Where do YOU go for video game news?

[Toadofsky]

I haven't really been posting much on here lately, but I was a bit curious, where do some of you go for video game news?

I guess this is kind of an odd topic, but I just don't like going to Kotaku or Destructoid, and having to see stupid "hardcore" blogs/opinion pieces all the time. Sure sometimes they may have something interesting or funny, but I'd rather look at some better sites than them. IGN, is okay, but I'm not that enthralled with their ad pages.

So, where do YOU guys go for video game news?

[Skummel Maske]

I just use Kotaku. All news seem to come through there, so it does the job for me.

[LuketheXjesse]

Whatever VG magazine is on the magazine rack at wal-mart.

[RedFusion]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/

Ever since I saw that their tagline was "PC Gaming Since 1873", I've been visiting that site almost daily ever since. They update quite often and I've found quite a few interesting games I never otherwise would have discovered, such as Naumachia.

Before that I used to switch between gametrailers and gamespot, simply because of lack of better alternatives. Gamespot barely has much news though anyway.

[Malaki-LEGEND.sys]

I hit 1up myself.

I like their features and podcasts. Parish finally got an RPG podcast going just recently in fact, so I'm quite happy.

[Mustin]

Dale North

[lazygecko]

Neogaf has been my primary source for a lot of years.

[Tables]

Either Game Informer, or

I don't really go to any one place online, but if a topic pops up in the message boards I frequent (here, facepunch, etc) then that's how I find stuff out.

[AJ-enova]

I check Gametrailers and IGN everyday. Between them you'll probably hear about everything there is to know...

[Gollgagh]

internet word-of-mouth

but I'm the kind of guy that's still completing his PS2 collection

I only have 13 PS3 games yet, but my PS2 collection is approaching a hundred, I think

[Schwaltzvald]

eh semi-off-topic

I'm the kind of guy that's still completing his PS2 collection

I only have 13 PS3 games yet, but my PS2 collection is approaching a hundred, I think

What are covered on your PS2 Collection, genre wise I mean?

[Triad Orion]

I tend to use Gamespot, 1-up, and Kotaku the most regularly. Generally, Kotaku is probably the most useful.

[Gollgagh]

What are covered on your PS2 Collection, genre wise I mean?

Mostly RPG's (Final Fantasy, SaGa, Xenosaga) and action games (Ace Combat, MGS, Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter) with a few fighting games (Soul Calibur, Tekken).

no shmups, unfortunately. this is one PS2 genre that I don't know what's out there besides Gradius or R-Types

I also (stereotypically) hate sports games except for THPS 3 and 4 and Gran Turismo 3 and 4

[Thin Crust]

Gametrailers myself

[Bahamut]

Word of mouth for me. I don't care for game hype, so if I'm desperate for finding game info after its released that word of mouth doesn't give me enough for, I just go to GameRankings. I also don't like to generally read game related articles by gaming sites because of the sometimes piss poor journalism in the industry (Kotaku I'm looking at you).

[EdgeCrusher]

Normally I just see what everyone is talking about on IRC.

[Thin Crust]

But you know what? Gametrailers just started putting nonskippable ads before their videos. I might have to find a new gaming source. How about say, OCR?

[friendlyHunter]

I was just about to say...

OCR is the only site I go to for video game news.

Well, excluding StarCraft II fansites. Except they don't have news anymore because Blizzard stopped releasing any relevant information about the game.

[The Mutericator]

I use Joystiq and Kotaku, myself. There's some overlap, of course, but since I use Google Reader I can just take ten minutes to blaze through all of the recent news once a day.

[Neo Samus]

Neogaf has been my primary source for a lot of years.

This right here.

[Necrotic]

1up.com, because it has journalists I can tolerate for once

and occassionally NeoGAF

[Toadofsky]

Word of mouth for me. I don't care for game hype, so if I'm desperate for finding game info after its released that word of mouth doesn't give me enough for, I just go to GameRankings. I also don't like to generally read game related articles by gaming sites because of the sometimes piss poor journalism in the industry (Kotaku I'm looking at you).

Kotaku gets too much into the "hardcore" gamer mentality, that I'm sick of hearing. And their polls they have "provide" absolutely nothing to me.

I like to see game footage on Game Trailers, but Bonus Round is a joke to me. Michael Pachter's predictions, and his analyzing is getting ridiculous.

I like Gamebiz from what I've seen of few and far between articles...

[Dyne]

ThaSauce, Kotaku, Destructoid, 1UP.com, IGN (when desperate, and never before), OCR Forums, and magazines.

[Guy In Rubber Suit]

I check GamesIndustry.biz, Gamasutra, Gamepolitics, 1up, Crispy Gamer and Kotaku. However I like Kotaku the least because of the way they try to inject personality into what are supposed to be news stories. Leave that to articles and features.

[Strike911]

Kotaku's headlines are pretty good when it comes to breaking news and elaborating on it. I like it for that reason.

That said, I could do without a lot of their "articles." Hell, whenever I read a title to a article like "XBOX360 vs. PS3 GRAPHIC COMPARISON: YOUR THOUGHTS?" I know it's going to be swarming with annoying fanboys, and a lot of time they tend to try and create buzz with articles like that. The site's comment section is absolutely annoying and should be avoided. Just too many dorks trying to one-up each other in larger quantity than other sites on the internet. No one is really useful, and everyone's comments usually some attempt at a clever retort. I hate that side of the internet. Seriously, why all the negativity?

/veering off topic

Still like their news though. And they get things quickly. You can sit on their site refreshing it and they'll have news coming in regularly throughout the day which I like.