Game launch monitoring
Use PC Gamer endpoints to turn game launch monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Research the PC gaming beat by separating product tests, playing guides and industry news.
Extract PC game news, reviews, hardware, mods and practical guides from PC Gamer as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
10
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "PC Gamer",
"endpoint": "pcgamer-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/pcgamer/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract PC game news, reviews, hardware, mods and practical guides from PC Gamer as structured JSON.
Use PC Gamer endpoints to turn game launch monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use PC Gamer endpoints to turn hardware review research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use PC Gamer endpoints to turn guide and mod trend tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live PC Gamer endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 10 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented PC Gamer endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
10 request parameters are documented across those PC Gamer endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 PC Gamer endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
PC Gamer endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
5 hosted MCP tools back the PC Gamer endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/pcgamer/article
/pcgamer/author
/pcgamer/headlines
/pcgamer/news
/pcgamer/sections
Endpoint catalog
/pcgamer/articleReturns a PC Gamer article by canonical `pcgamer.com` `url`; review pages work the same way as news articles. The response has title, description, section, authors, lead image, publication and update times, a `paywalled` flag and body `paragraphs`.
MCP tool pcgamer_article
/pcgamer/authorReturns a PC Gamer author profile by `slug` (for example `harvey-randall`) or a pcgamer.com author `url`; supply exactly one. `page` picks the 1-based page of recent articles (default 1) and overrides a `/page/<n>` segment in `url`. The response has `name`, `job_title`, `biography`, `social_links`, articles, `page` and `has_next_page`.
MCP tool pcgamer_author
/pcgamer/headlinesReturns recent PC Gamer headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes one of eight slugs: `deals`, `games`, `gaming-industry`, `guides`, `hardware`, `movies-tv`, `news` or `software`. Each item has a title and URL, and may include summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool pcgamer_headlines
/pcgamer/newsReturns the current PC Gamer top stories, with no parameters. Each item has a title and URL, and may include summary, author, publication time and image. Use `pcgamer-headlines` to read one section.
MCP tool pcgamer_news
/pcgamer/sectionsLists the eight top-level PC Gamer sections accepted by `pcgamer-headlines`: `deals`, `games`, `gaming-industry`, `guides`, `hardware`, `movies-tv`, `news` and `software`. Each entry has its `slug`, display `name` and `url`.
MCP tool pcgamer_sections
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How to scrape PC Gamer
PC Gamer is a Future publication focused on computer games and the hardware used to play them. Its review policy uses a 100-point scale, generally leaves Early Access games unscored, and says game review scores are final even when later coverage follows updates; selected hardware scores can change. Preserve review type, score, and publication date rather than comparing a guide or review-in-progress with a final verdict. The section endpoint exposes top-level hubs, while the main news endpoint uses the public RSS feed.
Query /pcgamer/sections and send a returned hub to /pcgamer/headlines. Keep the hub in your records: a review of a new GPU belongs to a different evidence set from a patch guide for a game.
/pcgamer/news supplies fresh top stories. Merge it with selected hub results by canonical URL, then retain both placements if you are examining what PC Gamer chooses to promote.
Pass canonical URLs to /pcgamer/article to collect article text and metadata. /pcgamer/author adds a writer’s biography and one page of recent work; do not treat that page as a complete publication history.
FAQ
Yes, as editorial evidence: retain review titles, URLs, publication dates and the article text returned from public pages. Product benchmark conclusions still need to be read in their original context.
Guides describe how to play or configure something; reviews evaluate a release or device. Keeping those formats separate prevents a count of guide updates from looking like new product verdicts.
PC Gamer says game scores are final, while selected hardware scores may change as the product landscape changes. Store the score with the article's date and review type, and do not assume every new article revises an older verdict.