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GameStar
Who runs GameStar, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video game journalism alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ign.com
Measured from GameStar’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit GameStar01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs GameStar
GameStar gamestar.de
GameStar.de versorgt euch mit Tests, Previews, Videos, Reportagen und News zu PC-Spielen und Hardware. Wir liefern Spielejournalismus, dem ihr vertrauen könnt.
Wikidata: German PC gaming magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In German
02 · Privacy
What GameStar tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
10 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Didomi
- US company
- 4 tools
- EU company
- 1 tool
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to GameStar
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GameStar, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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IGN Deutschland
IGN Deutschland: Eure Anlaufstelle für aktuelle Tests, Reviews und Specials zu Videospielen, Games, Kino und Serien. Von Playstation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch und PC bis zu Marvel und Co.
Very close - 02
ComputerBase
Unabhängiges Tech-Magazin. News und Tests zu Smartphones, Tablets, PC-Hardware, Software und IT. Große technikaffine Community hilft im Forum.
Very close - 03
Golem.de - IT News für Profis
Golem.de - Ständig aktuelle IT-News für Profis und Videos aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft über Hardware, Software, Telekommunikation, Games
Very close - 04
PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
Very close - 05
Rock Paper Shotgun
PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.
Very close - 06
GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love.
Very close - 07
PCGamesN | PC games news, reviews, guides, and hardware
The latest PC games news, guides, and reviews. Expert opinions on the PC gaming gear you need and the games you play.
Very close - 08
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
video game website and blog
Very close - 09
4Gamer.net ― 日本最大級の総合ゲーム情報サイト。最新ゲームのニュース，レビューはここで！
ゲームの最新ニュースをお届けします。また，ゲームのタイトルのユーザーレビューの募集/掲載や，発売スケジュールなども用意。遊びたいゲームを探す時にご活用ください！
Very close - 10
PC-WELT: Technik Tests, News, Deals, Ratgeber und Kaufberatungen
Die wichtigsten IT-Themen, präsentiert von den Experten von PC-WELT, der zuverlässigen Quelle für technische Informationen, Tests, Ratgeber und Kaufberatungen für Verbraucher.
Very close - 11
GameRant - Breaking News, Reviews & Everything Else in the World of Video Games
GameRant delivers content written by gamers for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews.
Very close - 12
GIGA | News und Tipps zu Android, Apple, Games, Entertainment, Tech und Haushalt
Bei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund um Technik, Games und Entertainment.
Very close - 13
video game website
Very close - 14
ファミ通.com / ゲーム・エンタメの速報・最新情報
ゲーム・エンタメ総合情報サイト。Switch・PS5・PS4・Xbox Series X・アプリ等の最新ニュース、ゲーム発売日情報、レビュー、ゲーム販売本数ランキングから、クリエイターのインタビュー記事、他アニメ・声優コンテンツなども充実しています！
Very close - 15
heise online – IT news, guides and background information | heise online
News and forums on computers, IT, science, media and politics. Price comparison of hardware and software as well as downloads at Heise Medien.
Very close - 16
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
Very close - 17
TheGamer - The Leading Source for Gaming News, Reviews, and Interviews
TheGamer delivers the biggest video game news, in-depth interviews, honest reviews, timely previews, and surprising stories.
Very close - 18
Nachrichten, Hintergründe & Reportagen | STERN.de
Auf STERN.DE finden Sie News, spannende Hintergründe sowie bildstarke Reportagen aus allen Bereichen: Von Politik und Wirtschaft bis Kultur und Wissenschaft.
Very close - 19
DER SPIEGEL | Online-Nachrichten
Deutschlands führende Nachrichtenseite. Alles Wichtige aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport, Kultur, Wissenschaft, Technik und mehr.
Very close - 20
German computer and communications magazine
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles GameStar’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones GameStar uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what GameStar adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 17 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to GameStar’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://static.cgames.de/gs_cb/assets/core/js/libs/jquery/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://static.cgames.de/gs_cb/assets/core/js/libs/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.js?cc=2026-11-…
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/kan2vcq.css
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Criteo page source: static.criteo.net
- Cookie consent
- Didomi page source: sdk.privacy-center.org
- Security
- Cloudflare Turnstile page source: challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577c42ae8505c73-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms62649387
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.dsb.net include:sendgrid.n…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS hunts.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=WbP0mLx7UONG1P6L8g1awfMpA9mGsmQHQJlnTR1bMEc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on gamestar.de 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on gamestar.de 9/20
- Google Analytics · not on gamestar.de 8/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- PHP 8/20
- WordPress 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on gamestar.de 7/20
- Atlassian · not on gamestar.de 7/20
- nginx · not on gamestar.de 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Comscore 5/20
- OpenAI · not on gamestar.de 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on gamestar.de 5/20
- Adobe · not on gamestar.de 4/20