GamesRadar+

GamesRadar+
Type of site
Video game website
Available inEnglish
Headquarters
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Canada
  • Australia
OwnerFuture plc
EditorSam Loveridge
URLgamesradar.com
RegistrationOptional
Launched1999; 27 years ago (1999)

GamesRadar+ (formerly GamesRadar) is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews. It is owned by Future plc. In late 2014, Future Publishing-owned sites Total Film, SFX, Edge and Computer and Video Games were merged into GamesRadar, with the resulting, expanded website being renamed GamesRadar+ in November that year.

GamesRadar+ publishes numerous articles each day, including official video game news, reviews, previews, and interviews with publishers and developers. One of the site's features was their "Top 7" lists, a weekly countdown detailing negative aspects of video games themselves, the industry and/or culture. Today, they also publish "best games" lists segmented by genre, platform, or theme. These are divided into living lists, for consoles and platforms that are still active, and legacy lists, for consoles and platforms that are no longer a target for commercial game development.

GamesRadar hosted numerous online message boards and forums from as early as 1998 in its original Future Gamer and then Daily Radar incarnation, including international versions such as GamesRadar.it. Future Publishing's enthusiast video and computer games magazines such as N64 Magazine often featured prevalent advertising for GamesRadar to encourage participation from readers. In 2008, the site moved towards a single login functionality for reader comments on articles and posting on forums, for which the newer US forums were chosen due to Future's strategic shift to garner US readership and compete with sites such as IGN. On 14 August 2008, it was announced that the UK forum would be closed down and merged with the US forums. Moderators of the original UK forums instead launched GRcade, occasionally noted for its own breaking news.

References

  1. ↑ Gibson, Ellie (19 July 2007). "GamesRadar and Cheat Planet readership tops 3.25 million". GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ↑ GamesRadar_ US (31 July 2007). "GamesRadar's Top 7 compendium". GamesRadar+. Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  3. ↑ GamesRadar Staff (1 January 2013). "GamesRadar's Best Lists". GamesRadar+. Archived from the original on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. ↑ Daily Radar Forums (2 June 2001) "Daily Radar Forums". Archived from the original on 2 June 2001. Retrieved 28 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ↑ GRcade Index Archived 17 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine. GRcade. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  6. ↑ Yin-Poole, Wesley (22 August 2012). "Sony closes WipEout developer Sony Liverpool" Archived 8 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 July 2018.

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