Giant Bomb - great coverage, funny, not problematic. wide range of content, amazing chemistry, two awesome podcasts plus game mess mornings
Jeff Grubb - he brought me over to GB. the man. watch him and GB cover SGF and you’ll get it. man is talented and so charismatic. hes also got a couple more pods on his personal channel with known menace Mitch Minotti
∆honestly cant sing praise for these two enough
Noclip - AMAZING docs, great pod with passionate hosts.
Minnmax - just turned onto them recently after GB had some of them on the couch at SGF. good takes, nice people.
used to be really into spawncast and it’s member’s channels. not as much recently. spawnwave is still great but some of the group is overly negative which can be very grating over time. they do have good chemistry, still catch the pod sometimes. - that being said, spawnwave’s 20 min morning news digests aren’t a bad watch while you’re waking up and getting caffenated in the morning
Nate the Hate & MVG - part of the spawncast but they also do their own pod. Mature discussion of news and industry topics. MVG has a long history in the modding scene and is an active dev. Nate is some sort of insider, he protects his identity but i would imagine he’s in the industry. despite the name, he’s not overly negative.
~~there are def a few more but these are the ones that came to mind immediately. might add more as they come to me ~similar kinda thing but about content more geared towards entertainment i.e. dunkey, thorhighheels might be fun to do in the future
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It’s been many years and I’ve found very few outlets that consistently resonate with me.
In terms of review quality, I think the best one is Easy Allies (formed by folks who used to work at GameTrailers). They match video clips with a well-written script and professional narration so perfectly. You can tell they haven’t just thoroughly played the game under review, but they know its history among the genre. But IMO they focus too much on console, where I’m PC-only.
I’m also a Linux gamer now. Gaming On Linux and Boiling Steam are good for that, but I’m open to more.
I don’t really. I don’t keep up with AAA games, most of them don’t interest me. There’s a looooot of games out there and only a fraction of them interest me.
I also don’t really watch YouTubers and stuff in general, I find it hard to watch.
Yeah, I’m not into podcasts and YouTube videos either. Just let me read about my games please
Can’t comment on news, but the friends per second podcast has been my go to
Castle Super Beast has long been my go to gaming and pop culture podcast.
Nextlander - giant bomb made better imo.
Same.
There’s never been a better podcast! (I fell off them at first, but I think that was because the world sucked quite a bit right around when they started, and it leaked into their podcast. They’re pretty great now.)
I stuck with Giant Bomb right up until they canned Jeff Gerstmann. Quickly after that, Giant Bomb just felt icky. That said, I couldn’t hang with Jeff’s solo gig – while he’s still a threat, he sorely needs a co-host(s).
I got into GB a bit after when Gertsmann got canned because i enjoyed Grubb and his takes/personality so much. I realize when an outfit has been going for a while like they have a regime change/ almost total personnel change would feel weird af
now do u say this about current GB or their more well known previous iterations? ive only been into them since their main hosts/people being Jan, Grubb, Bakalar and Ryckert. Tam and Lucy from gamespot are frequent collaborators along with Mike Minotti.
if you’re not familiar with their current crew i suggest giving em another look, they crack me up and bring a ton of personality to the table.
From what I know, nextlander is former GB people. I’ll definitely check it out, i have lots of drive/work/gaming time to consume pods
When I bailed right after JeffG left, there were personalities I liked, and some I did not.
Also, since it was a complete dice roll who’d actually be on a given podcast: some were great; some not so much.
And more often than not, their podcasts were populated by randos not even on the crew.
I listen to the besties and triple click
Remap Radio is basically the only podcast I listen to now
Still looking for good written coverage, though
I still go back and listen through the original Arrow Pointing Down/Giant Bombcast up until Ryan’s passing. The age of the content makes it downright historically interesting now for their commentary on game releases.
The chemistry of those guys (Vinny and Brad included) is still untouchable, no one can rein Jeff in and play off him as well as Ryan did, and Ryan is by far my favorite person to ever grace that website and podcast, and rightfully so as it was his child with Jeff. Rest in peace.
It was gameranx and gaming historian but maybe nothing soon with the way YouTube is trying to kill off 3rd party clients
Jesse Cox has 5 Minute Gaming News that lists news into little bite-sized chunks that I can handle every weekday. Used to love Jesse on the Cooptional and Cox n Crendor podcasts so I like listening to him.
Also every Friday Crendor is featured on the Cren Minute where he talks about whatever he wants and its the most redundant and hilarious thing to me.
And shoutouts to Lyle Wrath’s hilarious Pregame Discharge show where he lays out the news in an extreme and absurd way. Used to be weekly but now kind of forced to be monthly after Destructoid dropped it.
Nice to see Jesse mentioned. I love his entire sphere of friends.
I honestly don’t watch or listen to stuff about gaming. I just read my RSS feeds about upcoming games and pirate them and if I like them, I buy.
Podcast wise: Rebel FM, though after all these years it’s more just to catch up with them than the actual talking points, but always enjoyable.
For deep dives into specific games Cane & Rinse (full disclosure I have met and consider friends some of the guys involved).
For Indie Games, The Sausage Factory by Chris O’Regan, which these days is hosted by Cane And Rinse is a great way to hear directly from the game devs themselves.
I found this recently, it’s not bad: https://www.dsogaming.com/
Minnmax - Some former Game Informer peeps pulled a Nextlander and it’s been great. For anyone checking it out for the first time now, usually Ben Hansen is the host, but he’s away for a time on paternity leave.
ben is back now! minnmax is awesome
I listen to The Besties and Into the Aether, mostly because their tastes align with mine a lot of the time.
