I stopped reading Kotaku, in addition to the data breach, hentai and japanese porn content, horrible site redesign, because of the frequency of spoilers in the headlines and article images before the jump.
I moved to Joystiq for the past few weeks, and realized they're really no better, at least with the last thing.
I don't want to trawl some forum for my news, and liked the daily blog scroll means of digestion, so is there a decent replacement I can go to for that?
Joystiq and Kotaku are pretty much the only games in town if you want comprehensive coverage. I personally find Joystiq to be only about 10% as annoying as Kotaku, but that's me.
The Kotaku redesign was horrible. Only because of that did I start looking at other news sites, and as has been mentioned, none of them are as all encompassing as Kotaku. It's pretty unfortunate that one design decision pushed me from liking it, to hating it. I mean, it always had overly biased reporting, and a healthy ratio of crap to news, but the new site is just horrible.
I'm sure they're getting more ad revenue, but as soon as there's an up and comer that can get what they used to do right, they're going to leave like rats off a sinking ship.
I mean, if you're going to not even bother filtering crap anyway, you might as well just go straight to neoGAF. 99% of the stuff on kotaku is traight off there anyway, and at least there's less random non-game related news.
What would be ideal is to somehow just get on the industry press release mailing list. That's really all the "news" sites are anyways, but with added flash ads and asinine commentary.
Blue's News (lawl it's the 90s baby) for PC news. RPS for tedious puns and a little more in-depth PC coverage, including indie games so I don't have to read the indie games blogs.
Yep. Even with all the shit Kotaku has done and will continue to do they are still probably the best place for all encompassing news. My favorite thing is when they write editorials and act all high brow about video games. It's fucking video games. Also, they can't write for jack shit. At least their latest redesign is somewhat more tolerable than before.
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I don't even know what Brian Ashcroft does 90% of the time he writes something for Kotaku, but it sure as fuck isn't related to video games. Also, although I understand that the death of Osama bin Laden is a Real Big Thing™, that's not under your purview to report.
I knew that I didn't ever want to visit them ever again after the redesign when they decided it'll be a good idea to sell Flash ads that covers up the fucking first entry on the blogroll for like ten seconds. Fuck that shit.
I stream Destructoid for major news, but prefer more independent player review blogs like Silicon Sasquatch, Gamer Melodico, etc for smart and interesting video game conversations.
I'm super lazy and just look at http://www.gametab.com sometimes to see what the top headlines across aggregated sites are. I used to like 1up.com a lot but don't visit it regularly these days. Wired's Game|Life is a great column to bookmark.
I'd stick with Joystiq. You're just seeing what you've expected to see from horrible, horrible Kotaku. Give it a bit longer and it'll staedy out. I did the exact same thing.
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I read The Escapist quite a bit, they post some esoteric stuff along with the regular 'big news' items.
I echo the statement that forums are probably the first place I check for any news because people will most likely be checking it and linking to relevant articles, though you may have to dig a little.
I too stopped checking Kotaku's website. I still get their tweets which send out the "big stories".
I love Giant Bomb (member) and Patrick's stories are good but no where near comprehensive. That's pretty much their mission statement.
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I pretty much get most of my game news links from Twitter of all places (when it's not fail whaling like right now). Industry people generally post links to the hot articles and don't have to wade through all the websites crap. I think there is going to be a big shakeup before the end of the year with Kotaku losing half its readership over redesign, Joystiq and its affiliated websites in limbo with the AOL merger with HuffPo, and website(s) that keep on sucking, IGN/UGO/1up. Hopefully the decent writers that are left from those sites leave and create new ones like Giant Bomb did.
I stopped reading Kotaku, in addition to the data breach, hentai and japanese porn content, horrible site redesign, because of the frequency of spoilers in the headlines and article images before the jump.
I moved to Joystiq for the past few weeks, and realized they're really no better, at least with the last thing.
I don't want to trawl some forum for my news, and liked the daily blog scroll means of digestion, so is there a decent replacement I can go to for that?
1up is pretty decent and has a lot of game coverage. I started going there after IGN got waaaay to overcrowded and commercial.
I like Giant Bomb for console and general gaming news and PC Gamer for PC news.
