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!
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 listen to a couple of gaming podcasts for news. Mainly the podcasts by Last Stand Media. They do a PlayStation one called Sacred Symbols, an Xbox one called Defining Duke and a Nintendo one called Punching Up. I enjoy all of the quite a bit.
They’re all free to listen to, so you can check them out to see if you’re into them.
Remap Radio is pretty awesome. They’re the same Waypoint Radio team from Vice. Currently podcast-only (no written articles for now) after being laid off from Vice, but they’re fully independent now, and as excellent as ever! They know their shit.
Yeah I know what you mean. Their style of banter and humor can be jarring, it took me a bit to get used to their way of talking about things. But once you get to know their personalities they become seriously endearing. Big fan of the whole crew now.
Pessimism is another story though. While I can totally see how you might see/hear them that way, I interpret it more as realism than pessimism. They know their industry in and out, so they’re not shy about telling it how it is.
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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.
GameLinked, ACG, Pcgaming discord
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.
Bill O’Reilly.
Word of mouth
95% Twitter (many gaming-centric accounts) and YouTube (mostly skill up and now GameLinked too!) And 5% from Lemmy (Reddit before that)
I’m broke. I try not to get news so I don’t have any desire to spend money.
I listen to a couple of gaming podcasts for news. Mainly the podcasts by Last Stand Media. They do a PlayStation one called Sacred Symbols, an Xbox one called Defining Duke and a Nintendo one called Punching Up. I enjoy all of the quite a bit.
They’re all free to listen to, so you can check them out to see if you’re into them.
Remap Radio is pretty awesome. They’re the same Waypoint Radio team from Vice. Currently podcast-only (no written articles for now) after being laid off from Vice, but they’re fully independent now, and as excellent as ever! They know their shit.
They all seem a bit mean and pessimistic on the couple videos of theirs I’ve watched
Yeah I know what you mean. Their style of banter and humor can be jarring, it took me a bit to get used to their way of talking about things. But once you get to know their personalities they become seriously endearing. Big fan of the whole crew now.
Pessimism is another story though. While I can totally see how you might see/hear them that way, I interpret it more as realism than pessimism. They know their industry in and out, so they’re not shy about telling it how it is.
bluesnews.com
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.
Reddit was my go-to. I hope gaming communities on Lemmy will grow.
Yeah, like most people in this thread I use RSS:
There’s also YouTube channels like ManlyBadassHero, SplatterCatGaming and AlphaBetaGamer that are great at showcasing more niche games.
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
https://youtube.com/@jessecox
Jesse does (mostly daily) 5 minute gaming news. The news that may or may not be 5 mines.