Giantbomb for there bloody good podcast, Gamesradar for there really well done articles they spend weeks looking up information for. Rock paper shotgun is one of the best sites to get pc gaming stuff, and also have a good line of articles called "wot i think", which talks more about the game then any review i have read. Destructiod is probably the one site that updates the fastest with alot of news, and a decent community on there. Really like joystiq and also follow gameinformer just because they get all the good games to show off first.

* Game Tome News
* Penguspy
* linuX-gamers.net
* Fun Motion Physics Games
* Offworld

Forgot to mention, Richard Cobbett has a fantastic column on PC Gamer called "Crap Shoot" where he plays all the weird and wonderful games that people may have missed over the years.

Well worth a look, as well as his other work for both PC Gamer and Rock Paper Shotgun.

Giant Bomb and Kotaku for most things, Rock Paper Shotgun for PC.

Metacritic user reviews and aggregate scores and Amazon.com user reviews, the gaming media can largely go F themselves, they're mostly sellouts and I don't have the inclination the 2 of them that are still writing legitimate reviews.

News:
Rock Paper Shotgun
Shacknews
RPGWatch
Gamebanshee

Forums:
Gamespot
GoG
Developer forums

Reviews:
Gamespot (older ones)
Metacritic
Youtube channels

For news and FAQs I just use Google, Rampant Coyote, Gamebanshee, RPS and RPGWatch mostly for mainstream gaming, typically RPGs. I have Indiewatch.com, TIGSource and PlayThisThing bookmarked for indie stuff. For adventure games, I have bookmarked AdventureGamers.com and I check Adventure Classic Gaming from time to time, though they don't have much in the way of news, just mainly reviews.

There aren't many good news sites with expansive coverage, so most of the time I just have to hope I get lucky with some new discovery.

More and more I find it really hard to find good, honest reviews. I used to go to GameSpy quite a bit for that, but I found their writing and the quality of their articles sagging.

I like the Escapist. I found their review of DA2 puzzling given that everyone and their mother are piling heaps of scorn on it (and when even people at Bioware admit it was rushed, then you know something's not right with this game), but I find most of their other reviews trustworthy. I like ZP quite a bit, and Extra Credits and Unskippable are also right up there on my must-watch list, but I don't really like MovieBob all that much. He really lost me when he started going all Yahtzee on The King's Speech - it's not a perfect movie, and it's more than a little saccharine and heavy handed in places, but it's a good solid movie, and I liked it (disclaimer: I am a stutterer myself).

What really got me upset though isn't that he disliked a movie about a stutterer; it was that he disliked it because it wasn't a sci-fi/fantasy/action-adventure/comic book movie, and because he was bitter because said genres are almost always ignored by mainstream movie events like the Oscars, to which I have to say:

(a) Fuck the Oscars: who else has lost track of the times where the Oscars utterly failed to recognize sheer brilliance in cinema? A movie should stand on its own strengths, not on how many Oscars it's won or been nominated for. If you're going to rag on The King's Speech, do it for those reasons, not because the Academy and the press has showered praise on it.

(b) Then are all movies that don't have aliens, robots, orcs or anime fight sequences shit? To me, MovieBob seemed to especially hate The King's Speech because it wasn't the kind of film that *he* would have picked for recognition. Would he have labelled movies like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Full Metal Jacket, or Casino as "Oscar Bait" because they weren't sci-fi/fantasy?

Anyway, sorry for the OT rant.

I also like Kotaku, and Joystiq; I've also been going to Rock Paper Shotgun a lot too. I also like Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs column too.

GOG.com
MobyGames
PC Gamer
Kotaku
Destructiod
GameTrailers
YouTube
Sometimes Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Sometimes Steam

I post on the Giantbomb forums check out reviews on Gamespot, Gamesradar, and sometimes IGN.

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