Curated category
Video game news websites
- EurogamerEurogamer went live on the 4th of September 1999, a date that placed it at the very beginning of a decade-long transformation in how British audiences read…
- 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.
- GamesRadar+GamesRadar+ did not arrive as a single creation. It assembled itself over years from pieces of other things, absorbing rival sites, inheriting reader…
- ShacknewsShacknews began life not as a news site, but as a fan shrine. Steve Gibson founded it in 1996 under the name Quakeholio, built entirely around anticipation…
- 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…
- Polygon (website)Polygon launched on the 24th of October 2012, with a pitch that was unusual for the internet: slow down, go long, and tell the story behind the game.
- IGNIGN launched on the 29th of September 1996, born as a network of five separate websites covering gaming platforms that barely existed yet.
- JoystiqJoystiq launched with a soft debut in April 2004 and a formal unveiling on June 16 of that year, arriving at a moment when gaming websites were dominated by…
- GameSpyGameSpy began with a simple problem: in 1996, nobody could find a server to play Quake on. Mark Surfas had already spotted an opportunity in the Quake…
- GameFAQsGameFAQs launched on the 5th of November 1995 as the Video Game FAQ Archive, a site with roughly 10 pages and 100 guides.
- Media CreateMedia Create is a Japanese company that sits at the center of one of the most closely watched rituals in gaming: the Friday sales report.