Attack of the Fanboy was founded in March 2010 as an independent video game news and reviews site, and grew into one of the larger independent gaming publications before being acquired by GAMURS Group in 2022. GAMURS is an Australian digital publisher co-founded in 2014 by Riad Chikhani, headquartered in Sydney with an office in Austin, Texas, which operates a network of gaming, esports and entertainment titles including Dot Esports, Destructoid, Twinfinite, Prima Games, Siliconera, We Got This Covered and The Mary Sue. The site is funded by programmatic advertising, direct sales, affiliate commissions and commercial campaigns. Today, Attack of the Fanboy is mainly focused on video game news, reviews, guides and codes, alongside anime, movies and television, and more recently a politics section and a viral social media section covering US national politics, crime and human interest stories, from their parent company's headquarters in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. One interesting fact: the site originally scrapped numerical review scores in favour of an emotional scale running from Loved to Hated, and now runs a dual system giving each game both a five-star rating and a subjective emotional verdict.