List of video game websites

This is a list of video gaming-related websites. A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device,^[1] but it now implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images.

Video game websites

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Website	Launch	Closure	Owner/Publisher	Lang	Type of Site	Alexa Rank
1UP.com	2003	2013	Ziff Davis	EN	Magazine
4Player Podcast	2008			EN	Podcast
Addicting games	2001		Defy Media	EN		Online Game Portal
Adultswim.com			Turner Entertainment Digital	EN	Videos and games portal
Adventure Gamers	1998			EN	Magazine	99,898 (February 2015)[2]
Allgame	1998	2014	All Media Network	EN	Database
Amazon Digital Game Store	2009			EN	Digital distribution portal
Armor Games	2004			EN	Online game portal	2,004 (April 2014)[3]
Australian Gamer	2005	2012		EN	Podcast, comic
Awomo				DE	Digital distribution portal
Beamdog	2010			EN	Digital distribution portal
Common Sense Media	2003			EN	Nonprofit organization
Destructoid	2006		Yanier Gonzalez	EN	Blog	6,488 (April 2015)[4]
Desura	2010		Bad Juju Games	EN	Digital distribution portal
Direct2Drive	2004		AtGames	EN	Digital distribution portal	111,177 (October 2015)[5]
DotEmu	2007		DotEmu SAS	EN	Digital distribution portal
Escapist, The	2005		Defy Media	EN	Magazine
Eurogamer	1999		Gamer Network	EN	Magazine	3,897 (July 2015)[6]
Free Games Utopia	2016			EN	Database
G2A			G2A	EN	Digital storefront
Gamasutra			UBM TechWeb	EN	Magazine	10,435 (January 2015)[7]
Game & Graphics	2010		Daruma Studio	EN	Blog
Game Informer	1996		GameStop	EN	Magazine
Game Revolution	1996		CraveOnline Media, LLC	EN	Magazine	24,201 (April 2014)[8]
GameAgent	2008		Aspyr	EN	Digital distribution portal
GameFAQs	1995		CBS Interactive	EN	Database, user content	539 (May 2015)[9]
GameFly	2002		GameFly, Inc.	EN	Game rental & digital distribution portal
GameFront	1999		Break Media	EN	Mod & patch digital distribution portal	12,830 (February 2015)[10]
GameHouse	1991		GameHouse	EN	Casual game developer and distributor
Gameplanet	2000		Gameplanet Pty Ltd.	EN	Magazine
GameRankings	1999		CBS Interactive	EN	Aggregator	27,486 (April 2015)[11]
GamerRich	2016			EN	Digital distribution portal
GamersGate	2006		Gamersgate AB	EN	Digital distribution portal
Games Domain	1994	2005	Yahoo!	EN	Magazine
Games2win	2005		Games2win India Pvt. Ltd.	EN	Online game portal
GameSpew	2015		GameSpew.com	EN	Magazine
GameSpot	1996		CBS Interactive	EN	Magazine	838 (February 2015)[12]
GameSpy	1996	2013	Ziff Davis	EN	Magazine
GamesRadar	2005		Future plc	EN	Magazine	4,486 (April 2015)[13]
GameTrailers	2002	2016	Defy Media	EN	Video magazine	8,181 (April 2015)[14]
GameTop	2003		Gametop Pte Ltd	EN	Games portal and developer	5071 (April 2016)
Gamezebo	2006		Gamezebo, Inc.	EN	Magazine	42,082 (October 2014)[15]
GameZnFlix	2004	2008		EN	Game rental
GameZombie	2007			EN	Video magazine
GameZone	1994		GameZone Next	EN	Magazine	11,711 (April 2015)[16]
Giant Bomb	2008		CBS Interactive	EN	Magazine, wiki	3,203 (February 2015)[17]
GOG.com	2008		CD Projekt	EN	Digital distribution portal	2,728 (December 2015)[18]
GotFrag	2002		ESEA League	EN	eSports news	786,898 (April 2014)[19]
Green Man Gaming	2010		Green Man Gaming Limited.	EN	Online retailer & digital distribution portal
Humble Bundle	2010		Humble Bundle	EN	Online retailer & digital distribution portal
IGN	1996		Ziff Davis	EN	Magazine	334 (December 2015)[20]
IMDb	1990		Amazon.com	EN	Database	50 (December 2015)[21]
itch.io	2013		Leaf Corcoran	EN	Digital distribution portal	12,564 (August 2015)[9]
Jay Is Games	2003		Jay Bibby	EN	Magazine (casual games)	25,608 (August 2015)[22]
Joystiq	2004	2015	AOL, Inc.	EN	Magazine
Jumboplay	2006	2009	Dragonback Media		Digital distribution portal
Kongregate	2006		GameStop	EN	Online game portal	1,414 (May 2015)[23]
Kotaku	2004		Gawker Media	EN	Blog	923 (November 2015)[24]
Lik Sang	1998	2006		EN	Online games & merchandise store
Metacritic	1999		CBS Interactive	EN	Aggregator	1,505 (May 2015)[25]
Miniclip	2001		Miniclip SA	EN	Online game portal	1,199 (February 2015)[26]
MMOGames.com	2012		iQU	EN	Online gaming news
MobyGames	1999		Blue Flame Labs	EN	Database, user content	35,681 (December 2015)[27]
Mud Connector, The	1995		Andrew Cowan	EN	Magazine (MUDs)
New Game Network	2009		New Game Network	EN	Magazine	81,067 (April 2014)[28]
Newgrounds	1995		Tom Fulp	EN	Online games & multimedia host	3,403 (February 2015)[29]
NextGen Player	2008		Paul Hunter, Andrew Shin	EN	Blog
NG-Gamer	2005		Daan de Jong	NL	Magazine
Ninja Kiwi	2006		Ninja Kiwi	EN	Online game portal & developer	9,261 (August 2015)[30]
NoFrag	2001		NoCorp	FR	Magazine (FPSs)
Old Man Murray			UGO Networks	EN	Blog
Origin	2011		Electronic Arts	EN	Digital distribution portal
PALGN	2003	2014	James Peter	EN	Magazine
Planet Half-Life	1999	2012	IGN	EN	Half-Life news
Polygon	2012		Vox Media	EN	Magazine	1,859 (December 2014)[31]
PSU.com	2006		Seb Hayes, Kieran O'Neill	EN	Magazine (PlayStation)
Renchi	2005	c.2011			Online retailer
RF Generation	2004			EN	Database	677,561 (April 2014)[32]
Rock Paper Shotgun	2007		Rock Paper Shotgun Ltd.	EN	Blog	5,260 (August 2015)[33]
RPGamer	1995		Chris Privitere	EN	Magazine (RPGs)	106,189 (April 2014)[34]
Sarcastic Gamer	2007	2015		EN
ScrewAttack	2006		Fullscreen	EN	Video magazine
Shacknews	1996		Gamerhub	EN	Magazine	24,355 (April 2014)[35]
Steam	2003		Valve Corporation	28 languages[36]	Digital distribution portal	233 (August 2015) (Store)[37]
Thunderbolt	2000		Philip Morton	EN	Magazine
ToTheGame	2001			EN	Database
UK Resistance	1996	2011	Gary Cutlack	EN	Magazine (Sega)
VideoGamer.com	2004		Candy Banana	EN	Magazine	18,503 (December 2015)[38]
XBOX365	2000	???	Penton Media	EN	Magazine (Xbox)
Yahoo! Games	???	2014	Yahoo!	EN	Online game portal
Zapak	2006		Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group	EN	Online game portal	36,664[39]

