the score do not.