Kyusai exists first and foremost to tell stories from the gaming, tech, and esports world. In the months since we’ve launched, we’ve covered the hottest game releases, the biggest esports tournaments, and the latest cutting-edge tech. To continue providing world-class, independent coverage, we need your help.
Supporting Kyusai means you believe in the power of independent gaming, tech, and esports journalism. To make things as straightforward and rewarding as possible, we’ve established tiers with benefits and bonuses that give back to those who keep funding our mission.
Explaining Kyusai’s membership tiers
There are four tiers of Kyusai memberships available, all of which can be accessed through the floating Ko-Fi button on all our stories. Alternatively, here’s a direct link to our tiers and their respective cost.
Petal Tier (Green) – £5 a month (Approximately $6.76 / €5.76)
- Access to the Discord server (Including giveaways and tournaments)
Blossom (Blue) – £10 a month (Around $13.52 / €11.49)
- Access to Members-only merch drops
- Public recognition across Kyusai’s social media channels
- Includes all previous perks
Everbloom (Purple) – £25 a month (Around $33.81 / €28.72)
- Special Discord role – Stand out in chat with a unique color
- Access to the Suggestion Box – a direct line to the Kyusai team
- Includes all previous perks
Lotus (Gold) – £50 a month (Around $67.63 / €57.44)
- Annual free merch (one premium item per year)
- Exclusive Kyusai care package (handwritten thank you + stickers)
- Highest-level Discord role, including a unique channel
- Includes all previous perks
More ways of supporting Kyusai
Financially backing Kyusai means we can keep covering your favorite games, tech, and esports, but it’s not the only way to show your support. We’ve also launched the Kyusai Newsletter, which we’ll aim to release often, and you can sign up for via email.
Additionally, sharing our stories and spreading the word about what we’re doing helps massively. You’ll always see quick and easy buttons to our social pages at the bottom of each news story and long-form feature.
Why you should support Kyusai
Kyusai’s mission statement promises salvation from the current media landscape. That’s core to our existence as a site, brand, and team. We’re a group of experienced senior journalists who have seen firsthand exactly how bad things can get in this business. We will never litter our site with advertisements, push gambling, or use AI across what we do.
More legacy media outlets are relying on automation, slimming their workforces to skeleton crews, and pivoting to slop content just to keep up appearances. You’ve no doubt seen the record number of layoffs across not only the games industry but also the media landscape.
Supporting Kyusai directly shows this business that you care about high-quality, curated gaming, tech, and esports stories. By joining our newsletter, following our socials, and subscribing to one of our membership tiers, you can help prove that there’s still a place for true, no-filler media in 2026.
We’ve more than proven what we can do in the few months since we launched. Highlights of our brief history so far include partnering with Razer for our exclusive DreamHack Birmingham coverage, attending the Red Bull Wololo: Londinium Grand Finals, and interviewing OVR Technology, the team behind Screamer, Balor Games, and others.
That’s to say nothing of the dozens of reviews we’ve published to date, tackling everything from the Secretlab Magnus Pro, to World of Warcraft Midnight, Project Songbird, and even The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. We’ve been championing indies, earned your trust with tech, and deliver verdicts free of arbitrary review scores because we respect your time. Let’s continue innovating and elevating together.
