Gaming websites

Game development is one of the fastest-growing and most profitable IT fields. It's not just entertainment, but an entire industry with millions of active users willing to spend time and money on a comfortable gaming experience, a sense of connection, engaging content, insights, and communication. However, standard solutions in this market are becoming less and less effective. Investments in custom gaming website development open up a wide range of opportunities and monetization options.

Arionis Games Studio creates platforms that deliver real results by uniting thousands of people. We create gaming equipment stores, gaming apps, rating/review/streaming portals, platforms for esports matches and tournaments, and much more.

We utilize a modern technology stack (CMS, frameworks, API integrations), optimize websites for high loads, adapt them to any device, including low-end PCs, and implement convenient integrations with gaming services, social networks, forums, and streaming services.

Why invest in gaming website development?

A professionally developed gaming resource is a marketing tool and an effective communication channel with the audience, turning visitors into active users, players, and buyers.

Quality gaming sites:

• form an official communication channel, a platform for the structured presentation of relevant information;
• unite the audience around the brand and its services in one place, simplifying their attraction and increasing the level of loyalty through professional presentation;
• increase traffic and sales through SEO and marketing integrations;
• form an active community, maintaining its interest and level of involvement;
• open up new monetization opportunities (donations, subscriptions, sales of merch, in-game goods, advertising, partnerships, sponsorship);
• help differentiate yourself from competitors and promote games, products, and the company.

With the right approach, gaming platforms can drive audience growth, conversion rates, and stable revenue, strengthening the company and its products' position in the game development market.

What types of gaming websites do we develop?

There are a wide variety of gaming platforms available. Years of experience and a broad technology stack allow the specialists at Arionis Games to implement solutions of any complexity and scale in this niche.

Below are the most popular categories of gaming websites that we develop.

Gaming equipment stores

Online platforms for buying, selling, and trading in-game items, accounts, keys, merchandise, and cosmetic upgrades. Basic features include catalogs, personal accounts, rating and review systems, and integration with game accounts. They attract users seeking to obtain rare items and monetize their achievements.

The development of such gaming websites is profitable due to active player spending on experience enhancements, commissions, subscriptions, advertising, sponsorships, sales of exclusive items, and the growing popularity of the play-to-earn format. Tokenization and NFTs are also possible. These websites are in demand in esports, MMO ecosystems, and projects with a developed in-game economy.

Applications for gamers

Mobile and desktop apps for gamers represent a large segment of software for communication, gameplay assistance, content management, and earning money. These include voice and text chats for co-op play, platforms or forums for communication and content sharing, streaming, tournament, and esports services, stores, and marketplaces. Also popular are apps with guides, knowledge bases, maps, stat trackers, betting, skin trading, NFT games, screen recording software, and game acceleration.

This is an ecosystem of tools that makes the gameplay more engaging, convenient, and rewarding—from communication, matchmaking, and character backstory exploration to trading and real-world earnings. This platform format increases audience engagement, enables the implementation of premium features and advertising, and simultaneously increases LTV.

Review sites, experts, video streaming

Platforms with game project reviews, news, guides, streams, and other gaming-related content generate good traffic and attract large audiences, building an active, loyal community. Monetization of such a gaming website is possible through advertising, sponsorship, and affiliate programs.

This category of gaming platforms helps users make decisions about purchasing games, watch walkthroughs/tournaments/challenges, learn and share life hacks, communicate, hone their skills, have fun, and navigate the market. All these options maintain interest in projects, shaping the media environment around brands, partners, and products.

Tournament sites

Platforms for organizing and hosting online tournaments and various local competitions offer significant potential. The popularity of esports and other competitions is growing annually, as is the audience for such events. These can be monetized through partnerships with sponsors, advertisers, and paid participation. These platforms include websites dedicated to board games, video games, sports, and other competitions.

Tournament brackets, match and tournament series management, streams and online broadcasts, forecasts, voting, tournament bracket integration via widgets and APIs, support for a multi-season structure with rankings and leagues—the functionality is quite extensive.

Esports websites

These online resources are focused specifically on esports and everything related to it: news, analysis, fan clubs, and match schedules. eSports is a very popular segment, and websites related to the topic quickly gather a loyal audience of fans, players, and professionals, whose engagement is easy to maintain with a competent approach to development and maintenance.

These can include news, analytical resources, tournament resources, platforms with guides and expert opinions, streaming and video platforms, sports betting portals, forums, and communities for sharing experiences. They can be monetized in a variety of ways, including through sponsorship, ticket sales, merchandise, and information services.

