What are the Top 5 Game Sites in 2013?

If you had to list 5 game sites that you go to regularly to get reviews, news, etc. on games? What would they be?

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Strategy Informer

GameFaqs

Metacritic

GameSpot

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun is really the only one I visit regularly, and then aggregate news from http://reddit.com/r/games

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Kotaku

 

Metacritic to me is something that should never be relied upon.

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I only read Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Also the "PC Gaming" sub-forum of Stardock also has its exclusives so now and then. ;)

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PC Gamer
Polygon
Game Informer

Otherwise, I just catch news on Twitter and Facebook.

 

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gamefaqs

mobygames

outofeight

lparchive.org

rpgcodex  :troll:

 

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Blue's News

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For me it would be Rock Paper Shotgun and PC Gamer, Kotaku has too much clutter for me. I used to visit MMO champion a lot when I still played WoW and I guess you could sort of call Total Bisquits youtube channel a gaming news site

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This forum, and the Paradox forum.  Everything else I wait to show up on Gamersgate, GOG, GameStop, or Steam.

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TheMittani.com

That's it for me.

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IGN

PC Gamers

Space Sector

Space Game Junkie

Coming Soon.net

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RPS and QT3 mostly.  

Although I've probably found most of the interesting indie/kickstarter games I've been playing lately right here. 

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Wow, mine are going to be unusual for this group.

RPGamer / RPGFan

PSNStores

Gematsu

Playstation Lifestyle / Playstation Nation

Gamerankings

 

I read Rock Paper Shotgun, but rarely follow their review advice as PC is not my primary platform. I also get info from Game Informer's paper magazine. I've started to read more IGN reviews lately as well because of Colin Moriarty @notaxation constantly linking his reviews on twitter. I also read Gamers with Jobs, but they don't usually post reviews.

 

I'm pretty sure my list won't help as Stardock doesn't make Playstation games or RPGs.

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Spacesector, ign, gamespot, youtube (yes not a game site but still get lots of info so sue me), Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

 

Damn it top 5 I have goofed! fixed.

 

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www.gamershell.com for demos

this forum, specifically pc gaming

and I occasionally do google searches and look at various sites, not sticking to a specific one.

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Though apparently gamershell.com's demos section isn't currently working?

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For "news":

1. rockpapershotgun

2. polygon

For commentary/opinion/garbage:

3. reddit

4. octopusoverlords forum

5. youtube

 

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Wow, RPS is pretty popular here.

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Massively [joystiq.com];  They do a great job covering the MMO scene

 

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Gamefaqs, Screw Attack, Youtube, here.

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Stardock Forums

PC Gamer

Adam Sessler @ Revision3, formerly at: ('X-Play @ G4', & 'Gamespot TV' @ ZDTV)

 

Adam Sessler's Opinion (which I mostly agree with) on Metacritic.

 

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I have RSS feeds for the following sites, 

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/

http://www.joystiq.com/

http://www.shacknews.com/

http://www.eurogamer.net/

 

But RPS is the only one which I look at for Reviews, that and http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation as they are the least biased and have the most concise reviews. Eurogamer is obviously biased, so is IGN, Gamespot ect. Can't trust most of the reviewers these days, as they are either incompetent or openly biased towards Publishers and certain Developers.

The sooner we put Metacritic to death the better.

As Gamasutra reports and as further relayed by Eurogamer

According to the report by Gamasutra, every outlet is placed into one of six tiers of importance. The data was the culmination of six months research where the course director and his students found that their modeled groupings of 188 publications across six tiers produced almost the exact same results as those of actual Metacritic.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-27-metacritic-score-weighing-process-revealed-report
http://www.facebook.com/Metacritic/posts/501424766586647
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Quoting Aexrael, reply 23

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that and http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation as they are the least biased and have the most concise reviews.

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End of Aexrael's quote

Heh.. I'd say that zero-punctuation has very high bias, in the sense that he's actively looking for the worst in the games he's reviewing. But I also consider that some of the best methods of determining value pre-purchase, by asking myself "Can I live with the worst of this product's problems?".

I've enjoyed thoroughly a number of games that have been slammed by zero punctuation. I still agreed with him on every point he makes, with a grin on my face. ^_^

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I used to follow RPS but they update too often so it's hard to follow them. Recently, they chose to be politically correct about women in the gameindustry which I think is complete bullshit. Just a way for them to get pats on their backs from politically correct people.

 

Sites that I check, in order of frequency:

1. FZ

2. This place :D

3. Destructiod

 

 

I would like some other place to follow that isn't corrupt (Gamespot being a prime example) and which have a good structure on their site.