This article is about the principal website. For the parent company, formerly called EuroGamer Network, see Gamer Network. For the board game class, see Eurogame.
Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.
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]
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]
^Loureiro, Jorge (1 March 2013). "Eurogamer Network é agora Gamer Network" [Eurogamer Network is now Gamer Network]. Eurogamer.pt (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 26 January 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
