Game8｜The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan!

game8.co

Scanned 16 Oct 2026Fresh928 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteGame8｜The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan!The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan! Game8 delivers the latest in gaming news, walkthrough information, and other useful tools so that you can get the most out of your gaming experience! Our pages for popular apps and new games are being updated every minute!

game8.co looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2018. It is built with Ruby on Rails; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #5,709 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #36,162

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#5,709	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 5,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#36,162	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Ruby on Rails.

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Evidence · page source, line 5
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<meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token">
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Everything else it uses (8)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager and more.

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cf-ray: a4b316fa2c325f33-SIN
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Evidence · response header
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x-amz-cf-id: WAIYIa27q4pugXkhnm8uCVuHjkZN6QM77zpZPxbaZJd55RL96J0ERw==
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Amazon Route 53DNSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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game8.co NS ns-1450.awsdns-53.org.
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Evidence · DNS record
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game8.co MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
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Google Tag ManagerTag managerShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 71
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…'+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f…
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Evidence · DNS record
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game8.co TXT google-site-verification=9WE6j7RsN5FaT7wzg-CusMq8v3iP4HISSjNQ9EQXcS8
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Datadog RUMMonitoringShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 35
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…)(window,document,'script','https://www.datadoghq-browser-agent.com/us1/v5/datadog-rum.js','DD_RUM') DD_R…
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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

3 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

Domain registered13 Nov 2018, 7 years agoNoted
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted

Every signal we looked at

On the site

Contact pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

Behind the site

Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
Domain registered13 Nov 2018, 7 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.registry.co)
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings3 of 6 in placePartly
Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS records

A second opinion on its security setup: Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory grades the site when you open it. Ten checks before you buy · A signal looks wrong? Report it

What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsGame8｜The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan!The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan! Game8 delivers the latest in gaming news, walkthrough information, and other useful tools so that you can get the most out of your gaming experience! Our pages for popular apps and new games are being updated every minute!

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · its own title or description

Game8｜The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan! · Game8｜The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan! · The Top Gaming and App Walkthr

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 79

<a href="/articles/featured/phantom-blade-zero-interview-devs-havent-done-deathless-run">featuredPhantom Blade Zero Interview: Why Even the Devs Can't Do a Deathless Run In Its Hardest ModeOctober 15, 2026</a>

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Who is behind it

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 79

© 2019 Game8, Inc.

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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

AI use

AI training: asks GPTBot and Google-Extended to stay away.
AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 18

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 21

User-Agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /

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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name: Game8｜The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan!
Language: English (en-US)
What it tells search engines: None

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

How we know

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Score breakdown

Site Score

87 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 7 years ago

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on HTTPS · protective settings

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · doesn’t tell search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 2018; first archived in 2016.

17 Jan 2016First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
4 May 2016First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
13 Nov 2018Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.registry.co)
16 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 9 of 11 years · see the first capture

2016: captured
2017: no capture
2018: no capture
2019: captured
2020: captured
2021: captured
2022: captured
2023: captured
2024: captured
2025: captured
2026: captured

The web archive saw this address on 17 Jan 2016, before its current registration on 13 Nov 2018. It was probably registered again, possibly by a new owner.

Changes, earlier scans and alerts

Since our previous scan: This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.

This scan, in numbers

928 checks on 16 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

Questions about game8.co

What is game8.co?

game8.co describes itself: “The Top Gaming and App Walkthroughs Straight from Japan! Game8 delivers the latest in gaming news, walkthrough information, and other useful tools so that you can get the most out of your gaming…” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is game8.co?

Its domain was registered on 13 Nov 2018, 7 years ago. See the evidence

What is game8.co built with?

It is built with Ruby on Rails; we found 9 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is game8.co?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Was game8.co made with AI?

We found no traces of an AI site builder. That doesn’t prove a person built it: AI coding assistants leave no traces. See the evidence

Who is behind game8.co?

Its copyright line names Game8, Inc. See the evidence

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 16 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

What this scan can’t tell you

Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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