But that's if I feel like it after listening to a few weekly podcasts: Giant Bombcast, PC Gamer Podcast, 8-4 Play, and Player One Podcast. These podcasts cover the news pretty well and it's fun to listen to their news segments for basically all your gaming news.
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I've been using that too since the redesign, because I was never really able to find anyplace better to go than the gawker network, as much as I dislike some of the things that have happened there in the last six months. But has anyone else who's been using the uk. or ca. addresses had the issue where occasionally the front page is filled with posts from like, January? I swear I've seen the post about sneaking guns through TSA checkpoints at airports on Lifehacker like, fifty times now.
Also, on an unrelated note, hello PAForums. First post.
I use Google Reader to aggregate a bunch of feeds and combine that with the Penny Arcade Forums to get my fill of coverage.
I read:
Joystiq - I've been reading this site for years and I still really like the core team of Christopher Grant, Justin McElroy and Ludwig Klietzmann, though I find myself disagreeing with them sometimes.
GamesIndustry.biz/IndustryGamers/Eurogamer
Gamasutra (Features, News, Expert Blogs)
Rock Paper Shotgun
MCV
GiantBomb
Worlds in Motion
Obviously I don't read all the stories I see on my feed but I don't think I miss much either. Google Reader also gives you additional options regarding what you want to see on the feed. I use a Chrome extension that let's me prefetch the entire article instead of just a small preview.
I read The Escapist quite a bit, they post some esoteric stuff along with the regular 'big news' items.
The Escapist drives me up a fucking wall. It tries to present itself as some kind of artsy high-brow news magazine, but it's really just Kotaku with a better art director. Its original articles are usually extremely poorly-researched, its reviews frequently smack of payola and repurposed press releases, and you can't throw a rock at its forums without hitting a member of their power-trippy moderation staff.
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Rock paper shotgun is great, but they don't get a lot of the console centric news
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I'm sure they're getting more ad revenue, but as soon as there's an up and comer that can get what they used to do right, they're going to leave like rats off a sinking ship.
I knew that I didn't ever want to visit them ever again after the redesign when they decided it'll be a good idea to sell Flash ads that covers up the fucking first entry on the blogroll for like ten seconds. Fuck that shit.
Don't they understand this alienates just as many or more readers than it supposedly attracts?
It used to be a highly respected teletext service called game central before teletext got shut down
http://uk.kotaku.com/ still has the old style layout if that's of use
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I too stopped checking Kotaku's website. I still get their tweets which send out the "big stories".
I love Giant Bomb (member) and Patrick's stories are good but no where near comprehensive. That's pretty much their mission statement.
-Louis C.K.
decent writers that actually play the games. The strike through edits can be funny...
1up is pretty decent and has a lot of game coverage. I started going there after IGN got waaaay to overcrowded and commercial.
But that's if I feel like it after listening to a few weekly podcasts: Giant Bombcast, PC Gamer Podcast, 8-4 Play, and Player One Podcast. These podcasts cover the news pretty well and it's fun to listen to their news segments for basically all your gaming news.
I've been using that too since the redesign, because I was never really able to find anyplace better to go than the gawker network, as much as I dislike some of the things that have happened there in the last six months. But has anyone else who's been using the uk. or ca. addresses had the issue where occasionally the front page is filled with posts from like, January? I swear I've seen the post about sneaking guns through TSA checkpoints at airports on Lifehacker like, fifty times now.
Also, on an unrelated note, hello PAForums. First post.
I read:
GamesIndustry.biz/IndustryGamers/Eurogamer
Gamasutra (Features, News, Expert Blogs)
Rock Paper Shotgun
MCV
GiantBomb
Worlds in Motion
Obviously I don't read all the stories I see on my feed but I don't think I miss much either. Google Reader also gives you additional options regarding what you want to see on the feed. I use a Chrome extension that let's me prefetch the entire article instead of just a small preview.
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The Escapist drives me up a fucking wall. It tries to present itself as some kind of artsy high-brow news magazine, but it's really just Kotaku with a better art director. Its original articles are usually extremely poorly-researched, its reviews frequently smack of payola and repurposed press releases, and you can't throw a rock at its forums without hitting a member of their power-trippy moderation staff.
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