Best Game Premium WordPress Themes

[Updated: 11 May, 2012]

This collection of Best Game Premium WordPress Themes represents the best game premium themes for WordPress.If you’re looking for a WordPress theme to build an entertainment-related websites and includes videos, pictures, advertisements and publish information about new game introduce & tutorial, strategies for playing games, game-engine hackers, game glitches & bugs etc. You’re in the right place.These game themes will transform your standard WordPress blog into a superior publishing platform. This collection page will be updated regularly.

BuildWPA is a premium responsive WordPress arcade theme from WPArcade. It comes with 2 color schemes, 3 slider, 25 custom widgets, custom login page styling and more.

Features

• Unique Arcade Design
• Responsive WordPress Arcade Theme
• BuddyPress 1.5+ Compatible
• bbPress 2.0+ Compatible
• 2 Styles to choose from: Blue and Green
• 3 Sliders – Featured Games Panel
• Category Blocks easy to add from WPA Builder
• 25 Custom Built Widgets
• Drag and Drop Layout in WPA Builder
• 2 Menus: Drop-Down and Lava Lamp Menu
• Pregame Page
• Multiple Thumbnails Display Modes – 35x35px; 48x48px; 75x75px; 160x120px;
• Custom Login Page Styling
• Ajaxed Post Pagination
• Ajaxed Posts SortBy
• Ajaxed Comments
• Rounded Version for each Style
• Carousel Posts
• Lava Lamp Menu
• Login and Log Out Box
• Integrated Social Sharing Buttons
• Ads Before game loading with timer from Theme Options
• Integrated User Panel with Avatar, Options and Favorite Games
• Ajax All Games list in footer
• Logo change from Theme Settings
• Background change from Theme Settings
• Custom CSS change from Theme Settings
• Banner Exchange change from Theme Settings
• Jumplist Games Amount from Theme Settings
• Text after Category from Theme Settings
• BuildWPA comes packaged with a .po file for easy WordPress theme translations into your desired language

Price: $35

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Swagger is a premium magazine-style WordPress theme from ThemeForest that allows you to create unlimited custom review “mini-sites” within your main website. That means you can load up your site with tons of content and then present it to your users in an organized way using just one or multiple mini-sites. Swagger’s front page will grab content from your mini-sites and display it all together in an awesome, content-rich page to give your users the best user experience possible. Swagger is guaranteed to increase both the average length of time that your users spend on your site and the average number of pages that they view.

