In this article we list some great free and premium wordpress game themes.
1. Game blog wordp ReviewIt: Review WordPress & BuddyPress Theme ress theme
ReviewIt is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme that provides you with powerful review and community features.
Key Features
- Advanced review options (uses GD Star Rating plugin)
- Allow editors to review content
- Allow users to rate content via post and/or comments
- Vote up/down other users comments
- Multiset rating (multiple rating criteria for individual posts)
- Sort reviews by date, title, rating
- Add custom review tags for easy categorizing of reviews
- Extensive admin panel
- Custom post/page options
- Custom post types (reviews and slides)
- BuddyPress/bbPress ready (1.5+)
- 2 theme skins (Dark and Light)
- Front-end login, register and profile pages
- Lots of custom shortcodes
- YouTube, Vimeo and self hosted audio/video (FLV/MP4/M4V/MP3/HTML5) support
- Free JW player commercial license worth $80
- 7 custom widgets (GP Recent Comments, GP Review Boxes, GP Review Lists, GP Post Boxes, GP You May Like, GP Review/Post Entries and GP Latest Members widgets)
- Fully localised (translation files)
- Image resizing
- Advanced audio/video support for prettyPhoto lightbox
- Ajax/PHP contact form
- Unlimited Sidebars
- Demo content included (XML file)
- WordPress 3.0+ drag and drop menus
- WordPress 3.0+ custom background manager
- Degrades gracefully if javascript is disabled
- Full theme PSD included
- Detailed documentation
- Compatible in all major browsers
2. Game Portal WordPress & BuddyPress Theme
Game Portal WordPress & BuddyPress Theme
Game Portal is a powerful WordPress Theme with standout design and multipurpose functionality. This theme supports BuddyPress which gives you an amazing chance to build your own social network community within your website easily.
Turn your website into interactive place for fans and visitors via multiple user groups, discussion forums, activity steams, friend connections, private communications and your favorite blogging features.
Note, this theme is compatible with BuddyPress V1.5.5.
Essential Features
- Unique Home Page layout
- Page Templates: News, Portfolio, Contacts, Main Page, Full Width
- Shortcodes support: sitemap, title, separator, column, container, float, custom button, blockquote, dropcaps
- Filterable Portfolio
- 1-, 2- and 3- column Portfolio
- Four Menu areas
- Four Sidebar positions
- BuddyPress V1.5.5 support
- and much more …
3. Gameleon – WordPress Arcade Theme
Gameleon is a powerful WordPress theme, especially designed and created for Online Games !
- Upload swf games using WordPress Media Upload button or using embed code
- Three extra fields on game/post page: Flash Game area, How to play instructions and Game Difficulty level
- Most Popular Games Page
- Most Played Games Page
- Lights Off Option with sound effect on Game Page – see the Demo
- Fancy On-Off Checkbox Buttons on Admin theme area
- Most Played Games Counter optional showing on different areas of the theme, also visible in WordPress Administration Posts Area
- I Like This feature, optional showing on different areas of the theme
- Powerful Game Description Block: on the game/post page, near description of the game, you can choose to show the featured image, the advertising block or both randomly. Also you can choose to show only game description. Just see a Live Game Demo and simply refresh the page
4. GamePress
Pushing the WordPress engine to the limits, GamePress allows you to create your very own, fully-featured, News & Reviews website!
New in GamePress 2:
- Works in WordPress 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 AND 2 .8!
- Threaded comment support for WordPress 2.7
- ‘Smart re-sizing’ of Featured images.
- Drop-down navigation.
- Categories drop-down from ‘News’ item. (by popular demand)
- Integrated support for Google Analytics
- Code streamlined for faster performance.
- Latest Reviews/Previews/Videos are now actual widgets.
- ‘Smart Resizer’ for Features Slider images. (by popular demand)
Comes with both black & white styles!
Other Features:
- Animated “Featured Content” slider to showcase your most important news.
- Several page templates for ultimate control of how you display different posts.
- Easy creation of Reviews, Previews & Features pages – separate from News posts.
- Display videos in the Sidebar.
- Breadcrumb Navigation.
- Built-in Advert Management.
- Three custom widgets!
- Widget-ready sidebar further expand your theme.
- Easily link to your GamePress Forum (sold separately)
- XHTML 1 .0 Strict & CSS Valid.
- Complete documentation.
- Includes Header PSD .
5. LeetPress – A Gaming WordPress Theme
LeetPress is a WordPress gaming theme with all the features you need to create a great gaming site, such as reviews, videos and screenshots. You can take a look at the video below to see how easy it is to create reviews. LeetPress also comes with 7 other help videos that will guide you through the theme.
Free Themes
6. MmoPress
MmoPress is a free WordPress theme with options page. Supports the post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche especially for games, online games or entertainment sites or blogs.
7. Fun Never Ends
This games template is compatible with latest WordPress versions and of course, backward compatible. Coming with threaded comments and a couple of other useful settings and tested on major web browsers. a
8. iGames
iGames is a free WordPress theme with options page and supports the post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche especially for games, online games or entertainment sites or blogs.
9. GamesMania
GamesMania is a free premium WordPress theme with featured content option and options page. Supports post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche, especially for games or entertainment sites