GameFAQs

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GameFAQs is a website that provides complete solutions and tricks for computer games , with most of the entries coming from the users themselves. Users can also publish their own reviews of the games. According to CBS Interactive , the page contains information for 60,000 games, including 44,000 FAQs / solutions , 220,000 cheats and 418 million forum posts. It is therefore the largest database created by the users themselves.

The site is one of the most visited sites. Alexa lists the page at position 503 (as of June 2015). GameFAQs is one of the best computer game websites according to the website of the British newspaper The Guardian and was named one of the “100 most useful websites” in 2004. GameFaqs.com was named one of the "50 Most Useful Websites in the World" by German magazine Neon .

history

GameFAQs was founded in 1995 by Jeff "CJayC" Veasey as a Video Game FAQ Archive. A year later, the site was renamed GameFAQ. At the time, the page contained fewer than 1000 FAQs.

In 1997 GameFAQs became an independent partner of Imagine Games Network (IGN) . During this time the user competitions were introduced. The first tests with discussion forums followed towards the end of 1999. In August 2000, 1 million views were measured for the first time in one day. In 2001 the collaboration with IGN was finally ended.

In 2003, the website was sold to CNET for $ 2.2 million. This was followed by a merger with the discussion forums at GameSpot , another website that also belongs to CNET. CNET was again taken over in 2008 by CBS Corporation .

Technical details

The walkthroughs, cheats and reviews are mainly recorded in text format . It is also possible to use graphics, e.g. B. for maps or screenshots . The discussion forums also essentially only support the text format.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CBS Interactive via GameFAQs
  2. ↑ netzeitung.de: Schummler's hard-working online helpers ( Memento from December 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Traffic information via GameFAQs
  4. ↑ guardian.co.uk : Entry from February 6, 2003 (English, accessed May 27, 2009)
  5. ↑ guardian.co.uk : Entry from December 16, 2004, section "Gaming" (accessed May 27, 2009)
  6. ↑ neon.de : Magazine text from April 30, 2009 (accessed May 27, 2009)
  7. ↑ CBS CORPORATION TO ACQUIRE CNET NETWORKS, INC. CBS Corporation, archived from the original on January 5, 2010 ; accessed on June 13, 2009 .