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Greetings all.
Something I've noticed a lot of lately is that as a person who spends a lot of time working with electronics and computer hardware - pcs, consoles, tvs, mp3 players, you name it - it's become steadily more difficult to find information on the more esoteric branches of the products I work with. Far too often I'll look for reviews of a non-mainstream MP3 Player or monitor and find at best some epinions user reviews ('this is my 1st mp3 player and it plays songs ok i give it a5/5!!!') and even worse, a billion and one crappy vendor results, all of them selling the exact same item with the exact same information for twenty straight pages.
This is becoming a problem for me, and I'm guessing for a lot of you as well. That's why I'd like to propose a bit of a community project, where we review the reviews, and pool our information with one another. Right now I have a basic list up with sections off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's more we can add on.
The focus of this project is to bring to light little-known but in-depth reviews of products that don't get much coverage on the net. I'm not going to re-index every IGN review, there's no point. Most mainstream games and hardwre will get a dozen reviews or so on gamerankings/anandtech/whoever else, so by and large I'll assume that everyone knows where to find those, but indie reviews, especially reviews by our forumers, are most welcome.
To begin, I'd like your input on what sections should be added to the spoilered list above, and which review sites to start adding. I'd also like your opinions on the quality of said reviews/review sites.
March 23rd 8:57 EDIT: Okay, switching "Hardware reviews" to "Hardware reviews and news", and am now giving to top billing to sites that specialize in what they do. Also added a few "General" tabs until I get time to edit in their individual links.
CONSOLE REVIEWS
SOFTWARE REVIEWS
PC REVIEWS
Monitors
SOFTWARE REVIEWS
HOME/AV - HARDWARE REVIEWS AND NEWS
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HARDWARE REVIEWS AND NEWS
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General
1-up - general games industry coverage and news. (Apparently not as bad as IGN?)
Old consoles
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Wii
Wii Rally Apparently the quality is 'meh''.
4 Color Rebellion Covers news for most nintendo consoles
PS3
4 Color Rebellion Covers news for most nintendo consoles
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360
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DS
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PSP
lol phantom
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SOFTWARE REVIEWS
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Old consoles
IGN PS2
IGN Xbox
IGN Cube
Squashua's PA forums thread of Gamecube games. Extensive and thorough coverage of the best games for the Cube - a must for GC enthusiasts or new owners.
IGN GameboyEx
Wii
PS3
360
DS
PSP
IGN Xbox
IGN Cube
Squashua's PA forums thread of Gamecube games. Extensive and thorough coverage of the best games for the Cube - a must for GC enthusiasts or new owners.
IGN GameboyEx
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HARDWARE REVIEWS AND NEWS
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General
http://www.anandtech.com/
http://techreport.com/
http://www.hardocp.com/
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=review
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/
http://www.tomshardware.com/
http://www.firingsquad.com/
http://www.bjorn3d.com/
http://www.bit-tech.net/
http://techreport.com/
http://www.hardocp.com/
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=review
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/
http://www.tomshardware.com/
http://www.firingsquad.com/
http://www.bjorn3d.com/
http://www.bit-tech.net/
Monitors
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CPUs
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Cooling
Frostytech Frostytech is pretty good at keeping up with reviewing every PC CPU cooler out there. The reviews aren't as in depth as say, Anandtech, but the volume is good.
Video Cards
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Hard Drives
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Power Supplies
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Mice, Keyboads and Controllers
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Sound Cards
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Networking
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Motherboards
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Ram
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Printers
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SOFTWARE REVIEWS
HOME/AV - HARDWARE REVIEWS AND NEWS
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Speakers
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Receivers
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Headphones
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Powerbars
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Toys
Cameras
Greetings all.
Something I've noticed a lot of lately is that as a person who spends a lot of time working with electronics and computer hardware - pcs, consoles, tvs, mp3 players, you name it - it's become steadily more difficult to find information on the more esoteric branches of the products I work with. Far too often I'll look for reviews of a non-mainstream MP3 Player or monitor and find at best some epinions user reviews ('this is my 1st mp3 player and it plays songs ok i give it a5/5!!!') and even worse, a billion and one crappy vendor results, all of them selling the exact same item with the exact same information for twenty straight pages.
This is becoming a problem for me, and I'm guessing for a lot of you as well. That's why I'd like to propose a bit of a community project, where we review the reviews, and pool our information with one another. Right now I have a basic list up with sections off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's more we can add on.
The focus of this project is to bring to light little-known but in-depth reviews of products that don't get much coverage on the net. I'm not going to re-index every IGN review, there's no point. Most mainstream games and hardwre will get a dozen reviews or so on gamerankings/anandtech/whoever else, so by and large I'll assume that everyone knows where to find those, but indie reviews, especially reviews by our forumers, are most welcome.
To begin, I'd like your input on what sections should be added to the spoilered list above, and which review sites to start adding. I'd also like your opinions on the quality of said reviews/review sites.
March 23rd 8:57 EDIT: Okay, switching "Hardware reviews" to "Hardware reviews and news", and am now giving to top billing to sites that specialize in what they do. Also added a few "General" tabs until I get time to edit in their individual links.
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Awesome!
You do need a place for the "lol phantom" in the SOFTWARE REVIEWS section though.
There'd only be PC games in it, though.
Anyway, I will look to add something to this thread later on. If nothing else a game or hardware review perhaps.
I made sure to scour pretty much everyone here about what the best GC games were.
For your Wii-ing pleasure.
There are ones for DS and PS2, but I don't really know if they're as comprehensive. :winky:
Sweet - that's exactly the kind of stuff that should be on there.
Gonna do another update later tonight with that on there and a lot of the obvious PC hardware links.
Just saying, because I visit the following:
Nintendo (DS, GC, Wii) News:
4colorrebellion.com
Meh-quality Wii News:
wiirally.com
High Tech Fun Crap
gizmodo.com
Stuff for Transformers Toys:
http://www.bwtf.com/ goes to Benson Yee, but reading his reviews makes him sound very full of himself
http://www.tformers.com/ always has the latest and greatest Transformers news.
Role-Playing Games
http://www.rpg.net/ is the definitive source of RPG reviews.
Board Games
http://www.boardgamegeek.com is for all tabletop games
Yeah, their strange non-apples to apples comparison method is kind of misleading - I'm gonna put up their links soon and bring up that issue in their write-up.
Heh, if you post their names I'll link to their PM boxes.
Seriously though, if any of them have particularly great posts here or elsewhere let me know.
Also, while waiting for word of mouth is great for games, it's a little more difficult with, say, HDTVs. A lot of the times I find I'm the only person I know personally looking for that exact model.
But the reviews are the most awesome I've ever read in any of these categories
I don't really need anything else.
Wil Harris is frequently on This Week in Tech, he's pretty cool.
Althought, I'm not sure how many of their articles are in-house. I really like Anandtech.
I think if you keep it up it could be pretty useful.