See also

• List of video game webcomics
• Lists of video games
• Category:Video game websites

References

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2. "Adventuregamers.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
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17. "Giantbomb.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
18. "GOG.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
19. "Gotfrag.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
20. "Ign.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
21. "Imdb.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
22. "Jayisgames.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
23. "Kongregate.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
24. "Alexa Ranking". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
25. "Metacritic.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
26. "Miniclip.com - Site Information from Alexa". Retrieved 2011-02-08.
27. "Mobygames.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
28. "Newgamenetwork.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
29. "newgrounds.com traffic ranking". Alexa Internet. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
30. "Ninjakiwi.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved August 2015.
31. "Polygon.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
32. "Rfgeneration.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
33. "Rockpapershotgun.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
34. "Rpgamer.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
35. "Shacknews.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
36. "Steam Translation Server". Steam. Valve Corporation. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
37. "steampowered.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
38. "Videogamer.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
39. Zapak's Alexa Rank. Alexa.

Further reading

• Playing to Learn: Video Games in the Classroom. pp. 229–230.
• From Gamer to Game Designer. pp. 278–279.
• "Development and validation of an instrument to evaluate the content effectiveness of video games: a pilot study". "Most video game websites and magazines offer their own classifications (eg www.gamespot.com, www.gamespy.com and www.gamasutra.com). ..." (subscription required)
• "Introduction to video games, their publishers, and social responsibility concerning video game addiction". p. 6.