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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.
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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
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 - 06
GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love.
Very close - 07
Rock Paper Shotgun
PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.
Very close - 08
PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
Very close - 09
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 - 10
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 - 11
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 - 12
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 - 13
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 - 14
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 - 15
Anime News Network
English/French website about anime, manga, and Japanese culture
Very close - 16
Consequence | Music, Movie, TV and Pop Culture News for the Mainstream and Underground
Consequence is your source for breaking news about music, film, and TV, plus daily reviews, exclusive interviews, original videos, and more.
Very close - 17
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 - 18
MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.
The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.
Very close - 19
Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Very close - 20
GameWith
Welcome to GameWith; Your daily source of the latest and hottest Game Guides and News.
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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
- 32 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