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DP’s Gamer Blog:: The Enthusiast’s Blog » Heavy Metal Blues — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:29:11 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:08:38 +0000

Kotaku seems to get quite a lot of exclusive content. I know when my company announces a game (or the publishers marketing department do) the link we always seem to get back is Kotaku.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:56:06 +0000

Yeah I have noticed that the podcasters never seem enthusiastic about doing the podcasts. With little news and features on their site I wonder what they do with their time.

By: QuizzicalDemon

QuizzicalDemon — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:40:01 +0000

Glad you like Eurogamer Daniel, been reading it for a few years and always found the content to be decent, although the forums can get a bit fanboy-ish at times (I suppose that’s the case with most forums tho).

I find that Eurogamer and Kotaku provide me with enough interesting content to read that I don’t tend to visit other major sites. Apart from that I generally like the 1up video podcast, although that seems to have gone downhill a bit lately.

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:28:26 +0000

I wouldn’t really say that the 1up podcasts are information heavy, they are relatively laid back in thier shows and it makes for good podcasting. I really do love GFW Radio though, there is lot’s of good comedy and at the same time a lot of deeper thinking. Seriously man, listen to it for a month and you’ll be hooked.

I also like the design of Eurogamer as well. Very elegant.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:04:20 +0000

I removed the reference of Kotaku and slapped Destructoid in there which I feel is more appropriate.

I felt the same way about IGN in terms of shoving uneccessary information into my face. I’m not interested in press releases or suspect coverage on sponsered games.

By: racketboy

racketboy — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:04:51 +0000

Yeah, the only thing I enjoy of all the things you’ve mentioned in Retronauts.

I even stopped reading Joystiq, Kotaku, and Destructoid. I enjoy the blog format more, but its just too much stuff that I don’t care about coming at me too fast.

I’ve been much happier with the combination of Digg’s gaming section filtering the best stuff out for me. I’ll even peek into the “Upcoming” section to see what may be either up and coming or interesting, but not yet reaching the front page. That pretty much covers my mainsteam stuff.

On top of that, I just subscribe to a number of quality indie blogs like this one that cater to the type of gaming that I enjoy.