This article is about the principal website. For the parent company, formerly called EuroGamer Network, seeGamer Network. For the board game class, seeEurogame.
In 2008, it started in the formerly eponymous trade fairEGX (Eurogamer Expo until 2013) organised by its parent company.[1][2] From 2013 to 2020, sister siteUSGamer ran independently under its parent company.[3]
Eurogamer (initially stylised asEuroGamer) was launched on 4 September 1999 under companyEurogamer Network. The founding team included John Bye, the webmaster for thePlanetQuake website and a writer for British magazinePC Gaming World; Patrick Stokes, a contributor for the website Warzone; and Rupert Loman, who had organised the EuroQuakeesports event for the gameQuake.[4][non-primary source needed] It became the official online media partner of the 2002European Computer Trade Show.[5] By the end of 2012, visits to theEurogamer website and its ten European foreign-language versions had increased by over ten percent compared to the previous year.[6][7][8][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".[9][10] The change was driven by doubt about the score system's usefulness and its desire to be delisted from review aggregatorMetacritic because of its "unhealthy influence" on the games industry.[11] 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."[12][non-primary source needed]
In February 2018,Eurogamer's parent company,Gamer Network, was acquired by Reed Exhibitions,[13] a division ofRELX. In September 2021, the community forum forEurogamer closed, with the site recommending other platforms such asDiscord instead.[14]
Kristan Reed(left) and Tom Bramwell(right) were former editors ofEurogamer.
In January 2008, Tom Bramwell succeeded Kristan Reed as editor-in-chief,[16] a position he held until November 2014, marking the end of his 15-year tenure withEurogamer.[17][18] Afterwards Oli Welsh served as editor forEurogamer,[19][20] followed by Martin Robinson[21] and Tom Phillips,[22] with Tom Orry as the current editor.[23]
Digital Foundry, a video game technology blog founded in 2004 by Richard Leadbetter and Gary Harrod, analyses games and hardware based on performance. Since 2007, Eurogamer hosts Digital Foundry content due to a deal arranged by Leadbetter, who later sold parent Eurogamer Network half of it to support his video content.The Ringer recognized Digital Foundry for establishing the approach game technology videos employ and the outlet was used by Microsoft to unveil theXbox One X hardware.[33]
When Eurogamer's ownership first shifted in 2018, Leadbetter began seeking full control of Digital Foundry again. In August 2025, owner IGN agreed to sell Digital Foundry back to Leadbetter, with both Leadbetter and Eurogamer founder Rupert Loman paying equally for the cost of completing the sale. Leadbetter said that the outlet was profitable due to itsPatreon funding of about $200,000 a year.[34]
^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. Retrieved4 April 2022.
