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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
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- 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.
- 01
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 - 02
Rock Paper Shotgun
PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.
Very close - 03
video game website
Very close - 04
Eurogamer.net
Your trusted source for video game news, reviews and guides, since 1999.
Very close - 05
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
video game website and blog
Very close - 06
GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love.
Very close - 07
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 - 08
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 - 09
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.
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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.
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PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
Very close - 12
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 13
Checking your browser
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Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
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GameWith
Welcome to GameWith; Your daily source of the latest and hottest Game Guides and News.
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News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
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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.
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close - 19
Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Very close - 20
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
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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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 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