Features

• Unlimited customized review mini-sites with 4 ways to rate (numbers, percentages, letters, stars), perfect for topics like:
• Laptops, Smart Phones, Tablets, and Audio/Video products
• Movies, Music, and Video Games
• Restaurants, Beer, and Wine
• Fashion Trends and Clothing
• Travel Destinations and Vacation Getaways
• Automobiles
• Books, Magazines, Web Sites, and Comics
• Casinos, Pinball Machines, Ice Cream, Puppies, WordPress Review Themes…Anything you want.
• Works for all kinds of sites from non-review personal blogs to huge content heavy sites like CNET and Good Magazine
• All of the latest jQuery enhancements and user interface upgrades to provide a rich user experience
• Tons of premium features such as beautiful TinyMCE shortcode buttons and custom meta fields so you don’t have to remember any shortcodes
• Optimized, minified, compressed, validated, and fully WordPress 3.3+ compliant
• 5-star customer support and active theme development means Swagger will be relevant for a long time to come
• 60+ theme options for each review type you create so you can customize the heck out of them
• Unique background images, logos, icons, layouts, content sliders, color schemes, sidebars, etc. for each review type
• Choose one of four ways to rate your reviews, including:
  1. Numbers between 0 and 10 (with increments of 0.1)
  2. Percentages between 0 and 100 (with increments of 1)
  3. Letter grades from A+ to F (with pluses + and minuses – for each letter grade)
  4. Starsfrom 0 to 5 (with half-star increments) with 5 color options:
     1. Yellow
     2. Orange
     3. Red
     4. Green
     5. Blue
• Unlimited rating criteria, which is automatically averaged into a total score
• Unlimited review meta fields (descriptive summary text about the review)
• Unlimited review taxonomies (review-specific categories)
• Unique animations for each of the 4 types of ratings
• Featured videos in addition to or instead of featured images (works good for movie trailers, for example)
• Customizable color ranges for ratings add visual cues to how good a particular rating is, just like how MetaCritic works
• 5 unique layoutsavailable for each mini-site’s front page and category archive pages:
  1. 2 panel grid with sidebar
  2. Vertical post listing with sidebar
  3. 3 panel grid with sidebar
  4. 3 panel full-width grid
  5. 4 panel full-width grid
• Create non-rated articles inside of each review type, which means you don’t have to give every article a rating if you don’t want to
• Lots more options and ways to make your mini-sites completely unique using the Review Options admin panel
• 80+ shortcodes
• 11 custom widget panels (plus all of your review type unique widget panels)
• 10 custom widgets:
  1. 2×2 ad block
  2. Email subscribe form
  3. Flickr feed
  4. Latest tweets
  5. Page & Archive tabs
  6. Post & Comment tabs
  7. Latest Reviews
  8. Latest Review tabs (from multiple review types)
  9. Review Category tabs
  10. Unwrapped text/HTML
• 3 drop-down custom menus, each styled 3 levels deep
• Custom meta field panels so you don’t have to remember any shortcodes
• Integrated randomized, sophisticated advertising network to display ads within your post listings
• 13 additional template position ad spots
• Slick “About The Author” and jQuery tabbed Related Postspanel under each post/review
• Reviews are not required. Swagger works great as a non-review blog too (or mix-n-match)
• Two separate theme admin pages (Theme Options and Review Options), each tabbed, toggled, and organized into easy to use sets of options
• 140+ theme options and 60+ review options = over 200 total options
• UNBRANDED theme options pages
• Tons of social options including Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Google Analytics, Feedburner, and more
• Threaded, paged, and styled comments
• Featured videos in addition to (or instead of) featured images
• Included, fixed Share Panel floats your social media buttons to the left of your main content
• Author listing page template shows all of your contributors in a beautiful 2 panel grid layout
• 3 featured image sizes on single post pages (or hide image) using custom drop down menu
• 404 page nicely styled with instructions and a search box
• 5 unique layout optionsto choose from for home page, review mini-sites, and category archive pages:
  1. 2 panel grid with sidebar
  2. Vertical post listing with sidebar
  3. 3 panel grid with sidebar
  4. 3 panel full-width grid
  5. 4 panel full-width grid

• Nivo jQuery “featured” slider with thumbnails on front page
• Unlimited review-specific Nivo sliders on review mini-site front pages
• jCarousel “latest” slider at the top of all pages (can be enabled on a per-post, per-page, or per-review type basis in theme options)
• jCarousel “spotlight” slider under the featured slider on the front-page
• jCarousel “article” slider under the “spotlight” slider on the front page with arrow navigation, as well as just above the footer on all other pages (can be enabled on a per-post, per-page, or per-review type basis in theme options).
• jQuery Mosaic effect applied to posts in the jCarousel “latest” slider
• jCarousel slider shortcode included so you can put content sliders with unlimited panels directly in your posts and pages
• Tabs (shortcodes, widgets, related articles panel)
• Nivo slider
• jCarouselLite slider
• Image icon darken mouseover effect
• Button darken mouseover effect
• Rating animations
• Superfish menus
• Box toggles (shortcodes)
• Color pickers (review options, demo options)
• Mosaic image slide effects
• Easing (applies to any element that animates)
• Colorbox image lightboxes
• 28 included transparent background textures which can be combined with any color
• 48 included background images (or upload your own)
• @font-face fonts (not Cufon)
• Optimized javascript, CSS , and images
• TinyMCE buttons for all short codes
• Extended user profile options for social media
• Layered PNGs and PSDs included
• Demo dummy content XML file included
• Fully leverages WordPress 3.3+ features
• Intuitive, indented, spaced, and commented code
• Valid XHTML
• Compatible with all major browsers (including IE7 +)
• Theme update auto-notification on your admin dashboard
• Fully Localized
• Compressed and uncompressed versons of javascript files included
• Awesome help file including a quick start section and full documentation including screenshots
• Support Forum that is monitored 7 days a week

Price: $40

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eGamer is a premium WordPress theme from Elegant Themes that design for video game blogs, however it can easy be adapted to suit any type of site. The theme contains a custom author review system, video embedding (from video sites such as youtube), thumbnail resizing, a theme options page to control banner ads, recent reviews section, recent video section, popular/random articles section etc. You can also choose between the default magazine style layout and a more basic blog style design.

