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MisterChief @lemmy.world

Where do you get your gaming news?

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'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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Gaming magazines in the mid to late 90’s then XPlay way before G4 became a piece of sh*t.

    Edit: I miss read and thought you said “where DID you…”

    Now a days I get my gaming news from my favorite streamers on YouTube or Twitch.

  • Surprising, the Google homepage on Android (swipe right) seems to have some pretty decent news recently. I'm unsure if that's because after a decade and a half all the data I've given them finally has yielded actually good results or if they've changed the way it works.

  • I went a bit different route to get info about the games I play the most. I realized that most of them have an official discord with announcement channels that have all the updates. So in one of my discord servers I created a game feed category and a channel for each game. Then subscribed each game channel to the matching announcement channels from the official servers. It has worked really great for quickly seeing what’s going on with each game.  It actually ended up working so well that I ended up doing the same thing for RSS feeds for things outside of gaming too. Now I just check my Info Hub to see what’s new.

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