Section 04
Who's writing this
Three writers between Karachi and Lahore, covering games for the people who play them here. No publisher, no retailer, no esports org standing behind us.
How it started
OnlineGamesPK started in 2021 as a group chat about which phones could actually hold a frame rate. Everyone in it had been burned the same way: you read a review, the review was written by someone holding a flagship on a fibre line in another country, you bought the game, and it ran like a slideshow in the ninth minute because your phone was hot and your connection was doing its evening thing.
The gap wasn't information. There's plenty of information. The gap was that almost none of it was written from here, on the hardware people here own, at the prices people here pay.
What we cover
Mobile shooters, fighting games, football, and PC gaming on a budget — roughly in that order, because that's roughly what people around us play. We cover hardware when the price moves, because a GPU price in Rawalpindi is a real event in a way that a US MSRP announcement isn't. We cover the local competitive scene because nobody else covers it properly and it deserves better than a highlight clip.
We don't cover everything, and we won't pretend to. If a big game launches and it's irrelevant to how you play, you'll hear about it from us in one line, or not at all.
How it's funded
Two sources: a clearly labelled sponsor slot in the newsletter, and readers who chip in. That's it. We're not owned by a publisher, a retailer or an esports organisation, and no advertiser has ever seen a review before it ran.
If that ever changes — if we take investment, get acquired, or start running a different kind of advertising — this paragraph changes first, and it goes in the newsletter before it goes anywhere else. A publication that hides its funding is telling you something about the rest of its work.
Mistakes
We make them. When we do, we fix the piece, put a note at the bottom saying what changed and when, and mention it in the next issue. We don't quietly edit and hope. If you've caught something, [email protected] goes straight to all three of us.
The full editorial policy — reviews, sponsorship, affiliate links, corrections — is on the how we work page.
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The week's news, one review, one guide, and the local tournament calendar. Written by the same three people who write everything else here. If it's a slow week, we send you a short email — not a padded one.
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