polygon.com
Polygon
Who runs Polygon, 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
- gamespot.com
Measured from Polygon’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Polygon01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Polygon
Polygon polygon.com
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
Wikidata: video game website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Polygon 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
5 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Polygon
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Polygon, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
video game website
Very close - 02
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
video game website and blog
Very close - 03
Eurogamer.net
Your trusted source for video game news, reviews and guides, since 1999.
Very close - 04
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 - 05
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 - 06
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 - 07
GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love.
Very close - 08
Rock Paper Shotgun
PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.
Very close - 09
PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
Very close - 10
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 - 11
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 - 12
4Gamers
電玩 x 科技 x 動漫 x 影劇 x 紳士 最棒的 Gaming 生活充電站,For Gamers.
Very close - 13
게임메카, 대한민국 1등 인터넷 게임신문
게임메카는 온라인게임 뉴스, 인기게임 순위, 신작과 업데이트 정보, 게임 공략, 모바일게임 순위, 웹게임 순위를 제공합니다.
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
Comicbook.com: Comics, Movies, TV, Gaming and Anime
Comicbook.com is the #1 site for everything geek. Get news, opinion and exclusives on movies, TV shows, video games, comics, anime and more.
Very close - 16
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 - 17
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 - 18 Very close
- 19
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
Very close - 20
NME | Music, Film, TV, Gaming & Pop Culture News
NME brings you the latest music and pop culture news and reviews, along with videos and galleries, band features, concert tickets, magazine, radio and more.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Polygon’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Polygon 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 Polygon 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 · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 45 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Polygon’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/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- CDN
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hls.js@latest
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:one.zoho…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=KsTA4XhdNJhrbwYAQVG8kPITfKHVaTwh_yykIRukvVc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Google Analytics 13/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on polygon.com 12/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on polygon.com 10/20
- PHP 10/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Comscore · not on polygon.com 8/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on polygon.com 7/20
- Amazon SES 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on polygon.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on polygon.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on polygon.com 5/20
- nginx 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on polygon.com 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on polygon.com 4/20