Alternatives and competitors
Sites like gamespot.com
The 20 closest video game journalism alternatives to gamespot.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to gamespot.com? The closest matches are Polygon, GameRant and gamewith.jp. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About gamespot.com
gamespot.com
Wikidata: video game website
Summary by Claude
Video game news and entertainment website publishing news, reviews, previews, trailers, walkthroughs, guides and community forums covering PC and console games.
- Who it’s for
- Video game players and enthusiasts
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to gamespot.com’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to gamespot.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to gamespot.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read gamespot.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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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 cos 0.962 - 02
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 cos 0.959 - 03
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 cos 0.945 - 04
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 cos 0.931 - 05
Game8｜The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan!
The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan! Game8 delivers the latest in gaming news, walkthrough information, and other useful tools so that you can get the most out of your gaming experience! Our pages for popular apps and new games are being updated every minute!
Very close cos 0.928 - 06
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close cos 0.925 - 07
software for the broadcasting of gaming matches on the Half-Life engine
Very close cos 0.923 - 08
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 cos 0.926 - 09
PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
Very close cos 0.922 - 10
Bleacher Report | Sports. Highlights. News. Now.
Fan easier, fan faster and fan better with Bleacher Report. Keep up with the latest storylines, expert analysis, highlights and scores for all your favorite sports.
Very close cos 0.925 - 11
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
video game website and blog
Very close cos 0.921 - 12
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close cos 0.922 - 13
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close cos 0.921 - 14
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close cos 0.919 - 15
CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Very close cos 0.919 - 16
Electronic Arts Home Page - Official EA Site
We exist to inspire the world through Play. Electronic Arts is a leading publisher of games on Console, PC and Mobile.
Very close cos 0.911 - 17
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.915 - 18
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 cos 0.914 - 19
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 cos 0.915 - 20
Deadline – Hollywood Entertainment Breaking News
Deadline.com is always the first to break up-to-the-minute entertainment, Hollywood and media news, with an unfiltered, no-holds-barred analysis of events.
Very close cos 0.913
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to gamespot.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones gamespot.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What gamespot.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630d114a19131b-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:sendgrid.net -all
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:sendgrid.net -all
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-c4.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=0Ni8kZjRQQ7k7L1ka7GUuhIAW9wKiP0yuc0s6v8UVjE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=fbzdquphz9r1fkwjq7toys5kwtrh9e14d15e6ed4…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what gamespot.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- PHP · not on gamespot.com 9/20
- WordPress · not on gamespot.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on gamespot.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on gamespot.com 9/20
- Amazon SES · not on gamespot.com 8/20
- nginx · not on gamespot.com 8/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on gamespot.com 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on gamespot.com 7/20
- jQuery · not on gamespot.com 6/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on gamespot.com 5/20
- jsDelivr · not on gamespot.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on gamespot.com 4/20