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God… They look professional, don’t they? Sadly, this is a stolen stock photo – we look nothing like this.

Here at The Daily Pixel, we have a problem.

You see, there’s simply too much news happening at any given moment for us to capture it all and we’re in dire need of highly trained journalist-types to help us out.

We need people that don’t mind getting their hands dirty, people that don’t care that it’s 10pm and they’re still at their desk, people that don’t get all up tight about a little bit of “sexual harassment”. If that sounds like you, read on.

Do you know a thing or two about video games and news? Well hold onto those thoughts because we need to extract them from you. The easiest and most painless method would be for you to send us a sample of your work and, if we like it, we’ll throw it up on the site and claim it as our own.

In the early days we could offer nothing in return for this hard work and instead begged kindhearted people to take pity on our pathetic website by working for free. However, times are a-changin’, and we’ve taken the decision to start paying individuals who submit high quality content.

From now on any individual that submits a story that we publish will be awarded a flat rate payment of $5.00 (USD), with all payments made via PayPal.

Please send any original submissions to the following address and, if we like it, we’ll be in touch.

staff@thedailypixel.com

Would-be writers take note:

  • All content submitted must be original (we check)
  • Please only submit complete stories as rough ideas and titles are no good to anyone
  • Don’t worry about images, we’ll sort this out if we agree to publish your story
  • We may edit your submission prior to publication, although we will discuss this with you beforehand
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  • We receive a large number of submissions and obviously not everything gets used. If you don’t hear back from us within a few days chances are we didn’t feel your story was quite right for the site. But don’t get downhearted about it… Why not send us something else?

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    The small patch of land, approximately two-metres across, was discovered by 52-year-old Thomas Phillips in a quiet residential cul-de-sac close to his home in North Shoebury. The site has since become a hotspot for thousands of frustrated EE customers as they scramble to experience the elusive fourth G for themselves.

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  • Gaming Microsoft apologises for employing aggressive 14-year-old school boy as creative director

    Microsoft apologises for employing aggressive 14-year-old school boy as creative director

    In wake of the outrage surrounding Adam Orth’s condescending and hostile defense of always-online consoles, Microsoft has admitted it may have been a mistake to employ the belligerent teenager as its chief creative director.

    Following a series of outrageous twitter posts in which angsty Orth told fans that they’d just have to #dealwithit, that he’d rather die than go to Janesville and that no one understood him, Microsoft today announced that it had grounded the little tearaway and suspended all pocket money with immediate effect.

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  • Gaming Nothing better with Kinect, say scientists

    Nothing better with Kinect, say scientists

    A team of scientists at Cambridge University, England, have concluded that absolutely nothing can be improved, bettered or enhanced through the use of Microsoft’s popular motion sensing input device.

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    As the current generation of consoles draws to a close, gamers have voted getting the disc out the box without snapping it the single most terrifying moment of the last 7 years.

    Despite tough competition from well-known horror franchises including Resident Evil, Dead Space and Silent Hill, the act of actually removing a modern video game from the clutches of its plastic case has nevertheless been deemed infinitely more scary than anything likely to be contained on the disc itself.

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    Following the announcement that it would be putting microtransactions into all of its new games, recent reports coming out of EA suggest that the publishing giant has secret plans to extend the policy to include micro payments in literally everything it does, reports the company said it would strenuously deny if reporters paid it three dollars to do so.

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