Features

• 2 layout options: magazine style and blog style
• 4 colour schemes (red, blue, green purple)
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Option Pages
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design
• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• WordPress 2.7 compatible
• Three Unique Post Formats
• Threaded Comments
• Featured Articles
• Gravatar ready
• Firefox compatible
• IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Advertisement Ready

Price: Club Membership for only $39 (Best Value)
Developer’s License: $89

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Elegant Themes Club Membership provides unlimited access to 60+ themes with 2-3 new themes each month (the price per theme is less than $0.65!). They create high quality, professional User-Interface, fashion & beautiful premium WordPress themes for various niches including: Business / CMS, ecommerce, magazine / news, portal, portfolio, personal, micro and professional blogging.

iThaca is a gaming WordPress theme from cssigniter designed for who want to run a gaming reviews site. The theme features 5 color schemes, flexible featured content slider, custom widgets & navigations, custom options panel and more.

Features

• Five Color Schemes — iThaca comes with 5 predefined color schemes.
• Homepage Slider — Using the most flexible jQuery slider (jQuery Cycle), this theme provide a really amazing article sliding system for your homepage. More than 10 visual effects to choose from.
• Custom Widgets — Widgets are never enough so we have created a set of custom ones to make your life easier.
• Custom Navigation — Mix and match pages, categories, custom links, external ones and anything you need with our 2 custom navigation placeholders.
• Custom Options Panel — iThaca provides a specific range of options to setup your review site fast.
• Support — Detailed documentation will get you started, a changelog will keep you up to date and our forum is available for you to post your questions.
• xhtml – html5 versions — In the zip file you will find 4 different versions of the theme. Plain xhtml and html5 versions and xhtml – html5 WordPress versions.
• Newsletter Template — To make things complete, here’s a newsletter template. Plain html and Campaign monitor versions included.

Price: $79 (Get access to all present and future themes for a whole year.)

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Dominion is the second gantry-based premium WordPress theme from RocketTheme that updated to v1.2. This theme could be used for game magazine, community, portal website and more. It built with awesome Gantry Framework and comes with 6 style options, 18 background combinations, 3 custom widgets and more.

• Gantry Framework — Gantry is a framework used for assembling, building and maintaining a RocketTheme template. It is an advanced platform for dramatically extending the capabilities of the entire theming system of WordPress.
• 6 Style Variations
• 18 Background Combinations
• RT Plugins Styling
• Custom Typography
• Javascript Form Styling
• Fusion Menu
• 3 Widget Variations
• Over 60 Widget Positions
• Fully translatable
• IE6 Warning Message
• FF3.5, Opera 10, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid

Price
RocketTheme WordPress Theme Club Subscription $50 – $250

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ecoZine is an e-zine premium WordPress theme from iDesigneEco that perfectly suited for gaming / entertainment blogs. This theme bundled with a lots of social features and you can create a slick slideshow and a breaking news ticker for your content.

Features

• Backend Administration Panel – customize various aspects of the theme
• Post Thumbnails
• Dynamic Image Resizing
• WP 3.0+ Navigation Menu System
• Super Fast and Lightweight
• Custom Widgets
• Dynamic Sidebar and Footer
• Popular Browser Compatibility

Price
Single Theme: $25
iDesiegnEco Membership Packages: $9.99 – $29 per month

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Arcade is dark and sleek premium WordPress theme from Obox Design that with a solid retro vibe that’s designed for r gamers, Sci-Fi fans for movie bloggers,and new custom sections are easy to add.

Features

• Custom Logo Input packaged with multiple pages templates including Archives, Full Width and a Portfolio page.
• Organize your Menu Structure for super smooth visitor navigation.
• Advert Management
• Ajax Comments
• Automatic Image Resizing
• Cross Browser Compatible
• Search Engine Friendly
• Analytics Install
• Unique gallery section
• Feature slider

Price:
Single: $50
Super Standard: $70
Developer: $100

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Black Aperture is an all-in-one news and reviews premium WordPress theme from ThemeForest with dark and sleek style that specifically designed for video games. This theme includes a theme admin control panel that can convert theme column layout, dynamic image resizing, custom widgets and more.

