GameBrain – Game Review Blocks, Scores & Video Game Info

GameBrain adds video game blocks to WordPress: a game info card, a review score summary, a similar-games row and a where-to-buy price list, backed by a game database of over 800,000 titles. Content is rendered on the server, so it is real, crawlable HTML in your page — with schema.org markup that makes your game reviews eligible for rich results in search — and it inherits your theme's fonts and colors instead of looking like an embedded ad. Four blocks are included:

• Game Card — a compact fact card: cover, GameBrain Score, release date, genres and platforms.
• Review Summary — GameBrain, critic and user scores, plus what players like and dislike.
• Similar Games — a scrollable row of related titles, each with a score badge and platforms.
• Where to Buy — current store offers with prices and store logos.

Why GameBrain

• SEO-ready — everything is server-rendered HTML with schema.org markup (VideoGame, Offer, ItemList), so your game reviews can qualify for rich results instead of shipping empty JavaScript embeds.
• Fast — game data is cached on your site and refreshed in the background; rendering never waits on a network request.
• No API key — one click connects your site; there is nothing to copy, paste or configure.
• Private — no data about your visitors is ever sent to GameBrain.

Each block can also be added outside the block editor with a shortcode or the classic widget, so it works in the Classic editor, page builders and text widgets: [gamebrain_game id="slug-or-id" block="card|review|similar|buy"] Appearance is configurable site-wide (accent color, score-band colors, corner radius, density, surface style, max width) and per block — without editing plugin files. Advanced users can also override the documented --gb-* CSS variables and BEM classes from Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS or a child theme. Full documentation with screenshots of every block: https://gamebrain.co/api/docs/gamebrain-for-wordpress External service notice. This plugin connects to GameBrain (https://gamebrain.co), an external service, to retrieve game data. Connecting from Settings → GameBrain creates a free, site-scoped account; your site URL and admin email are sent to GameBrain at that point. Your admin email is stored by GameBrain as the account owner. Game data is fetched server-side and cached on your site. No data about your visitors is sent to GameBrain. Disconnecting or uninstalling the plugin requests deletion of your GameBrain account, including the stored email.

• Terms of Service: https://gamebrain.co/wordpress-plugin-terms
• Privacy Policy: https://gamebrain.co/wordpress-plugin-privacy

Attribution is optional. A small "View on GameBrain" credit link can be shown on each block. It is off by default — turn it on from Settings → GameBrain → Connection if you'd like to support GameBrain. Every block works exactly the same whether it's on or off. Affiliate disclosure. Store / "Where to buy" links may be affiliate links. Where shown, they are marked on the page.

1.0.0

• Initial public release.
• Four blocks: Game Card, Review Summary, Similar Games, Where to Buy.
• Server-side rendering with schema.org markup for SEO.
• Cache-first fetching with background refresh, so rendering never blocks the page.
• Shortcode and classic widget fallbacks for the Classic editor, page builders and text widgets.
• Admin settings: connection, Appearance theming and per-block controls.
• Optional "View on GameBrain" attribution link, off by default.