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  • GameSpotGameSpot launched on the 1st of May, 1996, born out of a bet that the internet would change how people talked about video games forever.
  • GameTrailersGameTrailers launched in 2002, founded by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones, and quickly became one of the internet's primary destinations for video game…
  • KotakuKotaku launched in October 2004 as a small corner of the Gawker Media network, aimed at young men and named after a Japanese portmanteau of the word otaku…
  • IGNIGN launched on the 29th of September 1996, born as a network of five separate websites covering gaming platforms that barely existed yet.
  • Rooster TeethRooster Teeth Productions launched in April 2003 with a web series set in a box canyon, two squads of soldiers arguing about almost nothing.
  • CNETCNET launched as a cable channel in 1992, founded by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie after Minor left PepsiCo. The idea was simple and ambitious: a 24-hour…
  • GameFAQsGameFAQs launched on the 5th of November 1995 as the Video Game FAQ Archive, a site with roughly 10 pages and 100 guides.
  • DiscordDiscord was built to solve a problem its founder could not stop running into. Jason Citron, while running a game development studio, kept watching his team…
  • Twitch (service)Twitch is an American live-streaming platform that began its life in June 2011 not as a standalone product, but as a calculated spin-off carved out of a…
  • GameStopGameStop was founded in Dallas in 1984 as Babbage's, a software retailer named after the 19th-century computing pioneer Charles Babbage.
  • The Game AwardsThe Game Awards began, in a sense, with a flop. In 1994, a teenage Geoff Keighley was brought in to help write material for Cybermania '94, the first…
  • Pokémon CenterThe first Pokémon Center opened its doors in Tokyo during April 1998. This original location eventually closed and reopened at a different address within the…
  • CosplayCosplay is the activity of wearing costumes and accessories to embody a specific character, and in 1939, two science fiction fans in New York City started…