The Gamer's Quarter

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

i just realized that i've been relying on word of mouth to hear things about video games, and don't really know of any quality gaming resources/blogs/aggregators/etc! please post your usuals!

i used to check the insert credit front page every so often, but it's pretty much dominated by obscure import fighting games and shooters i'll never play. gamesetwatch is rather good, though! and every couple of months i'll think about looking at slashdot games, then remember why i don't keep checking that one. other that than i'm in the dark. how's 1up? i could never get that one to load without waiting for a long, long time.

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

or, you know, not necessarily just "this game is coming out this day!" type stuff, but places with more in-depth looks at gaming, like that gaming quarters one or whatever it's called

extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

I get most of mine from tigsource.com for the free, cheap and casual games I play mainly, and rely on selectbutton's forums for console type gaming news. since I don't have a high end system most PC gaming news sources are moot for me.

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

General TGQ/SB activity, the select button news thread, gamespot reviews page, tigsource/indygamer/gsw/gamasutra, gamerankings new release page. In about that order.

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:43 am Post subject:

I have PALGN, Computerandvideogames and a couple other sites live bookmarked, and just check those. Usually I bookmark the developer sites themselves if stuff they make is generally good. I have an RSS feed for mods I'm watching as well (Mmm, hurry up and finish Black Mesa Source already).
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SuperWes · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:47 am Post subject:

I go to these places (probably in this order):

http://www.kotaku.com
http://www.joystiq.com
http://blog.wired.com/games/
http://games.ign.com/
http://www.gamespite.net/
http://www.insertcredit.com/
http://www.selectbutton.net/
http://www.gamespot.com/news/
http://www.ncsx.com/
http://www.the-magicbox.com/
http://www.davidjaffe.biz/

And I tend not to really pay too much attention to the news threads on forums since the sites have pretty much everything covered.

-Wes

EDIT: Yeah, it's a little late to clarify, but I'm going to anyway. Many of these sites aren't really worth reading outside of their news, but news doesn't have to be well-written to be informative.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I don't!
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a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

yahoo! thanks for the links, wes

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

If you're brave all you have to do is sit around on neoGAF and hit refresh. You'll have more news, and worse opinions, than you know what to do with.
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silentmatt · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:35 am Post subject:

I almost exclusively rely on gamerevolution.com but they aren't really the most up-to-date group of people. but they try.

other than that - its mostly from reading forums and such. but i do like GRs style of reviews, for sure.
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Pijaibros · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:43 am Post subject:

I just rely on the news threads on selectbutton for general gaming news. Obviously, if it's not there, it's not worth caring about.

I also have a bunch of free subscriptions to game magazines (EGM, Game Informer, etc...) so if there's anything that slips through the crack of the internet hive collective, I can find it in a magazine while on the can.

dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:40 am Post subject:

i'm pretty much strictly word of mouth. if a new bioshock vid comes out or whatever, someone usually lets me know eventually. i get some stuff from kieron gillen's blog since we have some taste overlap.

information on older games comes almost entirely from message boards. 1up and ign's pc sections tend to be anemic.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Word of mouth. tigsource and gamesetwatch for free/obscure stuff. Gamerankings if I'm just really curious what's come out recently.

The problem is that word of mouth isn't usually hateful enough, at least right off.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:59 am Post subject:

that's why you must cultivate the hatefulness inside, grasshopper.
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Toto · 4th Man Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 122

PALGN, Aussie-Nintendo, TGQ/SB.

Mister Toups · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:20 am Post subject:

This might be a good place to ask this: since so many people seem to rely on forums like these and SB for news, do you think it would be worth it for me to do weekly frontpage posts where I pick highlights from the news thread and elsewhere on the forum which point out interesting news that might not have been covered on larger sites?
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:23 am Post subject:

i get all my news from the gamer's quarter magazine.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:34 am Post subject:

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I would think splitting posts from the news thread wouldn't be too hard if you have enough moderators. How often does a news story get posted there big enough to not already have it's own thread. For the first six months of reading IC I never once clicked on the news thread and I don't believe I missed too much.
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