Titanquisitor is an independent entertainment blog dedicated to gaming, movies, pro wrestling, music, sports, and whatever else catches our attention. It’s largely a one-man operation. It is an opinion site first and foremost, with a specific sense of humor, and as such, I don’t pretend to be professional or mainstream. This site is a hobby project for fun, not a strictly business endeavor.
I also believe readers deserve to know how the site operates, how our reviews are handled, and who’s responsible for the content published here. So here’s how things work in the Halls.
No Press Events
No one at Titanquisitor will attend press events on a publisher’s dime. We will not accept invitations to be flown out for press events or for “hands-on” time with games.
This ban also means no one at Titanquisitor will ever attend a review event (this is where publishers fly reviewers out and the game is played in a controlled environment).
No Swag
Titanquisitor does not accept gifts of any value. Publishers, if you send these, we’re likely to send it back to you. Of course, if we do receive any gifts, we’ll inform our readers and let them know what course of action was taken; either gifts returned, donated, or simply trashed.
Review Copies
We do accept review copies of video games, DVD/Blu-ray, and books. If we receive a product for review, we’ll always disclose that the product was provided by the publisher.
No, we don’t consider review copies to be gifts; we consider them necessary for the site, since if we had to buy every game there wouldn’t be many reviews posted.
Review Scale
Titanquisitor is not now, nor is it likely to ever be, included in Metacritic or any other review aggregator. Metacritic is bad for the developers, bad for the consumers, and bad for the reviewers. We don’t want to be a part of that crowd.
As a result, we no longer use the games media standard of a 10, 20, or 100 point scale that only operates on one end of the spectrum. We use a five-star scale without half stars. We go from 0, the worst of the worst, all the way to 5, the best of the best. You can read all about our review scale here.
Review copies have no influence on the number of stars a game receives. We aren’t concerned with pleasing the PR reps or the publishers in general. All review copies sent to us are done so under the agreement that we’ll provide an honest review of the game. Our number one priority is to inform our readers on our honest opinion of a game; publishers don’t matter to us.
Advertising
As part of the AdSense program, ALL ads are handled by AdSense and their partners. We have no say over any of it. We also, on occasion, link to products we talk about on Amazon as we are part of their Associate program. Affiliate links are always disclosed. And of course we advertise our own products; these are marked as Halls Classifieds.
In the interest of complete disclosure, we make roughly $1 for every 500 people who see an ad. Most of our visitors are using ad-blockers, so we’re making practically nothing from these ads. That’s okay; we use ad-blockers too.
Since we don’t sell advertising, we aren’t reliant on gaming publishers to keep the site running. Those of you who can see ads on the site, enjoy your Cheerios commercials and random lists about what celebrities are doing.
AI, AUTHORSHIP & EDITORIAL STANDARDS
Titanquisitor uses artificial intelligence (mainly ChatGPT) as part of its creative and editorial operations, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. AI helps with some drafting, research assistance, proofreading, brainstorming, editing, and the development of our fictional editorial personalities. I also use ChatGPT to create the artwork for the site. I understand people complain about that and say hire a real artist, but considering I make almost no money from the site, I use the tools available. It’s not taking away a job from a human, because I wouldn’t be able to pay a person to do it in the first place.
Our crew includes Titan, Theia, Thalia, and Maddie, each with their own established personality, interests, and editorial voice. These are fictional characters developed and maintained through AI-assisted writing, while Stinger and Patriot are pen names representing different sides of my own personality and opinions. They’re part of Titanquisitor’s identity, and I’m rather fond of them.
Articles published under Gary Smith’s name (and that of Stinger or Patriot) reflect my own substantial writing, ideas, and direct editorial involvement. AI may assist with proofreading, corrections, organization, editing, and occasionally drafts from extensive notes, but I do not treat an untouched AI-generated draft as an independently written Gary Smith article.
Content published under our fictional editorial personalities may be substantially AI-generated or AI-assisted but built off detailed notes and directions, guided by the characters’ established perspectives and the website’s editorial direction. These bylines represent the creative voices of Titanquisitor, not separate human employees.
We believe AI can be a useful creative tool, but it is not a substitute for editorial responsibility. AI-generated information can be inaccurate, outdated, or entirely fabricated. We aim to verify factual claims, quotations, dates, and other relevant details before publication, and we remain responsible for correcting mistakes when they occur.
Our objective is to produce entertaining, original, personality-driven content that readers enjoy. We aren’t interested in flooding the internet with meaningless articles simply because a machine can produce them at astonishing rates. Again, as a one-man operation who does this for fun as a hobby in free time, the use of AI helps produce slightly more content than I could generate without its assistance, and the use of personality-driven characters keeps everything on the site from sounding exactly the same.
I’m not interested in padding the site with meaningless articles just to chase search engine traffic. I use AI because it helps me create more of the content I actually enjoy publishing. If you have a moral problem with AI and its usage, this isn’t the site for you, but big mainstream sites use it too, so good luck completely avoiding it. Again, if you see something with a byline of Titan, Theia, Thalia, or Maddie, AI (ChatGPT) played a large role in its publishing, but even their articles come from extensive notes, and the AI drafts their articles from those notes in their character’s voice.
CORRECTIONS & ACCOUNTABILITY
We make mistakes. Sometimes it’s a typo, sometimes it’s an incorrect date, and sometimes something that appeared accurate when published turns out to be wrong.
When we discover a factual error, we’ll make a reasonable effort to correct it. Significant corrections may be acknowledged within the article so readers understand what changed.
Opinions are another matter. We don’t consider a negative review or an unpopular editorial position an error simply because somebody disagrees with it.
EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE
Titanquisitor’s editorial decisions are made for Titanquisitor and its readers. Advertisers, publishers, publicists, and other outside parties do not get to dictate our opinions or demand favorable coverage.
We cover subjects that interest us, write about things we enjoy, and occasionally complain about things that irritate us. Some days that means celebrating a terrific video game. Other days it means Stinger questioning whether a wrestling promotion’s creative department has suffered a collective head injury.
That’s the nature of an opinionated entertainment website, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Titanquisitor — Making Internet Fun Again.
* And by “Making Internet Fun Again,” I mean making it fun again for myself in my own little corner of the Web. This is a blog in the wrappings of an entertainment site, I publish it for my own enjoyment and creative outlet first, and if other people enjoy reading it, then that’s great too.
– Last updated November 9, 2026.