PCGamingWiki
Sign in to saveAlso known as PCGW, PC Gaming Wiki
The PCGamingWiki is a British-based collaboratively edited wiki internet encyclopaedia focused on collecting video game behaviour data (such as save locations and startup parameters), to optimising gameplay, and fixing issues found in PC games. Intended fixes and optimisations range from simple cutscene removals, to modifications that allow for wide-screen resolutions, and more. The wiki site runs on MediaWiki software, and was created by Andrew Tsai, a British businessman from London, England. The site was founded on . As of October 2022, the PCGamingWiki has more than 30,000 registered users
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Show 11 more facts
- inception
- 2012-02-09
- Alexa rank
- 37808
- short name
- PCGW
- hashtag
- PCGW
- privacy policy URL
- www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/PCGamingWiki:Privacy_policy
- API endpoint URL
- www.pcgamingwiki.com/w/api.php
- random page URL
- www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Games
- social media followers
- 4392
- Commons category
- PCGamingWiki
- DuckDuckGo bang
- pcgamingwiki
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Article
2 sectionsContents
- History
- References
The PCGamingWiki is a British-based collaboratively edited wiki internet encyclopaedia focused on collecting video game behaviour data (such as save locations and startup parameters), to optimising gameplay, and fixing issues found in PC games. Intended fixes and optimisations range from simple cutscene removals, to modifications that allow for wide-screen resolutions, and more. The wiki site runs on MediaWiki software, and was created by Andrew Tsai, a British businessman from London, England. The site was founded on . As of October 2022, the PCGamingWiki has more than 30,000 registered users, and 48,000 content pages. Since its inception, the PCGamingWiki has been featured on numerous gaming-focused websites, including Kotaku, Destructoid, and Rock Paper Shotgun. It regularly receives more than 10,000 unique page views a day.
==History== The PCGamingWiki was founded on 9 February 2012 by Andrew Tsai, who is also known under the username "Andytizer". Tsai was motivated to create the wiki based on his experiences with the games L.A. Noire and Titan Quest. The wiki was mostly barren until Tsai enlisted the help of users on the website Reddit.