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Rock Paper Shotgun
Who runs Rock Paper Shotgun, 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
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- Closest alternative
- eurogamer.net
Measured from Rock Paper Shotgun’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Rock Paper Shotgun01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Rock Paper Shotgun
Rock Paper Shotgun rockpapershotgun.com
PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.
Wikidata: British video game website and blog
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Rock Paper Shotgun 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
More than all 19 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 6 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Rock Paper Shotgun
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Rock Paper Shotgun, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Rock Paper Shotgun match.
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Eurogamer.net
Your trusted source for video game news, reviews and guides, since 1999.
Very close - 02
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 - 03
PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
Very close - 04
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
video game website and blog
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
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 - 07
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 - 08
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 - 09
GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love.
Very close - 10
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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 - 11
GameStar – Das Nr. 1 Magazin für PC-Spieler
GameStar.de versorgt euch mit Tests, Previews, Videos, Reportagen und News zu PC-Spielen und Hardware. Wir liefern Spielejournalismus, dem ihr vertrauen könnt.
Very close - 12
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Very close - 13
PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
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Very close - 14
ゲームウィズ - 日本最大級のゲームレビュー・攻略サイト
日本最大級のゲーム総合情報サイト。Switch2・Switch・PS5・PS4・PC・スマホアプリのおすすめゲームや新作ゲームのランキング、評価、レビュー、ゲーム攻略の最新情報を毎日お届け。ゲーム探しはゲームウィズ！
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StopGame — всё про видеоигры, сайт об играх, игровой портал
Всё про видеоигры на сайте StopGame. Максимально актуальная информация об играх и игровой индустрии онлайн. Press Start!
Very close - 17
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 - 18
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 - 19
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Very close - 20
Игромания — игровые новости, обзоры, релизы, киберспорт и косплей
Игромания — честное и непредвзятое медиа-издание про игры, кино и технологии. Регулярно публикуем новости, обзоры и превью на игры, кино, киберспорт, косплей и многое другое.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Rock Paper Shotgun’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Rock Paper Shotgun 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 Rock Paper Shotgun 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
- 78 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Rock Paper Shotgun’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
- Analytics
- Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag('config', 'AW-
- Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 a:mail.eurogamer.net include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.goo…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-dub4363-DUB, cache-ber1080024-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms35195705
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=QUsZX4LdPWTYZgx09JhShFot27EJnUl/5CyxXFs…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=QVxC_rJz72152U4M-j2ep1sZ5IbzibL7pZVYrShEQyE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=pykhp7trlzqvoadtyyj9l2r9np2fgy
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-vN8bZ58vSWZpA3CRUaUv80Xn
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- Google Analytics 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- PHP · not on rockpapershotgun.com 8/20
- WordPress · not on rockpapershotgun.com 8/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on rockpapershotgun.com 8/20
- Comscore 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on rockpapershotgun.com 7/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on rockpapershotgun.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on rockpapershotgun.com 5/20
- nginx · not on rockpapershotgun.com 5/20
- Fastly 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on rockpapershotgun.com 4/20