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Kotaku
Who runs Kotaku, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video game news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- gamespot.com
Measured from Kotaku’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Kotaku01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Kotaku
Kotaku kotaku.com
Wikidata: video game website and blog
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Kotaku 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
13 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Kotaku
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Kotaku, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Kotaku match.
- 01
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 - 02
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 - 03
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 - 04
GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love.
Very close - 05
PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
Very close - 06
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 - 07
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 08
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close - 09
ScreenRant: Movie News, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, TV News
ScreenRant debuted in 2003 and has grown into the largest source of breaking entertainment news & original features for movies, TV, comics, + more!
Very close - 10
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 11
GameWith
Welcome to GameWith; Your daily source of the latest and hottest Game Guides and News.
Very close - 12
Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast
Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..
Very close - 13
Checking your browser
Very close - 14
CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news
Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!
Very close - 15
FanSided Sports News & Updates: NFL, NBA, MLB, College & More
FanSided - Your go-to source for sports, entertainment, and lifestyle. Stay updated on news, analysis, and fandom across a range of topics.
Very close - 16
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close - 17
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 18
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED
We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered.
Very close - 19
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close - 20
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Kotaku’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Kotaku 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 Kotaku 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 · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Kotaku’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-includes/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://kotaku.com/wp/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.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/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.…
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56320bff8c61f5f-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS monika.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=edEr5zkx-X34KOkkm07wjtUpb7_7RTTEt8kopM0AuNA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Google Analytics · not on kotaku.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on kotaku.com 9/20
- Google Ad Manager 9/20
- PHP 7/20
- WordPress 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on kotaku.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on kotaku.com 6/20
- nginx · not on kotaku.com 6/20
- Comscore 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Atlassian · not on kotaku.com 4/20
- Fastly · not on kotaku.com 4/20