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!
Reddit was my go-to. I hope gaming communities on Lemmy will grow.
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.
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 to browse Reddit subs… Now I hope Lemmy fills this hole.
YouTube, mostly
Various channels and whatever the algorithm feeds me
Jesse does (mostly daily) 5 minute gaming news. The news that may or may not be 5 mines.
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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.
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
