Eurogamer

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Eurogamer
Official Eurogamer logo.svg
Type of business Subsidiary
Type of site
 Video game journalism
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Founder(s)
  • John Bye
  • Patrick Stokes
  • Rupert Loman
EditorTom Phillips
Industry Video game industry
Parent Gamer Network
URL www.eurogamer.net OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched4 September 1999;25 years ago (1999-09-04)

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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In 2008, it started in the formerly eponymous trade fair EGX (Eurogamer Expo until 2013) organised by its parent company. [1] [2] From 2013 to 2020, sister site USGamer ran independently under its parent company. [3]

History

Eurogamer (initially stylised as EuroGamer) was launched on 4 September 1999 under company Eurogamer Network. The founding team included John Bye, the webmaster for the PlanetQuake website and a writer for British magazine PC Gaming World ; Patrick Stokes, a contributor for the website Warzone; and Rupert Loman, who had organised the EuroQuake esports event for the game Quake . [4] [ non-primary source needed ] It became the official online media partner of the 2002 European Computer Trade Show. [5] Eurogamer hosts content from media outlet Digital Foundry since 2007, which was founded in 2004. [6] [ non-primary source needed ] By the end of 2012, visits to the Eurogamer website and its ten European foreign-language versions had increased by over ten percent compared to the previous year. [7] [8] [9] [ non-primary source needed ]

In February 2015, Eurogamer abandoned its ten-point scale for review scores in favor of highlighting games the reviewer felt particularly strongly about with labels such as "Essential", "Recommended" or "Avoid". [10] [11] The change was driven by doubt about the score system's usefulness and its desire to be delisted from review aggregator Metacritic because of its "unhealthy influence" on the games industry. [12] In May 2023, Eurogamer returned to scoring reviews, opting for a five-point scale due to them being "universally understood, simple to take in at a glance, and easily shared." [13] [ non-primary source needed ]

In February 2018, Eurogamer's parent company, Gamer Network, was acquired by Reed Exhibitions, [14] a division of RELX. In September 2021, the community forum for Eurogamer closed, with the site recommending other platforms such as Discord instead. [15]

In May 2024, Gamer Network was sold to IGN Entertainment, a subsidiary of Ziff Davis. [16]

Editors

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Kristan Reed (left) and Tom Bramwell (right) were former editors of Eurogamer.

In January 2008, Tom Bramwell succeeded Kristan Reed as editor-in-chief, [17] a position he held until November 2014, marking the end of his 15-year tenure with Eurogamer. [18] [19] Afterwards Oli Welsh served as editor for Eurogamer, [20] [21] followed by Martin Robinson, [22] with Tom Phillips now being the current editor. [23]

Regional websites

Current

Eurogamer has several regional publications [24] :

Former

Reception

Eurogamer has won several trade awards, including:

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