How to Break Into the Video Gaming Article Market

Do you have a passion for video games? If you do, breaking into the video game article market could be a good way to expand your freelance writing business. Countless video game websites and magazines cover console, mobile device, and Windows PC gaming, many of which are open to freelance article submissions. I have been a freelance gaming writer since about 2010 and will share some advice here for how you can break into this burgeoning article market.

What Are Video Game Articles?

You can write various types of video game articles for digital and print publications. Many gaming websites include video game guides, features, reviews, and news articles. Guide articles provide hints and tips for playing games. Reviews rate the latest game releases. News articles cover all the latest developments in the gaming industry, especially for new games and console releases. The feature pieces explore aspects of video gaming from many angles.

Search For Freelance Game Writer Vacancies

Video game websites often advertise their freelance vacancies on recruitment network sites. Websites such as Simply Hired, Pro Blogger, Blogging Jobs, Video Game Journalism, LinkedIn, Indeed, and Freelance Writing Jobs are good places to search for video game sites seeking regular contributors. Valnet and GAMURS Group are two digital media networks with numerous video game websites that frequently advertise remote vacancies on such recruitment websites.

To apply for freelance writing vacancies at video game sites, you’ll usually need to send at least a cover letter (email) expressing your interest in collaborating with them. Most gaming websites will ask to see some article samples from you on linked webpages or saved document files. You should also send a CV if requested.

However, you don’t always need to look through recruitment sites to find video game websites seeking freelance contributors. You can instead look for pages with write for us or contact links on video game websites advertising regular contributor vacancies. For example, I joined a video game website by filling out a contact form on a page with a “Write for us” heading. You can usually find such pages by clicking write for us or contact page links, often included at the bottom of websites.

Add Sample Articles to Medium

If you don’t have any online gaming article samples to show game websites you’re interested in joining, you can always add some to Medium. Medium is an online publishing platform where anybody with a Google, Apple, Facebook, or X account can submit articles. Click Sign in on this Medium page and choose a login method there. Then, you can submit some video game articles to Medium and show those samples to gaming websites and magazines.

Look for Submission Guidelines on Video Game Websites

Some video game (and more general entertainment) websites are open to freelance article submissions from outside contributors. Such gaming websites include submission guideline pages and offer variable remuneration (pay) for articles included on them. For example, sites like Restart, IGN, Games Industry.biz, and Geek Native offer remuneration ranging from $120 to $1,000 for video game articles.

You can find video game websites open to freelance article submissions by searching for them on Google. Search for video game sites with article submission guideline pages. To submit articles to gaming websites open to freelance submissions, you’ll usually need to pitch article titles to them first, with email addresses specified or contact forms on their pages.

It’s relatively straightforward to find video game websites seeking regular contributors or at least open to freelance article submissions. The article remuneration that such websites offer can vary widely, but there can be little doubt that video gaming is a big freelance writing market in terms of breadth of coverage. So, video gaming can be a fun, exciting, and potentially quite lucrative freelance article market to explore.

Author Bio:
Matthew Adams is a freelancer who has produced a variety of articles for various websites and magazine publications, such as KeenGamer, Retbit, Windows Report, Writer’s Digest, Tech Junkie, MakeUseOf, dotTech, TapScape, Games Errors, Retro Format, Pixel Addict, and Bright Hub. He has been a freelance gaming and tech (software) writer for more than 10 years. https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-adams-b8a170188/

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