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Founded in 2009 and acquired by Valnet in 2019, Game Rant is a Digital Publication run by gamers with articles published for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews. Their information aims to tap into the topics and subjects that they, as gamers, are most passionate about. Whether it’s theorizing about the future of fan-favorite franchises like Legend of Zelda or offering first looks at new games like Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown through our Game Rant Advance program.

At Game Rant, they believe that gaming deserves writing that matches its creativity and vitality. They don’t just share the same headlines that everyone else does. GameRant strives to provide in-depth publications you won’t find anywhere else. They don’t just tell you what they think: GameRant generates discussion with their in-depth, expert-driven content.

Founded in 2017 by Valnet Inc., TheGamer is a gaming site with a different spin on things. They wrote an extensive expose on workplace abuse at Techland, an oral history on Dragon Age: Origins, and they were the first to report that PlayStation was moving to shut the Vita store down. For all your news, views, and reviews, (and guides, but that doesn’t rhyme), you should bookmark TheGamer.

DualShockers was founded in 2009 and acquired by Valnet in 2022. Over the past 15+ years they've become a staple of the games media landscape. Their team of gaming experts have covered some of the biggest events in the gaming industry; they've spoken to developers from the disgraced The Day Before, interviewed some of the biggest developers and they're trusted by companies to review some of the biggest game releases.

With a boots on the ground approach to coverage, DualShockers regularly attends major industry events, including Summer Game Fest, Gamescom and The Game Awards.

Hardcore Gamer traces its roots back to a magazine founded in 2005. At a time when magazines were shutting down, it did the opposite. Within months of being founded, hundreds of thousands of issues of Hardcore Gamer Magazine were distributed to subscribers internationally. In 2012, with the ever-expanding internet becoming the clear journalistic focus of the world, Hardcore Gamer was relaunched as an online publication and was acquired in 2023 by Valnet Inc.

Now one of the most frequented gaming journalism publications in the world, Hardcore Gamer has one of the largest active video game review libraries in addition to top video production and heralded long-form content.

Founded in 2015 and acquired by Valnet in 2024, OpenCritic is a review aggregation platform for video games. It aggregates reviews from hundreds of gaming publications and provides a numeric score by averaging all reviews for each game. OpenCritic also tells users what percentage of critics recommend each game and provides a relative ranking across all games on the platform.