If you are looking to start your gaming portal, you should give themes a serious consideration:

eGamer: eGamer is a cool dark theme to set up a professional looking gaming website fast. You can easily add games, your images and videos and rate games. It’s very dynamic and easy to get a handle of.

GameMaker: another impressive dark theme for gaming portals that lets you add your own videos, manage your shoutbox, and add your content easily.

On Demand: a highly flexible and dynamic theme for WordPress that lets you review and rate games and let others rate them as well. You can also feature the popular games on your home page.

Viva 7: Viva 7 is one of the smartest WordPress themes ever made. It’s very dynamic, and it save you a lot of time as you can set up your portal up and running fast.

Black Aperture: a good looking dark theme for gamers. If you want to create your own gaming site and are interested in a dark theme, Black Aperture is a good on to try.

Arras Theme for Gamers: meet the gaming edition of Arras. It’s designed specifically for those interested in building a huge gaming portal. It’s very easy to set up and customize.

Video Elements: a great theme that makes it so easy to add your games, images, videos, and so on to your gaming portal. I am currently using this theme for 3 of my portals (not about gaming). It’s a very flexible theme.

GamePress: a very simple yet customizable theme for your gaming website. Lets you easily add your images, load up your information, and create a dynamic gaming site fast.

VideoFlick: another great theme that you can easily adopt for your gaming portal. If you have video reviews on your gaming website, you are going to want try this theme.

WP-Smooth: WP Smooth may not have been designed specifically for gaming sites, but it designed for portals, which means you can upload your images, add your content, and you are ready to go. Easy to customize and very flexible.

There you have it. 10 cool WordPress themes for gaming portals. If you have decided to use WordPress as your gaming CMS, you are going to want to use one of these themes.

Your take: what’s your favorite game theme for WordPress?

WordPress community has created all kinds of WordPress themes for all kinds of websites. What we haven’t seen a lot are gaming themes. Gaming is highly popular among the younger generation, which means if you start your own unique gaming site these days, there is no reason you can’t earn a very good money online. ARRAS is a highly sophisticated gaming theme that makes it easy to create a gaming WordPress website fast.

ARRAS is a dark theme that should go easy on the eyes of gamers. It is highly sophisticated and has that premium look to it. You can also use this theme to create your own rating portal. You get 3 different layouts, a scoreboard for your reviews, and supp0rt for WordPress 2.7. Best of all, the theme is social media ready and allows your users to print your blog posts.

ARRAS’ back-end is highly flexible too. You can choose from 2 different styles and 3 different layouts available. You can easily add your Google Analytics code and customize your RSS feed. You can change the logo easily as well. And if there is an update to the theme, you’ll be notified automatically.

Overall, ARRAS is a great theme for those who want to start their gaming WordPress website. The sky is the limit with this theme. You can create a video-game review website or an accessory portal for gamers. Either way, if you play your cards right, you can gain a lot of visitors and earn a lot of money. ARRAS is a very affordable way to get started with your own gaming site today.

Download ARRAS here.

Creating a gaming site used to be too tough before. Sure. You can pay someone to write you a website that is attractive, but I rather not waite for someone to do it for me (and obviously charge me $1000 or more for it). Well. The good folks at Elegant Themes have released a super new theme that takes care of the whole problem.

eGamer comes with a right color contract (I would say) for a gaming website. You get the standard “recent game reviews” section in the sidebar that has a star-system ranking well-integrated in it. Like all Elegant Themes, eGamer is compatible with Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE 6 & 7.

What I like about eGamer is the fact that you get the Photoshop files for the theme as well. In essence, you can change the logo if you know Photoshop, which is something you’d have to do from scratch with other themes. I also like the fact that you can play with the footer and remove the copyright if you like. Not that I recommend it, but some themes have annoyingly long copyright notices, and that turns me off.

Overall, the theme looks fit for a gaming, or even a wrestling site. The featured article section is optional but great for promoting the best your site has to offer. I also like the fact that you get all the updates for this theme and a bunch of others for only about $20 a year. That’s way too cheap to ignore. Good luck with your WordPress gaming site.