Most individuals, companies or game enthusiast, use the WordPress CMS to keep the development cost low. It only costs around $100 to get a gaming site up and running. However, since there are plenty of choices when it comes to WordPress gaming themes, looking for the right one may not be an easy task.
When it comes to choosing a perfect theme, you have to consider a lot of things such as – Responsive design, Arcade script, BuddyPress integration to help you with the community side of the website, cross browser capability and user friendly interface. In this post we’ll showcase 14 of the best gaming themes themes for WordPress.
Gameleon Theme
The magazine styled theme is specifically designed for Gaming websites and is the most complete arcade theme for WordPress. The theme is also compatible with BuddyPress, which you can use to improve the community around your site. This is a multi purpose version with unlimited color schemes.
This theme uses the My Arcade Plugin to display the 70,000 games. Other features include – User Profile Page to improve the user experience, Compatible with bbPress Forum, Ajax Login/Register sidebar widget, Related posts displayed by tags or categories, Most Viewed Posts page template, Magazine or Blog layout for Home Page and Categories, Facebook Comments option, SEO Optimized, Custom Typography & Shortcodes, Popular widgets, Google Analytics Integration, Slider Revolution, jNewsticker included and much more.
Gameleon can be used as a regular WordPress theme, with non-gaming version.
Price: $55
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NewsSetter
NewsSetter is one of the best magazine theme designed by ThemeFuse. This theme is gorgeous and crisp looking, best suited for technology reviews blog and magazine. This theme doesn’t have any arcade solution included but it can be used as Gaming magazine or something similar.
The theme shows the featured posts at the top and all the content on left column.
Price: $59
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MegaMag
MEGAMAG is a flexible all purpose magazine theme. With it’s deep tweakable appearance options the MEGAMAG theme can be molded to fit your exact needs whether it’s a personal blog or a grand scale arcade magazine.
With color coded widgets setting up your homepage will be a breeze and the richly customizable review system will let you tell the world exactly what you think about any given subject.
Price: $45
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GamesTheme
GamesTheme is the most powerful game portal ever. It gets you on the wave of extreme, adrenaline and desire! You are living in your own world! You can create and dip in reality which you have never been before and will never be!
This theme embodies and includes all features and needs of XXI century advanced gamer: starts from the ability to discuss latest and the most popular games on blog, to observe top-list of the most played ones, publish and share your own game strategy, advise your mates some useful and unusual things, maneuvers, ways of the win, also to view videos and trailers of all games, to comment and communicate with your teammates on forum and so on.
Price: $45
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Made
Made is an industrial strength review/magazine BuddyPress theme powered by a rock solid framework built to showcase your content and proven to increase the amount of time users spend on your site. Two unique skins, unlimited color schemes, and a brilliant array of provided background designs enable you to make made your own.
Price: $50
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LeetPress
LeetPress is a WordPress gaming theme with all the features you need to create a great gaming site, such as reviews, videos and screenshots. You can take a look at the video below to see how easy it is to create reviews.
LeetPress also comes with 7 other help videos that will guide you through the theme.
Price: $45
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Score
Score is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme that is ideal for reviewing any kind of content. The Score theme comes with a ton of great features such as – Free JW Player, Ability to follow posts/reviews, RTL support, profile pages, BuddyPress/bbPress ready and WooCommerce compatible.
Price: $55
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IndiGamer
IndiGamer is a multi columns gaming theme and comes with the review system. It also has a top rated reviews widget so you can display your top rated reviews on the sidebar of your website.
Other features include – Responsive layout, theme options panel, custom menus, shortcodes, color variations, etc.
Price: $39
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Reviewit
ReviewIt is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme that provides you with powerful review and community features. Some other features include – Fully BuddyPress/BBPress compatible, Review system, two distinct skins, auto installation & demo content, 7 custom widgets and free $80 JW Player (series 5) commercial license.
Price: $55
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eGamer
eGamer theme is designed by Elegant Themes. This gaming theme was designed with video game blogs in mind, however, it can certainly be adapted to any niche. This theme contains advanced features, including a custom author review system, video embedding (from video sites such as youtube), thumbnail resizing, and more.
Price: $39
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Ithaca
Ithaca theme is designed by CSSIngiter and comes with 5 color schemes. The theme has a custom homepage, which gives the users a change to get a taste from every section of the review site.
Price: $39
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Gonzo
Gonzo is built with semantic HTML5/CSS3 and is completely responsive. Not only is it responsive but it also keeps that magazine feel right down to mobile screen sizes. Practically every typographic element has been endlessly tweaked for different screen sizes to make sure it looks great no matter what the device.
Price: $45
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Tech Theme
The Tech Theme is the perfect website solution for technology based companies and blogs. It’s designed to be capable of functioning as a business website, traditional blog or even a video portfolio.
The Tech Theme is fully integrated with video capabilities, and offers additional features such as Google Fonts, Tweet and Facebook Like buttons and more. Like all of our themes, the Tech Theme was designed and developed to be easily customized to suit your brand.
Price: $69
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Over To You
To end this post, I would like to highlight that all these gaming themes listed here, have a responsive design. That means, you probably won’t need to spend any extra money on making your site mobile-ready.
I hope by now you have chosen your favorite gaming theme, the next step is to purchase the domain and hosting for your soon-to-be launched gaming site. Here’s my hosting recommendation for you:WP Engine or WestHost. If you need any help with WordPress, then please don’t hesitate to contact me.
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