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Game Sites\News\Industry insights?

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  • 12-04-2011 4:17pm
    #1
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭


    Was just wondering would anyone have any suggestions on what are your go-to sites for general gaming and industry news?

    Mine are (RSS feeds)

    Kotaku.
    Destructoid.

    And Games TM magazine.

    Any others?

    Cheers

    PS: If this has been done before, my apologies!


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    #2
    krudler
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    thegamingliberty has a facebook page and twitter as well, handy for news


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    sink
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    I usually read Game Informer for multi-platform news and Rock, Paper, Shotgun for PC focused news.


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    Retr0gamer
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    For japanese industry news then the WAHP podcast on www.wahp.jp is the best place to go.

    Other than what has been mentioned I like 1up.com and their podcasts, particularly retronauts.
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    GothPunk
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    gamesindustry.biz is good for interviews with industry types and some more 'behind the scenes' type coverage. Sometimes MCVuk.com is good.

    For general stuff I love Joystiq. Their podcast is really good too, pretty funny although a little bit polemic at times.


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    Hercule
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Hercule


    cvg.co.uk is ususally prompt and the first with relevant news - they do post a lot of pap on slow-days tho - they also have a habit of giving their articles really provocative titles when they might just contain walls of text/old news


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    Mr E
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    No Eurogamer love? They do a lot of updates a day (new stuff on RSS feed every time I look) and their podcast is really good these days.


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    DaveTwenty7
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭DaveTwenty7


    I like the shacknews podcast and generally use a combination of 1up, eurogamer, kotaku and ntsc-uk


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    gizmo
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    Gamasutra is great for general industry news.

    Destructoid contains Jim Sterling and can therefore foad. :)


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    Retr0gamer
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    Mr E wrote: »
    No Eurogamer love? They do a lot of updates a day (new stuff on RSS feed every time I look) and their podcast is really good these days.

    Good articles and sometimes reviews but their news is usually terrible.
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    Grumpypants
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    Generally the majority of sites just re word the press releases they get from PR. Little or no "news" on any of them.


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    Sephiroth_dude
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    sink wrote: »
    I usually read Game Informer for multi-platform news and Rock, Paper, Shotgun for PC focused news.

    I like gameinformer alot :)


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    #13
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Hey guys thanks a mil for all the links. I'm just trying to approach gaming not just as a hobby but as something a little more serious. (Why so srs?).

    I'm looking to read up and understand the concept\design\publishing aspects a bit more and those sites will help a lot.


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    megaten
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    Mostly read siliconera for Japanese news. Still go to destructoid but they don't have as many good features or writers as they used too. That might change with Chad Concelmo being the new features editor though. The podcast RetroforceGo! that they used to run was a real gem. The links are in the sites forum and still worth a listen too.


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    Zero-Cool
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    The Gaming Liberty (Irish) are doing a great job. They always have the latest news on facebook and have some great interviews. Them and CVG are the best gaming news sites at the moment. Kotaku is gone to shiit with that new web design. Also Bone-Idle are another good Irish gaming news website who have a sister site gameswap.ie to swap your old games instead of trading them in shops.

    But Gametrailers is the one I go for when I need a definitive review.


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    Helix
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    none of the above

    gamepolitics.com
    gamespress.com
    gamesindustry.biz

    pretty much where all the other stories come from

    then there's our own, which we've just gone live with and are going to be ramping up in the coming weeks, http://www.clickonline.com


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    Zero-Cool
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    Helix wrote: »
    then there's our own, which we've just gone live with and are going to be ramping up in the coming weeks, http://www.clickonline.com

    Very nice lads! I liked the LA Noire preview!


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    #18
    Kazuma
    Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Kazuma


    Nobody mentioned neoGAF? I usually stumble across news on there before it shows up in most of the other sites. (as a plus it's also pretty funny - for example the Dragon Age II Official Thread - Revenge of Sh1t Mountain.)

    Downside is that sometimes total crap gets posted, but it's usually slammed as a rumour pretty quickly.


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