I was wondering where everyone went to get news, reviews, trailers, etc. IGN has always left a bad taste in my mouth with their seemingly bias reviews. I used to go to the gaming, games, Xbox, and a couple other smaller niche subreddits to gather the vast majority of the info. Now I’d like some advice on what others favorite sites are. Bonus points if it has an app. Thanks!
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Reddit was my go-to. I hope gaming communities on Lemmy will grow.
I use to browse Reddit subs… Now I hope Lemmy fills this hole.
Yeah, like most people in this thread I use RSS:
- Blue’s News
- Frontline
- Eurogamer
- Game Developer
- Games Industry
- Gaming on Linux
- Gematsu
- Noisy Pixel
- RetroRGB
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun
- Terry’s Free Game of the Week
- Time Extension
- Video Games Chronicle
- Warp Door
There’s also YouTube channels like ManlyBadassHero, SplatterCatGaming and AlphaBetaGamer that are great at showcasing more niche games.
Skill up has a weekly show about what’s coming up, what’s come out, and a bunch of indie games. He’s on break for a month at the moment, but it’s good content and has got me to buy a few good games.
Game linked is another channel from Linus Tech Tips that is focused on gaming and I have faith they do their research properly.
Gameranx is also quite good.
All of these are YouTube channels.
Skill Up is a good one. Digital Foundry also has a weekly show that covers news, which I find is well done.
RSS and different websites. The fastest, greatest way. Stops you from joining the possible drama by commenting as well :D
YouTube, mostly
Various channels and whatever the algorithm feeds me
For general gaming news, I go with Jeff Gerstmann and the Nextlander guys. For more technically focused stuff, it’s hard to beat Digital Foundry and their methodology of focusing on the user experience over benchmark numbers. I think all of those folks have been around long enough to be above chasing the hype cycle for traffic and they all have context from decades of being in the industry. Rich from DF started working in games media in 1990 and Jeff started working at Gamespot in 1996. It’s hard to find other folks who have been in the industry that long and still working in games coverage.
I use Goodnews to read RSS feeds from Destructoid, Eurogamer, GamesIndustry, Gematsu, Nintendo Life, PC Gamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, RPG Site, The Jimquisition, VG247, and Xbox Wire.
You can also create an RSS feed from any subreddit by adding .rss to the URL. I check r/games from feeder a few times a week just to see the top news stories.
Jesse does (mostly daily) 5 minute gaming news. The news that may or may not be 5 mines.
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Ars does fantastic work. Their coverage of space and rocketry especially. Just watch out for the wired articles that get crossposted. Many of those are just not good
I like Ars. For videos/reviews I personally like Skillup, ACG, and Eurogamer mostly, also digital foundry. Plus the official channels for the various consoles.
