# GamesIndustry.biz (غيمز إندستري بيز)

> GamesIndustry.biz is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-08-09.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [Ziff Davis](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/ziff-davis.md)
- Categories: News & Media
- Official site: https://www.gamesindustry.biz
- Community votes: 4
- Last updated: 2026-08-09
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/gamesindustry-biz

## About

Trade publication covering the business of video games, including industry news, market analysis, job listings, and developer interviews

## Activity summary

Reported blocked in Syria in August 2026, when a community petition named the site among the parent company's properties returning HTTP 403 responses to Syrian traffic at the CDN layer. The same email asked the company and Gamer Network to remove the country level geofence, which is the first and only outreach so far. The block has not yet been confirmed by testing from inside Syria.

## Community reports

- 2026-08-06 — Contacted Company. A community volunteer sent a detailed compliance petition to Ziff Davis at legal@ziffdavis.com, dpo@ziffdavis.com and privacy@ziffdavis.com, copying Gamer Network at contact@eurogamer.net, and named gamesindustry.biz among the properties blocked for Syria. The email documented that requests from Syrian IP addresses are dropped at the content delivery network or web application firewall layer with an HTTP 403 Forbidden response, set out the 2025 US, EU, UK and multilateral sanctions changes, and noted that Gamer Network Limited is registered in the United Kingdom and therefore bound by the updated OFSI framework. This is the first outreach on GamesIndustry.biz.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/gamesindustry-biz?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/gamesindustry-biz/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/gamesindustry-biz
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/gamesindustry-biz.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/gamesindustry-biz.md