Join The Team

We have some jobs open now!

- Contributors for Daily News (Voluntary)

- PC Reviewer (needs a gaming spec PC)

Email:

henry.m@thegamershub.co.uk

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Interested in Video Game Journalism and want to join our team?

Send a brief sample of your work to the-team@thegamershub.co.uk and the name of your TheGamersHub account.  After reviewing your sample we’ll get in touch to activate your account and invite you to join the team.

What is TheGamersHub?

TheGamersHub is all about video game news, reviews and features. It also looks at the emerging areas of gaming that do not get a lot of mainstream media attention. A full list of subjects that our writers to try cover is below:

• Video Game News, Reviews, Features
• Gaming industry and the business of games
• Gaming technology
• Indie Games
• The Mind, Body, Soul impacts of gaming
• Casual Gaming
• Top 5’s

Writing for TheGamersHub lets you show your ability as a journalist, gives you a personal portfolio of work collected together in your Writer’s Profile, puts your work in front of thousands of readers and gives you access to exclusive news sources and press agencies that would not other wise be available.

- Try to write your articles in 4 sections:

Article guide

1 – An introduction that summarises the whole article and what its conclusions or findings are.
2 – First paragraph of main material of the article, or first point(s) in your article
3 – Second paragraph of main material, or seconday main points.
4 – Conclusion, summary of what you’ve said and what your final/lasting thought on the subject is.

- Article length should be about 300-400 words long.

- If you need or want to write longer articles go for it! try splitting it into “part 1″ “part 2″ etc so that posts don’t get too long – readers generally prefer short, snappy, blog-style and easy to read articles.

- We recommend writing it in Word first, and then pasting it on to site, so you don’t risk losing your article.

A guide to the fields you’ll need to fill in when creating your content:

First:
1 – Log in

2 – Click Dashboard

3 – Click  Posts

4 – Click add new

Please note: You must have been given the job to get-to the admin panel.

Title:

Enter a title for your article – something relevant to the article and exciting enough to want people to read it!

Category

Select the most relevant category – select from the drop down menu. Put an article in a max of 3 categories. Always assign at least one category. If there’s no relevant category put it in Gaming Blogs, your editor will sort it out.

Body

Paste in your article that you’ve pre-written in Word. Add any formatting that you need and any links.  You may need to add in or take away line breaks to sort the allignment and formatting out.

Meta tags

- Keywords: Enter 4 or 5 keywords or short phrases to describe your article

Click preview to preview article, or Submit to set it live on the site.

Should you need to re-edit your article again, make sure you are logged into the site, find the article, view it, and click edit. Only the author of an article can edit it.

How much and when to post?

Writing for TheGamersHub should be about enjoying the industry we all love – gaming! – while building up a portfolio of good quality articles. While we are asking that writers post 2 articles of 300-400 words in length each week, some weeks you may not be able to do this, and some weeks you may want to do more. Try to use 2 articles of 300-400 words in length as a guide. There’s no preference as to when to post your content. The more active you are the more TheGamersHub points you’ll earn – see below!

Article Rules and Guidelines

-Don’t rip off and directly copy someone else work from another site or another game hub writer.
- It’s fine to use the facts and details of an article found on another site as the basis of your article, but the opinions, style, theme and bulk of the content must be yours
- Don’t submit anything that is untrue
- Don’t submit anything that is unjustly harsh on anyone or anything else.
- Link to a maximum of 1 external site per article – this must be a legitimate and respected site – we don’t want TheGamersHub to be seen to link to or associate with bad sites.

Where to get your stories from

-Set up a google news/google alerts account and get it to send daily updates on the themes you are going to write on. This will help you pick up on up-to-date stories. Suggested keywords are things like: gaming, esports, video game news, gaming studies, gaming business, mobile gaming etc etc.

-Check the official press and press release pages of relevant companies

-Sourcing facts and information from other sites is fine, but you must present it in your own way and not copy it.

- Try to register an account here: http://www.gamespress.com/. Because you’ll be registering with a non-TheGamersHub address they might ask you who you write for and why you’re applying.  Say you are a content writer for www.TheGamersHub.co.uk and tell them to contact the-team@thegamershub.co.uk if they have any questions.

- Check the national press and news sites for any relevant games stories that have made it into them. Remember not to copy though.

- Over time you’ll pick up on the best sites to source stories from for you.

This is what makes TheGamersHub the best gaming website to write for on the internet! Maybe.

TheGamersHub Points

For every piece of content you write you’ll earn TheGamersHub points. And for every comment on someone else’s article you make, you’ll also earn TheGamersHub points. TheGamersHub points are identifiers of how active you are on the site and signify how much content you’ve contributed to it. They show how much you’ve helped to develop the site and help you show off how much you’ve contributed to the community.

20 points for every article you write
4 points for every comment you make

All points are moderated and approved by me and they’ll be approved 99 times out of 100 but the moderation has to go through admin to stop abuse of it.

Your Profile – Your games journalism profile

All content that you write, together with some personal information and contact details will be placed into your profile – that you can use to showcase your portfolio of work at TheGamersHub. This is fantastic to show off what you’ve achieved and give as a reference of the quantity and quality of your work.

Happy Writing!!

Kind regards,

Admin.

-TheGamersHub Team.