Alternatives and competitors
Sites like PC Gamer
The 20 closest video game media alternatives to PC Gamer, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to PC Gamer? The closest matches are PCWorld, gamespot.com and Tom's Hardware. 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 PC Gamer
PC Gamer pcgamer.com
PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
Wikidata: British-American video game magazine
Summary by Claude
PC Gamer is a video game magazine and website covering PC gaming news, game reviews and previews, guides, hardware coverage and deals, published by Future plc.
- Who it’s for
- PC gamers and gaming hardware enthusiasts
- Business model
- Advertising, affiliate deals, magazine subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PC Gamer’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 PC Gamer
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PC Gamer, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Adobe Fonts
Very close cos 0.933 - 02
video game website
Very close cos 0.922 - 03
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 0.921 - 04
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 0.914 - 05
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 0.912 - 06
Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
Very close cos 0.911 - 07
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
video game website and blog
Very close cos 0.898 - 08
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close cos 0.899 - 09
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.896 - 10
Welcome to GOG.com | best PC games DRM-free
Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.
Close cos 0.890 - 11
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.
- Fastly
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Publisher Services
Very close cos 0.896 - 12
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
Very close cos 0.895 - 13
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Close cos 0.893 - 14
English-language computer magazine
Close cos 0.891 - 15
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.
Close cos 0.891 - 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.
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Meta Business Suite
- Adobe
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Akamai Edge DNS
Close cos 0.887 - 17
thestreet.com
US financial news and financial literacy website
Close cos 0.890 - 18
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Close cos 0.889 - 19
Wargaming.net games — the full list of games available for players on the official website
A catalogue of games produced by an award-winning online game developer and publisher. Legendary and new games from Wargaming for PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and Playstation.
Close cos 0.887 - 20
King.com - Play the Most Popular & Fun Games Online!
Join millions of other players and enjoy the most popular and fun games online at King.com. Enter the Kingdom and make new friends in our player community!
Close cos 0.885
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to pcgamer.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones PC Gamer uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What PC Gamer is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-border-spacing-x:
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lon4229-LON, cache-ber1080045-BER
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-142.awsdns-17.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: CC462E6DF91492086145CA5EBDCB615E
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: nEMWGpFpnijlLQ_wncYhmsfYlcPGMIyI2uRKCDpKKIM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=b6qevwfig6gpzawfc76chgieq9ek2c
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what PC Gamer adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Google Ad Manager 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on pcgamer.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on pcgamer.com 7/20
- PHP · not on pcgamer.com 7/20
- WordPress · not on pcgamer.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on pcgamer.com 7/20
- nginx · not on pcgamer.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on pcgamer.com 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on pcgamer.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pcgamer.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on pcgamer.com 5/20