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05-26-2008, 12:47 AM
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Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Not there yet.
Posts: 879
Current Game: Beneath A Steel Sky
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Where do you get your gaming news?
Just wondering what websites or magazines or friends you all get all your gaming-related news from. Also, why do you use that source?
Personally, I like GameSpy because its layout doesn't feel as bloated as some sites (like GameSpot, for example), and it has a nice weekly newsletter that lands in my inbox every week containing links to all the articles posted that week.
So how 'bout you?
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05-26-2008, 12:59 AM
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Banned
Status: Banned
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,165
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Penny Arcade and the Escapist. Most of the others tend to suck up massively.
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05-26-2008, 01:38 AM
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I Slay Dragons
Status: Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Man-Room in Missouri
Posts: 13,771
Current Game: Scrolling Eldery
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If you can handle wading through the crap, IGN is actually pretty decent for news recaps. Aside from that, there's Penny Arcade an here.
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05-26-2008, 01:39 AM
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Banned
Status: Banned
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,165
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Yeah, well, you know what they say. You can't spell ignorant without IGN.
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05-26-2008, 02:51 AM
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Hello, Sound Only
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Mumbai
Posts: 9,297
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Since I'm a Professional Blogger (Oh how I love to flaunt that term), I use a variety of feeds mashed up by Google Reader. I mostly stick to blogs, as they cover both important and sub-important news, so among my lists are Kotaku, Joystiq, Shacknews, 1UP and Gamespy. Most of the time it's pretty much wherever there's interesting news to be seen.
Last edited by Sabretooth; 05-26-2008 at 03:59 AM.
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05-26-2008, 04:18 AM
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Fight da Powah
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,152
Current Game: SMT: Imagine
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Here (lol) and GameSpot.
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05-26-2008, 04:58 AM
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Scruffy Englishman
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The real world/ivory towers
Posts: 1,974
Current Game: Viking Warrior Poets
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My brain is connected to the internet. I don't have to search to find news, it comes to me. Then I distil it to find what might be interesting to SWK-ers and post it here  .
Edit: More seriously; Kokatu, 1Up, Gamespy, GameSpot, IGN, Gamasutra. There are others but I can't think of them right off the top of my head.
StarWarsKnights.com -- News and features will be returning shortly...
I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
Last edited by Pavlos; 05-26-2008 at 05:13 AM.
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05-26-2008, 08:07 AM
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Death... by Exile
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bruges, Belgium
Posts: 2,782
Current Game: The Old Republic
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IGN, 1UP, Gamer.nl and 9Lives (Belgian) most frequently. Sometimes Gamasutra, GameBanshee and Gamespot.
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05-26-2008, 09:22 AM
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App Off
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: White City
Posts: 3,343
Current Game: The Knife of Dunwall (PC)
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I used Gamespot regularly, but now I rarely use any online sources other than the game's official site when it comes to info. The reason is that I'm just not interested in too many details, I just want some basic info and as for the details, I get them from a local magazine.
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05-26-2008, 12:38 PM
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Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 199
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I used to be one of those geeks that are upset when their favourite game doesn't receive a fitting score from their favourite game magazine. The magazine of my choice was IGN and Gamestar (german).
Those days are over, I don't give a damn about magazines and their reviews and scores anymore. Instead, I play a demo if available. Other than that, I look for people who appear to have a similar taste in games who have already played the game and scan their comments. Then I decide.
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05-26-2008, 01:43 PM
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El Guapo
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: San Germán,PR
Posts: 1,305
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Wikipedia and here 
"Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The dark side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual."
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05-26-2008, 02:16 PM
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CHEATER (Apparently)
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sunny Arizona
Posts: 1,173
Current Game: Team Fortress 2
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Dreinds and GameInformer whenever it happens to show up. I mostly get news from displays at Target. I didn't even know there was going to be an MGS4 until I saw it's shrine at Target and EB games. 
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05-26-2008, 04:55 PM
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Uncreative User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Posts: 3,813
Current Game: Dishonored
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Kokatu, 1Up, GameSpot, Gamasutra, to name some english ones...
And another absurd amount of brazillian sites.
And it may not be the best place to look for news on games, but EGM (the brazillian edition) is actually a good spot for more in-depht and detailed views on those.
Inspiration
.Bioshock inspiration.
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05-26-2008, 05:45 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Scotland
Posts: 254
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When I'm into a game I check out forums about it. Those forums, like here, tend to discuss other games as well and pass on recommendations, so I just leapfrog across the gaming world without really noticing the latest news. Though I suppose I do get some updates from Penny Arcade and The Escapist and such when I'm passing through.
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05-28-2008, 06:19 PM
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Death to all but metal!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Tropical Scotland
Posts: 2,683
Current Game: NWN
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Gamespot UK mostly, and mainly because I've got a profile there since like forever with all the games I own on it, handy if I want to find some cheats for a certain game or something...
Other than that Wikipedia does the job 
"I killed a man cause he killed my goat."
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05-28-2008, 08:15 PM
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Its 5 o'clock somewhere
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 1,630
Current Game: Deus Ex forever
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Mostly gamespot and pc gamer, although PCG has gone waaayyy down hill since I first started reading it. I used to play demos but since around when HL2 came out my computers not been good enough to handle 95% of the "Big" games that I would normally try, so I mostly just read the sites/magazines to take up time.

"Everyone that posts here is aware of the game, thanks though." ET
Chad Dumeer, Deus Ex: "When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings."
"Es lebe die Freiheit!"(Freedom lives)
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