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Gaming News. r/gamingnews is your trusted source for news and discussions related to games and gaming. Founded 2010 · 823.4K members · links only

820.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 18.6K upvotes, which works out to 23 per 1,000 members.

23peak upvotes per 1,000 members
820.5Kmembers
18.6Kbest post
3.3Kmost comments
199posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

93%
Link 93% Video 5% Question 1% Image 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

News 68 Rumour 2 Discussion 2 Misleading Title 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

"It makes me sick": Skyrim modder with 475,000 downloads, fed up with "daily harassment," abandons modding after "thousands of hours" of work on what…

↑ 18.6K 💬 1.2K link 2024

Elon Musk confirms he cheated to become a top player in Path of Exile 2 and Diablo IV

↑ 11.9K 💬 485 link 2025

CD Projekt Red Doesn't See A Place For Microtransactions In Single-Player Games

↑ 8.1K 💬 556 link 2024

Fortnite Skibidi Toilet Crossover is So Hated That Fans Want Valve to Shut it Down Already

↑ 6.4K 💬 477 link 2024

Japanese shrine once repaired thanks to Ghost of Tsushima fans bans all tourists after “unforgivable act of disrespect”

↑ 5.7K 💬 198 link 2025

Bungie's attempt to dismiss the Destiny 2 copyright case using YouTube videos describing 'vaulted' elements of the game has been shut down by a judge…

↑ 5.4K 💬 286 link 2025

Palworld drops a massive update that further distances the survival game from Pokemon following the Nintendo lawsuit, and fans couldn't be more proud…

↑ 5.4K 💬 756 link 2024

Trump tariffs will make video game consoles up to 40% more expensive

↑ 5K 💬 3.3K link 2024

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship

↑ 4.2K 💬 274 link 2025

Valve bans all Steam games that force players to watch advertisements

↑ 3.9K 💬 167 link 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/gamingnews, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/gamingnews?
r/gamingnews ("Gaming News") describes itself this way: r/gamingnews is your trusted source for news and discussions related to games and gaming. It was founded in 2010 and has 823.4K members.
How many members does r/gamingnews have?
r/gamingnews has about 820.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 199 of its posts; the biggest reached 18.6K upvotes, which is 23 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/gamingnews?
""It makes me sick": Skyrim modder with 475,000 downloads, fed up with "daily harassment," abandons modding after "thousands of hours" of wor" reached 18.6K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/gamingnews.
What subreddits are similar to r/gamingnews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/gamingnews?
Of the posts we hold, 93% are link posts and 5% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/gamingnews?
Across 199 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 19:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 15:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/gamingnews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/gamingnews has 2.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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