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!
Came here to post this. The Reuters of gaming news since… forever. It’s incredible how they’re still around; I remember using them in like 2001.
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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).
The Polygon RSS feed
Mortismal Gaming on Youtube and PC Gamer.
Between Mandalore Gaming, Civvie11, Gmanlives, and JarekTheGamingDragon I feel like most things interesting to me will filter in. Otherwise my Steam page knows me pretty well, so if I see something interesting looking I’ll read user reviews and go find some raw gameplay footage.
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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Reddit was my go-to. I hope gaming communities on Lemmy will grow.
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.
YouTube, mostly
Various channels and whatever the algorithm feeds me
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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.
A few youtubers make gaming news videos…
Acg, skill up, and then i follow a few youtubers who put up lets plays of various less covered genres, like strategy games, and indie games.
I’m broke. I try not to get news so I don’t have any desire to spend money.
I use to browse Reddit subs… Now I hope Lemmy fills this hole.
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.
