About GamerBolt
Independent gaming coverage by gamers, since 2010
GamerBolt is a gaming site run by the people it was built for. No corporate parent, no content farm — just news, reviews, guides, verified game hubs and free tools, held to a standard you can read for yourself.
- 2010
- Founded
- by James Allsopp
- 1700+
- Articles
- news, reviews & guides
- 36
- Game hubs
- verified & re-checked
- 8
- Free tools
- built in-house
Our story
2010
James “Jay” Allsopp launches GamerBolt — a gaming site built by a gamer, for gamers.
2010–2025
Grows into a full publication — over a thousand articles across news, reviews, guides, editorials and hardware.
2026
Complete platform rebuild. Every article and permalink preserved; the site is rebuilt for speed and accuracy.
Today
Verified game hubs, free in-house tools and published editorial standards — the site we always meant to be.
James “Jay” Allsopp
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
The person behind it
Jay isn’t a media executive who bought a gaming site — he’s the reader it was built for. A PlayStation devotee who still grinds Call of Duty and EA Sports FC, he started GamerBolt in 2010 as an answer to the sites that talked down to gamers, buried the useful answer under filler, or clearly hadn’t played the game they were reviewing.
Sixteen years later he still makes the calls: what gets covered, which games get hubs, which tools get built, and the rule every article has to pass — would this help someone decide what to play or buy? The editorial standards on this page aren’t committee output; they’re how he’s always wanted a gaming site to behave.
If you’ve ever wished game coverage was written by people who actually play — that’s the whole reason this site exists.
Read Jay’s articlesWhat makes GamerBolt different
Verified game hubs
Living databases for the biggest games — release dates, platforms, trailers and FAQs, re-checked on a schedule with visible verification dates.
Browse the hubs
Free tools, built by us
Gamertag and clan name generators, click-speed tests and more — built in-house, no sign-up, no paywall.
Try the tools
Accuracy you can check
A written, public standard: layered fact-checking, named sources, research clearly separated from hands-on testing, and real corrections.
Read our standards
Gamers writing for gamers
PlayStation loyalists, PC builders, Nintendo lifers and competitive obsessives. We disagree with each other — that’s the point.
Meet the team
“Would this help someone decide what to play or buy? That’s the bar every article has to clear.”
The GamerBolt standard
Honest coverage, whatever it costs
We work closely with game publishers and developers, but our coverage stays balanced. If a game or product doesn’t live up to the hype, we say so — including when an expensive product isn’t worth upgrading to, and when the cheaper option is the smarter buy.
Our recommendations are editorial judgements based on the available evidence. Hands-on testing is labelled as hands-on; researched analysis is labelled as researched. We don’t blur the line between the two, and we don’t invent experiences.
The same GamerBolt, upgraded
Still independent, still founder-led. What’s changed is the machine underneath:
- A platform rebuilt for speed — every article and permalink carried over
- Game hubs that re-check their own facts on a schedule
- Free gaming tools designed and built in-house
- Editorial standards published in writing, so you can hold us to them
The old GamerBolt loved games. The new one backs that love with systems — more accurate, more transparent, faster, and built to keep getting better.
Disclosure: as a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, some articles include affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate relationships never decide our recommendations; see our review policy for how we work.