Top 25 Video Game Blogs (By the Numbers)
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 9:39am by The Free Geek
We all enjoy keeping up with the latest in video game news. And there’s no better way to do just that by reading up on all of the best video game blogs. Recently, this begged the question: which video game blogs have the biggest reach? With nowhere to turn to answer this question definitively, we thought it would be an interesting exercise to rank all of the blogs in the video game niche.
In ranking the top video game blogs, our goal was to show — using objective data from reliable sources — which blogs about console gaming are the most popular. To this end, we used data for these four metrics to calculate the rankings:
Top 25 (see complete methodology below)
| Rank | Site |  |
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Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joystiq | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 37 |
| 2 | Kotaku | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| 3 | Xbox 360 Fanboy | 6 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 35 |
| 4 | Destructoid | 6 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 34 |
| 5 | Jay is Games | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 33 |
| 6 | PSP Fanboy | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 33 |
| 7 | DS Fanboy | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 33 |
| 8 | Game Politics | 6 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 31 |
| 9 | Cheap Ass Gamer | 5 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 30 |
| 10 | Nintendo Wii Fanboy | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 29 |
| 11 | GameSetWatch | 6 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 29 |
| 12 | game girl advance | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 28 |
| 13 | Video Games | 5 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 26 |
| 14 | WOW Insider | 6 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 26 |
| 15 | 4 Color Rebellion | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 26 |
| 16 | Water Cooler Games | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 26 |
| 17 | Video Games Blogger | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 25 |
| 18 | dubious quality | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 25 |
| 19 | PS3 Fanboy | 6 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 24 |
| 20 | Old Grandma Hardcore | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 22 |
| 21 | Gamers Game | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 22 |
| 22 | Video Game Media Watch | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 21 |
| 23 | Casual Game Blogs | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| 24 | Electric Sistahood | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 18 |
| 25 | wiispin | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 18 |
Methodology
To begin, we found a set of Web sites that met a certain criteria. To become a member of the set of Web sites to be ranked, a Web site must, as of August 13, 2007:
- be listed on Game-Blogs; or
- be ranked in the top 200 for the phrase video game blog on Google; or
- be listed on the Games > Blogs page in the Yahoo! Directory; and
- be primarily a blog about console gaming.
For each metric, a score was assigned on a 0–10 scale. For Google PageRank, raw PageRank data was scored. For Alexa Rank, Technorati Authority, and Bloglines Subscribers, the Web sites were broken up into deciles. If a Web site was in the 0>10% decile, a 1 was scored; for the 10>20% decile, a 2 was scored; and so on, up to a 10 being scored for the 90–100% decile. If no data was available, a 0 was scored.
The overall score for each Web site is the sum of the scores of the four metrics. In the event of a tie in overall score, the tie is broken according to the Alexa Rank raw data.
Raw Data for Entire Set
| Rank | Site | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joystiq | 7 | 3,863 | 6,350 | 2,749 |
| 2 | Kotaku | 6 | 2,226 | 8,967 | 1,862 |
| 3 | Xbox 360 Fanboy | 6 | 21,858 | 1,279 | 926 |
| 4 | Destructoid | 6 | 6,427 | 2,528 | 272 |
| 5 | Jay is Games | 6 | 16,657 | 790 | 401 |
| 6 | PSP Fanboy | 6 | 24,877 | 793 | 625 |
| 7 | DS Fanboy | 6 | 43,022 | 692 | 779 |
| 8 | Game Politics | 6 | 74,538 | 1,280 | 209 |
| 9 | Cheap Ass Gamer | 5 | 20,719 | 234 | 251 |
| 10 | Nintendo Wii Fanboy | 6 | 30,600 | 27 | 592 |
| 11 | GameSetWatch | 6 | 86,685 | 542 | 144 |
| 12 | game girl advance | 6 | 151,751 | 211 | 421 |
| 13 | Video Games | 5 | 15,286 | 27 | 11 |
| 14 | WOW Insider | 6 | 18,403 | 0 | 599 |
| 15 | 4 Color Rebellion | 5 | 118,788 | 436 | 143 |
| 16 | Water Cooler Games | 5 | 248,153 | 238 | 175 |
| 17 | Video Games Blogger | 5 | 43,157 | 328 | 10 |
| 18 | dubious quality | 5 | 243,647 | 116 | 121 |
| 19 | PS3 Fanboy | 6 | 37,574 | 0 | 353 |
| 20 | Old Grandma Hardcore | 5 | 433,158 | 226 | 70 |
| 21 | Gamers Game | 5 | 583,906 | 60 | 41 |
| 22 | Video Game Media Watch | 5 | 541,800 | 30 | 101 |
| 23 | Casual Game Blogs | 5 | 1,534,946 | 18 | 44 |
| 24 | Electric Sistahood | 5 | 370,570 | 13 | 2 |
| 25 | wiispin | 5 | 948,888 | 19 | 10 |
| 26 | Frag Dolls | 6 | 283,811 | 0 | 6 |
| 27 | Techfresh | 4 | 59,872 | 25 | 0 |
| 28 | The Gamer Collective | 0 | 540,122 | 27 | 2 |
| 29 | BlogNomic | 5 | 1,646,069 | 4 | 2 |
| 30 | Gnade Games | 4 | 1,738,572 | 13 | 3 |
| 31 | Video Game Programming | 4 | N/A | 4 | 9 |
| 32 | FlyingOmelette.com | 4 | 304,737 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Tom Buscaglia: The Game Attorney | 4 | 3,478,726 | 1 | 7 |
| 34 | Used Video Game Pricing | 0 | 1,900,434 | 10 | 2 |
| 35 | The Game Musketeers | 4 | 7,340,559 | 16 | 0 |
| 36 | Video Game Cheats | 2 | 1,080,900 | 3 | 0 |
| 37 | Retarded Games | 3 | N/A | 0 | 1 |
| 38 | Video Game Hoopla | 2 | 4,803,212 | 3 | 0 |
| 40 | My Madden 2008 | 0 | 1,874,741 | 3 | 0 |
| 41 | The Gamer Gene | 0 | 2,719,327 | 9 | 0 |
| 42 | Make This Game | 2 | N/A | 0 | 0 |
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