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PC Gamer
Who runs PC Gamer, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video game media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- PCGamesN
Measured from PC Gamer’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PC Gamer01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs PC Gamer
PC Gamer pcgamer.com
Wikidata: British-American video game magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What PC Gamer 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 19 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Sourcepoint
- US company
- 4 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.
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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to PC Gamer
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PC Gamer, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to PC Gamer 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
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 - 03
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 - 04
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 05
Checking your browser
Very close - 06
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close - 07
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 - 08
IsThereAnyDeal
digital video game comparison shooping website
Very close - 09
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 - 10
Templated | Independent Gambling & iGaming Industry News
Independent news on the online casino, sports betting, and iGaming industries. Daily coverage of regulation, operators, and business.
Close - 11
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!
Close - 12
The Dice Tower
The Dice Tower is dedicated to getting folks to learn about the wide world of exciting new board games. We do video reviews, and an audio show, and more.
Close - 13
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.
Close - 14
Anime News Network
English/French website about anime, manga, and Japanese culture
Close - 15
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.
Close - 16
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Close - 17
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Close - 18
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Close - 19
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Close - 20
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PC Gamer’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PC Gamer 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 PC Gamer 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 51 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PC Gamer’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
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-border-spacing-x:
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- 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
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lon4229-LON, cache-ber1080045-BER
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-142.awsdns-17.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: CC462E6DF91492086145CA5EBDCB615E
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: nEMWGpFpnijlLQ_wncYhmsfYlcPGMIyI2uRKCDpKKIM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=b6qevwfig6gpzawfc76chgieq9ek2c
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- Google Analytics · not on pcgamer.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- PHP · not on pcgamer.com 8/20
- WordPress · not on pcgamer.com 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on pcgamer.com 8/20
- Comscore 7/20
- nginx · not on pcgamer.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on pcgamer.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on pcgamer.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pcgamer.com 4/20
- Fastly 4/20