Gamers Hell is an online magazine

Online magazine

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 dedicated to cataloging and reviewing video games of the past and present. A large number of freeware games can be downloaded from Gamers Hell and reviews of most popular games can be found there as well as official trailers and a "Gamers Hell.com TV" program. According to Alexa Internet

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 graph charts, the site was ranked number 1,705 as of 2 January 2009 and around one in every 25,000 page views in 2008 was a Gamers Hell page. Gamers Hell claims on their site that they get 3,000,000 visits per month with an average 5 page views per visitor.. Gamers Hell claims to be the "Largest independent videogaming site" but it does not feature as one of the "four stalwarts" listed in a reputable website article. Gamers Hell provides information and downloads for platforms including PC

Personal computer

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 Win

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-Linux

Linux

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, PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

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, Xbox

Xbox

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, Xbox 360

Xbox 360

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, GameCube

Nintendo GameCube

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, Wii

Wii

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, N-Gage

N-Gage

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, Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

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, PSP

PlayStation Portable

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  and PlayStation 3

PlayStation 3

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Advertising blunder February 2009

The McAfee SiteAdvisor

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 security report for February 2009 indicates that testing showed one of the Gamers Hell advertisers to be a "red site", adtrgt.com which breached the security of the browser used by McAfee for testing purposes. Despite this blunder, McAfee found all other linked sites to be safe "green sites". The tests included downloading three random files, of which one was installed

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on the test computer system, and testing of external links. All three files were found to have the lowest "nuisance scale" rating. Also McAfee found Gamers Hell to be a "Dutch" site with "lots of users".

External links

• Gamers Hell official website
• Gamers Hell.com TV listing page
• The Gamers Hell Commitment official mission statement