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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I use to browse Reddit subs… Now I hope Lemmy fills this hole.
Reddit was my go-to. I hope gaming communities on Lemmy will grow.
Usually The Verge or Ars Technica. They’re not dedicated gaming sites by any means, but they cover enough for me. If I want to see gameplay, I watch IGN reviews, but I take their commentary with a grain of salt.
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
I use RSS feeds from these sites:
- https://www.dsogaming.com
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com
- https://nichegamer.com
- https://techraptor.net
- https://www.siliconera.com
If a specific game has a blog I’ll also add it to that category. Sadly, not many gaming sites support RSS anymore, but this collection has good coverage imo.
along these lines, here’s one that specializes in Japanese games and supports rss by category for large and small developers: https://themakoreactor.com/
and another indie one for JP stuff that maintains RSS: https://noisypixel.net/
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I’m the lead mod over on !ps5@lemmy.ml and I am also a mod on !nintendo@lemmy.world
I use an RSS reader app/website plugged into all the various news sites for gaming on all consoles and PC that a browse a few times a day. I post a lot of the news I like to the communities I mod. If you’re looking for an app, I recommend an RSS reader (there are a lot to choose from so I would dabble in a few and see what you like).
If you’re looking for gaming centric communities you probably already know where to find them on here, but resetera has good discussions as well. If you want to look for other communities across lemmy instances you can use https://lemmyverse.net/communities (be sure to set your home instance with the “home” icon so all links open correctly).
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.
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.
I’m broke. I try not to get news so I don’t have any desire to spend money.
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.
If you are a penguin I would recommend GamingOnLinux. I think it is more or less a one man operation, however contrasting to IGN and the likes I also think that is a good thing.
Gamelinked, Inside Gaming, my Google Discover feed (it’s actually gotten a lot better as of late of providing me with gaming news), and places like this mostly.
Skill up
Mortismal Gaming on Youtube and PC Gamer.
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 Cox on YouTube has been doing a “5 Minute Gaming News” show, where he basically goes over the daily gaming news. From there, it’s usually easy enough to find articles about it. He also covers new releases on mondays, with trailer highlights and stuff. It’s pretty neat.
