[1][2][3] In 2010, at the age of 14, Riad Chikhani, Phillip Luu, and Malik Akl established Rune Gear, a forum for the game RuneScape.

[4] GAMURS began as a social network for gamers after joining the NRMA Jumpstart program run by the Slingshot Accelerator.

[7] Once the acquisitions were completed, the three platforms were merged, making GAMURS a content provider for titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Halo 5: Guardians, Hearthstone, and Overwatch.

[17] On February 10, it announced the acquisition of Twinfinite, a website focused on video game news, reviews, features, and opinions.

[19] Their firing of The Escapist's editor-in-chief in November resulted in a number of contributors at the website—notably Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of Zero Punctuation—resigning and forming a new employee-owned outlet.