Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Polygon
The 20 closest video game journalism alternatives to Polygon, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Polygon? The closest matches are GameRant, gamespot.com and CBR. 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 Polygon
Polygon polygon.com
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.
Wikidata: video game website
Summary by Claude
Online publication covering video games and entertainment, with news, reviews, features, game guides and walkthroughs, plus coverage of movies, TV, anime, comics and tabletop games.
- Who it’s for
- Video game players and pop culture fans
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
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). 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 Polygon
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Polygon, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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 0.971 - 02
video game website
Very close cos 0.962 - 03
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 0.956 - 04
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 cos 0.945 - 05
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 0.943 - 06
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 0.939 - 07
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close cos 0.934 - 08
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 0.934 - 09
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 0.930 - 10
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 0.931 - 11
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Very close cos 0.931 - 12
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 0.928 - 13
MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.
The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.
Very close cos 0.928 - 14
New Movie News, Movie Trailers & Upcoming Movie Reviews | Collider
Stay up to date with new movie news, watch the latest movie trailers & get trusted reviews of upcoming movies & more from the team at Collider.
Very close cos 0.928 - 15
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 0.927 - 16
International Business Times - Business News, Financial news
International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.
Very close cos 0.925 - 17
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
video game website and blog
Very close cos 0.922 - 18
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Very close cos 0.924 - 19
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 0.926 - 20
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Very close cos 0.925
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to polygon.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Polygon uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Polygon is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Polygon adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 18/20
- Amazon SES 13/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on polygon.com 12/20
- PHP 12/20
- WordPress 12/20
- nginx 9/20
- Google Analytics 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on polygon.com 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on polygon.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on polygon.com 7/20
- jsDelivr 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on polygon.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on polygon.com 4/20
- Apple Business · not on polygon.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on polygon.com 4/20