Features

• Unique featured posts showcase requires minimal effort to take advantage of.
• Dynamic image resizing for various thumbnails used through-out the theme. Upload once, and see the image used all over in different sizes and aspect ratios.
• Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates. Change the accent colour used in the nav and headings using a colour picker, switch from 3 columns to 2 by selecting a checkbox, construct the main navigation bar, and even manage ads.
• Default 3 column layout can be changed to 2 (removes left sidebar) from WP-Admin.
• Both sidebars are widgetized.
• Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots, along with a recent posts list.
• Change the logo to plain text (which makes use of the Blog Title and Tagline settings) or replace it with your own image without touching any code.
• Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
• Tested on Windows and Mac – IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
• Support for WP-PageNavi and Subscribe to Comments plugins out of the box.

Price: $32

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CoolWPA is a professional premium WordPress theme from WPArcade designed for those who want to build game or entertainment website.This theme works with the WPArcade Plugin,and so you can automatically from over 2000 games. It comes with 5 color styles, 6 category blocks, integrated user panel with avatar, options and favorite games and more.

General Theme Features

• WordPress 3.0 + Compatible
• Easy-to-use Theme Options Page
• Ads System: 728×90, 336×280, 300×250
• Stats, analytics block from Themes Options
• Support for Threaded Comments
• Widgetized Sidebars (Front, Game, Category, Page, Search)
• Support for Author Pages
• Compatible with all modern browsers
• Dynamic image resizing for thumbnails (TimThumb)
• 100% Tableless Design

Unique Theme Features

• 5 Color Styles(Brown, Red, Pink, Green, Blue)
• Sliding Featured Games Panel
• 6 Category Blocks easy to add from Theme Options
• Subcategories Menu
• Integrated Social Sharing Buttons
• Login and Log Out Box
• 336×280 Ads Before game loading with timer from Theme Options
• Integrated User Panel with Avatar, Options and Favorite Games
• Drop Down all games list in footer
• Logo change from Theme Settings
• Background change from Theme Settings
• Custom CSS change from Theme Settings
• Banner Exchange change from Theme Settings
• Hand Picked Games from Theme Settings
• Jumplist Games Amount from Theme Settings
• Text after Category from Theme Settings
• CoolWPA comes packaged with a .po file for easy WordPress theme translations into your desired language – editing one neat little file without hunting down text in all our theme templates.
• In 24h you will have a READY TO USE ARCADE SITE with over 2000 GAMES and automatic updating ! (Read More)

Price: $49

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GameNow is a clean premium WordPress theme from WPnow that can be used as Magazine/Multimedia/Personal ,etc.The theme includes 2 Color Schemes,Menu & Submenu ‘Show’/'Don’t Show’ Customization, Stylish Blockquotes & Nested Blockquotes and so on.

Features

• WP 2.9+ Ready
• SEO-Friendly Title Tagging & Meta Tagging Built-In
• Two-Column Layout
• Widget Ready
• Theme Options Panel
• 2 Color Schemes – Set One or Let Your Users Choose
• Menu & Submenu ‘Show’/'Don’t Show’ Customization
• Adsense Ready
• Javascript Animated Slideshow
• 3 Highlights Categories
• Top Articles List Based on Comment Count
• “Similar Posts” Aggregated on Post Pages
• Threaded Comments
• 5 Star User Review System
• Optional “No Sidebars” Template
• Sitemap Template
• Five Level Threaded Comments
• Stylish Blockquotes & Nested Blockquotes

Price:
Basic Theme Package: $49
Developer Theme Package: $79
Standard Themes Club Membership: $99
Developer Themes Club Membership: $149

Buy 1 get 2 FREE on basic theme packages, Buy 1 get 3 FREE on all developer theme packages!

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NextWPA V2 is a new level premium WordPress theme from WPArcade that has 6 color-schemes.This theme also works with the WPArcade Plugin,and so you can automatically from over 20000 games (MochiMedia) or add one by one using a very easy panel.

NextWPA V2 Unique Features

• Thumbnails fix
• Added submenu for subcategories
• Footer All Games fix
• Game Page thumbnail
• Added 5 Styles
• Ads fixed
• Front page 3 blocks more added

Price: $29

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BasicWPA is a nice premium WordPress theme from WPArcade with many features and one cool design.This theme also works with the WPArcade Plugin,and so you can automatically from over 20000 games (MochiMedia) or add one by one using a very easy panel.

Features

• Front Page (with featured games, and configurable 6 category blocks from theme settings)
• Single Game Page (with description, instructions, 728×90 ads, similar games, tags and others…)
• Category Page,Search Games Page
• Sidebar Widgets (configurable from appearance widgets)
• Author’s Page (with information about authors)
• Hide And Show All Games in footer
• Menu (categories, integrated with subcategories)

Price: $29

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