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TheGamer
Who runs TheGamer, 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
- GameRant
Measured from TheGamer’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit TheGamer01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs TheGamer
TheGamer thegamer.com
TheGamer delivers the biggest video game news, in-depth interviews, honest reviews, timely previews, and surprising stories.
Wikidata: video game news website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What TheGamer 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.
tracker that follows visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 13 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 TheGamer
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to TheGamer, thumbs down if it isn’t.
6 of the 60 sites closest to TheGamer match.
- 01
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Very close - 02
Templated | Independent Gambling & iGaming Industry News
Independent news on the online casino, sports betting, and iGaming industries. Daily coverage of regulation, operators, and business.
Very close - 03
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 04
Soccer News, Live Scores, Results & Transfers | Goal.com US
The latest soccer news, live scores, results, rumors, transfers, fixtures, tables and player profiles from around the world, including Premier League.
Very close - 05
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 06
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles TheGamer’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones TheGamer 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 TheGamer 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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to TheGamer’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
- 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 ~all
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FfaizUmzEFvl6mKgMz1_k6GUc8pOuDeIsjcrke4I1KE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ler59grepwoxguktsl3wztkerkj1p5
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Google Analytics 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on thegamer.com 9/20
- PHP 8/20
- WordPress 8/20
- Amazon SES 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on thegamer.com 7/20
- nginx 6/20
- Comscore · not on thegamer.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thegamer.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on thegamer.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on thegamer.com 5/20
- jsDelivr 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thegamer.com 4/20