Curated category
Video game news websites
- EurogamerThe 4th of September 1999 marked the launch of Eurogamer under company Eurogamer Network. John Bye served as webmaster for PlanetQuake while writing for PC…
- GameSpotOn the 1st of May 1996, three former IDG employees launched a new website called GameSpot. Pete Deemer, Vince Broady, and Jon Epstein formed SpotMedia…
- GamesRadar+In November 2014, the website known as GamesRadar officially became GamesRadar+. This change marked the end of separate identities for Total Film, SFX, Edge…
- ShacknewsSteve Gibson launched a website in 1996 called Quakeholio. This digital space focused entirely on the upcoming game Quake from ID Software.
- GameTrailersGeoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones launched GameTrailers in 2002 as a small startup focused on video game trailers and gameplay footage.
- KotakuKotaku launched in October 2004 as a video game website within the Gawker Media network. Matthew Gallant served as its lead writer during those early days.
- Polygon (website)On the 24th of October 2012, Polygon opened its digital doors as Vox Media's third property. The site emerged from a ten-month development period involving…
- IGNOn the 29th of September 1996, a new website called IGN launched under the name Imagine Games Network. Media entrepreneur Chris Anderson created this…
- JoystiqJoystiq first appeared in April 2004 as a soft launch from Weblogs Inc. Peter Rojas, the founder of Engadget, recognized that video games were too broad for…
- GameSpyMark Surfas founded GameSpy in 1995 to solve a specific problem facing players of id Software's Quake. The game released in 1996 and allowed users to play…
- GameFAQsOn the 5th of November 1995, a programmer named Jeff Veasey launched a small website called the Video Game FAQ Archive. The site originally hosted just ten…
- Media CreateMedia Create operates as a Japanese company gathering data from the digital entertainment industry. Its focus remains strictly on the Japanese console gaming…