Template:Non-free video game screenshot

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots

to visually identify the game in question
on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

constitutes fair use under United States copyright law. Other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use

To the uploader:

This tag should only be used for video game screenshots.
Please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For an example fair use rationale, see here.
Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game screenshot.
Additionally, please specify at least one platform in the first parameter. See usage below.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an 'appropriate' rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

Usage:

This template accepts the platform(s) as parameters to better categorize the tagged image.

{{Non-free video game screenshot|Windows|Macintosh|Linux}}

or

{{Non-free video game screenshot|Windows}}

or just

{{Non-free video game screenshot}}

if the platform is unknown. (For the platform names you can use, see the subcategories of Category:Screenshots of video games.)

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