Game rating sites

Game and team statistics and analytics attract a steady stream of interested users. Resources with such data help navigate the industry landscape, facilitate discussions, and forecasts. Player and team rankings based on match results, tournaments, and rating systems allow for tracking leaders, underdogs, and opponents, as well as evaluating games based on graphics, gameplay, and popularity. They also provide the opportunity to choose interesting projects/games or teams for betting, opponents for battles, discover new releases, and study match statistics, weapons, builds, and more. Such platforms can be monetized through advertising, premium accounts, and partnerships with developers and publishers.

Websites for eSports matches

Platforms for organizing, broadcasting, and tracking esports games and tournaments are extremely popular among fans, players, and professionals. This is because they provide access to objective, up-to-date information, allowing for immersion in the industry, from watching matches and analyzing them to making betting decisions and participating directly.

These may include live broadcasts, schedules and results, statistics, analysis of game results, characters, strategies, news, tournament updates, and streaming. Access to register and participate in online competitions for users, including those with a premium subscription, can also be enabled. Other monetization options include embedded advertising and paid services.

Why is custom gaming website development profitable?

Standard solutions are rarely effective, especially in dynamic industries like game development. Therefore, choosing custom development over buying a ready-made gaming website makes perfect sense:

• A unique design makes it easier to differentiate yourself from competitors, helps you be remembered by your audience, communicate your company's values and advantages, and connect with consumers.
• Flexible functionality ensures user comfort and an effective solution to the project's business challenges. With custom development, a gaming website is tailored to your niche, competitive environment, audience, business model, and goals. It can be enhanced with ratings, tournaments, streaming options, and in-game stores.
• Full adaptation to business processes – ready-made resources are limited in functionality and integrations, which increases costs and risks, while custom platforms are easily integrated with corporate CRM systems, analytics, and payment gateways.
• Speed, stability, and security – with custom development, a gaming website is tailored to specific needs, simplifying and speeding up the release, ensuring reliability and high system performance. Off-the-shelf solutions are often overloaded with unnecessary modules that slow down the site and degrade the user experience.
• Scalability and support for gaming websites – with typical portals, scalability is limited by built-in capabilities, and maintenance may not be included in the price. With custom development, the product can be easily and quickly expanded as the audience and project grow, and professional post-release support ensures the stable operation of the platform.

Our approach to development

Arionis Games Studio creates websites with a customized interface and functionality that reflect the project's tone of voice, instantly distinguishing it from the market. In addition to our specialized expertise and practical experience in web development and game development, we achieve these results through a comprehensive, consistent approach to each project.

Creating a custom gaming website in our studio includes the following steps:

• Reviewing project details. We analyze business goals, target audience, and competitors, approve the architecture, functionality, and technology stack, and create specifications.
• Prototyping and design. We create prototypes of key pages, perform UX/UI design, develop navigation and interfaces, and adapt them for target devices.
• Product development and integration. We program the frontend and backend, integrate gaming services, payment systems, chats, streaming modules, tournament tables, and more, and configure the admin panel.
• Testing. We check usability, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility, resilience to traffic surges, protection from hacks, attacks, data leaks, cheating, and more.
• Launch, support, and development. After successful testing and release, the Arionis team implements updates, adds necessary integrations and services, updates functionality based on feedback, and more, as agreed upon.

Professional support, full-service support, and expandable functionality allow you to grow your website in line with your business without delays or interruptions.

In our projects, we utilize a variety of interactive elements and retention mechanics on gaming websites, including rankings, tournaments, and in-game events, which encourage users to return. We ensure high performance and a high-quality user experience – easy navigation and responsive design guarantee a comfortable experience for your visitors on any device.

Benefits of ordering gaming website development from us:

• An in-house team of designers and developers with 5+ years of experience in game development and over 10 years in web development. Their deep industry expertise, understanding of the gaming audience, and broad tech stack ensure high-quality results.
• Flexible collaboration models – we provide ready-made dedicated IT teams, offer outsourcing and outstaffing options, and complete project-based tasks.
• Full-cycle development and tailored services: from analytics and concept creation to release and post-launch support. For example, you can order a separate gaming website layout from us. We can also refine, optimize, or redesign an existing website if needed.
• Reliability. We collaborate transparently – strictly according to the terms of reference, with reporting at each iteration.

By ordering gaming website development services from Arionis Games, you receive a comprehensive solution to your business needs: modern technologies, sophisticated monetization models, and sophisticated game integration allow you to generate income within the first few months of launch.

If you're looking to create your own gaming website, contact us – we'll offer an effective strategy for bringing your ideas to life.