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1. Using GameCrunch.net

GameCrunch.net helps you discover gaming coverage and follow upcoming games. It brings together headlines, links, limited excerpts, images, release information, and automated story groupings and rankings. It currently offers no paid subscriptions or pay-to-rank placement.

Account features are available only where you may lawfully use them. If you are under the age of legal adulthood where you live, review these Terms with a parent or legal guardian and obtain their permission where required. Nothing here limits rights or protections the law gives children or their parents or guardians.

2. Stories, Rankings, And Release Dates

Rankings help organize coverage from selected sources; they are not an exhaustive measure of importance, quality, or truth. Automated collection and grouping can make mistakes. Excerpts and summaries may leave out context, and source reports may be disputed, corrected, or withdrawn. Read the linked original reporting before relying on a claim. If AI-assisted summaries or descriptions are provided, the same limits apply: they are reading aids, not independent verification of the reporting.

Release dates can change and may differ by platform or region. A month, quarter, or year indicates a release window rather than an exact date. TBA means that a release date is not yet available. Countdowns use the displayed calendar date in Central Time, not a guaranteed launch hour. Recorded release updates cover changes observed by this catalog, not every earlier announcement.

Downloaded calendar files are snapshots and do not update automatically. Check the official publisher or storefront before making plans or purchases. Adding a game to your Watchlist does not reserve or purchase the game or guarantee access to it. Corrections can be reported through the contact address above.

3. Accounts, Watchlists, And 1UPs

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Keep your devices, passkeys, and recovery code secure. Anyone with the recovery code can replace your passkeys. Successful recovery signs out existing sessions and gives you a replacement code. A username alone cannot recover an account; without a working passkey or recovery code, access may be permanently lost. Contact the operator about suspected unauthorized access, but never email your recovery code or private credentials.

Your account stores the games and platforms on your Watchlist so you can follow them across devices. Your Watchlist stays private. You can give each story one 1UP and remove it at any time. Voter identities are not published, and 1UPs do not affect news rankings. Adding a game to your Watchlist or giving a 1UP does not transfer ownership of any content. The information needed to operate these features is handled as explained in Privacy & Accounts.

You can stop watching games on Releases, remove your 1UPs on story cards, and delete your reader account in account settings. Deletion removes the account, its Watchlist, any retired story bookmarks, and its 1UPs from the active database. Restricted backups may temporarily retain deleted records, and aggregate account totals remain, as the privacy page explains.

4. Respecting The Site And Other People

You may browse, share links, use your Watchlist, and download the calendar exports provided by the site. Respect other people’s rights, access controls, and published rate limits.

Do not access another person’s account without permission, attempt to obtain private data, distribute malicious code, deliberately overload the service, or evade security restrictions. Do not use GameCrunch.net to infringe copyright, deceive others about your identity or affiliation, or otherwise break applicable law. Automated requests must not disrupt the site or bypass its limits. These rules do not restrict lawful accessibility tools, ordinary use of public feeds, or rights that applicable law preserves.

5. Content Ownership And External Services

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The operator claims only the rights that applicable law provides in GameCrunch.net’s original material, design, code, and branding. These Terms do not grant ownership of facts or public-domain material, override open-source licenses, or restrict fair use and other lawful exceptions.

Links, images, or rankings do not imply a partnership, approval, or endorsement by the source or game publisher. External sites and image hosts have their own practices and terms. Purchases or other arrangements you make there are with those providers, not GameCrunch.net.

6. Copyright And Attribution Concerns

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Reports will be reviewed and addressed as appropriate under applicable law, including through the correction, removal, or restriction of material where warranted. Publishers may use the same address to request feed exclusion or an attribution change. Include the source and affected links so the request can be reviewed.

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Access to the site or an account may be restricted when reasonably necessary to address abuse, security risks, a material breach of these Terms, or legal obligations. Where practical and lawful, the reason will be explained and an opportunity to correct the problem will be provided; urgent action may come first. You may email the operator to request a review. You may stop using the site and delete your account at any time.

8. Limitations And Your Legal Rights

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Nothing in these Terms excludes responsibility for fraud, intentional misconduct, conduct greater than ordinary negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Mandatory consumer protections and children’s and guardians’ rights remain intact. These Terms impose no obligation on you to reimburse the operator for third-party legal claims.

9. Disputes And Governing Law

Minnesota law and applicable United States federal law govern these Terms, except where applicable law requires otherwise. If you live elsewhere, you retain any mandatory consumer protections and access to courts that the law gives you.

You are welcome to email the operator to try to resolve a concern. Doing so is not a condition for bringing a claim or contacting a regulator and does not change legal deadlines. Either side may bring a claim in a court with lawful jurisdiction and venue, including an eligible small-claims court. These Terms require no arbitration and waive no right to a jury trial or participation in a class action.

10. Changes To These Terms

Revisions will be posted here with an updated date. Material changes will receive clear on-site notice before taking effect when reasonably practical. Urgent changes required by law or needed for security may take effect sooner. Renewed agreement will be requested where required. Revisions will not retroactively change disputes that have already arisen.

If a provision cannot lawfully be enforced, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law. A delay in enforcing a provision does not itself waive it.