Eurogamer

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

This section relies excessively on references to primary sources. (January 2025)

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]

Eurogamer has won several trade awards, including:

• 2007–2011 Best Website at the Games Media Awards.^[33][34]
• 2018 Online Editorial Team and Best Streamer at the Games Media Brit List.^[35][36]
• 2022 and 2024 Media Brand of the Year at MCV/Develop.^[37][38]