Games News and Gaming News

[toblix]

I used to visit Shacknews pretty regularly, but after their redesign it's become annoying and hard to read. Also, there's Kotaku, but they seem more about everything related to games or pervy Japanese figurines. What sites/feeds do you regularly visit/follow to keep up with news about video games?

[Hermie]

My own?

I usually pick news from vg247, since they post EVERYTHING, and Rock Paper Shotgun for PC news.

[Sno]

We're just talking up to date rumor mongering and news?

Joystiq and Kotaku are the big ones, i guess. Just for the sheer breadth of content they post.

RPS is where i go to stay up to speed on the PC scene.

I've always liked Siliconera, i don't think they can really be beat if what you want is news on niche games out of Japan, heh.

I unno.

Most of the other sites i read are more for editorial content, or really specialized.

Some of those main sources like Kotaku are such news aggregating monsters that a lot of the other blogs that try to compete in the news game can't really keep up, you have to start looking into really specialized blogs to find anything the big ones haven't touched on, and then it really just depends where your interests lie.

[Raff]

My video game feeds are:

Gamasutra - the big news and some interesting articles

Game Set Watch - loads of cool obscure bits and pieces

Giant Bomb - to get a feel for recent releases

Shacknews - I barely click through to anything but it's the most tolerable general news blog

RPS is great for the most part but I don't really have time to read it on a daily basis, I tend to browse through it on quiet weekends.

Kotaku and VG24/7 are utter sludge. Joystiq is alright if you're really in the mood to follow a story down to the unverified rumour bullshit level, during E3 or something.

[Sno]

Game Set Watch i find more valuable for the editorial content, the bits of news they post are often very esoteric and random. Interesting stuff, to be sure, but i generally haven't really found it very useful for keeping up to date.

Giant Bomb might actually become a very valuable resource though, that crew had stated their intent to step up the news coverage, and they're doing a pretty good job so far.

[Thompson]

I visit Game Rant, IGN, N4G, Techspot and Giant Bomb regularly.

[Orv]

Rock Paper Shotgun

PC Gamer

Massively

I check each about three or four times throughout the day, and that's basically my PC gaming news drip in a bottle. I go to Giant Bomb more for their video content than their news content (TNT, etc).

[lobotomy42]

Joystiq and Eurogamer.

It used be Shacknews and Kotaku, but Kotaku has gotten annoying and Shacknews is near-unusable in its current state.

[Erkki]

RPS for me mostly. Also I sometimes check Eurogamer. And TIGSource.

I don't really need that much game news, it's ok if I don't know about something the minute it happens. For really interesting news, I can wait till someone posts about it here on the Idle Thumbs Forums.

[brkl]

RPS

The Idle Thumbs Podcast :x

[elmuerte]

ITPC&F Extravaganza

RPS 9000

Gam 'a sutra

D'TOID

[Patters]

Shacknews (Latestchatty.x)

RPS

Twitter.

[toblix]

I don't really need that much game news, it's ok if I don't know about something the minute it happens. For really interesting news, I can wait till someone posts about it here on the Idle Thumbs Forums.

I'm the opposite. During E3 and smililar events, you would find me with Schacknews constantly visible on one screen, pushing F5 with regular, robotic intervals.

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!

[Patters]

Shacknews is near-unusable in its current state.

I don't get this simply because this exists: http://www.shacknews.com/news

[Nappi]

I do my news surfing on Google Reader: Kotaku, Joystiq, Shacknews, RPS and now Giantbomb. Shacknews RSS only has short description of the news and no pictures so it's next to useless considering the speed at which I scroll through the feeds.

[toblix]

I don't get this simply because this exists: http://www.shacknews.com/news

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[Thompson]

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[Sno]

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[pabosher]

I visit Game Rant, IGN, N4G, Techspot and Giant Bomb regularly.

hell yeah.

wait, I don't write for that site anymore. screw those guys!

[elmuerte]

would you like to know more?

[Ben X]

As any RPS reader will know, indiegames.com is becoming the go-to place for indie news.

[elmuerte]

who cares about indie games? they're usually cheap

[Squid Division]

Shacknews primarily, RPS, and GiantBomb (I really like the addition of Klepek). How is Read More any different than RPS? I can't stand Kotaku because of the writing and amount of Japanese Porn games I have to sift through. And fuck the entire Gawker network.

[Noyb]

As any RPS reader will know, indiegames.com is becoming the go-to place for indie news.

Shame the comments section isn't any less idiotic than any other site.

Actually, does any gaming site besides RPS actually have intelligent discussion in the comments?

[lobotomy42]

Shame the comments section isn't any less idiotic than any other site.

Actually, does any gaming site besides RPS actually have intelligent discussion in the comments?

I used to read gaming reviews at this one site called...lazy hands? busy fingers? Something like that. Anyway, it's not around anymore, but it had a pretty good forum, as I recall.