GameFAQs vs Prima Games eGuides

GameFAQs is a free website for video game information and player communities. Its database covers games from the last five decades, while individual game pages may include guides, questions and answers, message boards, cheats, achievements, reviews, media, news, and release details. Players can ask or answer questions and join boards for games, communities, special interests, and gaming systems; the homepage says questions are usually answered in under an hour. Logged-in users can save favorite games and boards and request notifications about new guides, cheats, reviews, questions, news, and board activity. The site also lists game companies and credits, contests, rankings, and user-submitted Top 10 lists. Its Top 100 page ranks the 100 most visited game pages and is updated daily. Contributors can submit original HTML guides, FAQs, and walkthroughs for selected bounties, sometimes with GameFAQs Answers content. Bounty contributors must be at least 18, legally permitted to work where they live, and provide identity and tax information when requesting a first lock. Registration and login are available, with help categories covering accounts, contributions, guides, boards, Q&A, and saved files.

Prima Games eGuides is a web library of official video-game strategy guides. The archive lists 251 guides and 25,589,130 words of strategy, while a redeem-code page says 256 guides are available in full with a free account. Guides include walkthroughs, maps, collectible checklists, and boss tactics, with full-text search across the collection. Without an account, readers can finish three guides and open the first three sections of other guides; a free account opens every guide in full. Guides work on phones, and checklists remember where a reader stopped. Maps and checklists load inside guide pages from cartographer.gamurs.group, so privacy extensions or networks blocking embedded frames can prevent them from appearing. The store is closed, meaning guides cannot be bought or refunded through the site. Old accounts, owned guides, and purchases were migrated, and sign-in can use an old email or a one-time link expiring after 15 minutes. Available guides were published from 2009 through 2018.