Your preferred news sources?

[ISP]

Tech stuff and some gaming: Slashdot, Reddit, Ars Technica, EE Times, Hacker News

Tim Pool's two YouTube dailies are good for socio-political stuff (https://www.youtube.com/user/Timcasts) & (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe0...ahAURWuxAJnjdA)

[TR3NT]

I'm not sure i just recently found him within the last few months through his twitter and then started watching his channel.

[OverdriveActive]

He goes down the rabbit hole of "greed is ruining everything" a bit and his on-camera persona is quite obnoxious. I'm not bothered by it but a lot of people take issue with either one of those and ignore him for it. At their own peril because he's a pretty decent sort and seems to side strongly with consumers all the time. Seems to stay away from most political stuff as well, only offering minor comments here and there or comparisons for comedic value.

[OverdriveActive]

I forgot to mention OneAngryGamer in my post. Glad to see someone else mention him. Covers a bit much of the anime / JP market for me but when he covers the west it's usually linking out to good sources. I'll have to check out nichegamer, seems it's getting mentioned a bit around here.

[ad_victoriam]

I don't know about this guy, wasn't he completely anti-Gamergate (the real consumer one, not the fake one the media tried to spin)? Then when Gamergate essentially won, he did a 180 and was suddenly down with it? I may be wrong but if that is true it's pretty self serving, though I do acknowledge people can realize they made a mistake as well.

Correct - Ian did start out firmly anti-GG. I forget what started his redemption arc, but remember being quite surprised when he flipped.

Jim Sterling is another one. He seems pretty solidly pro-consumer but can also be a bit of a dipstick. TheQuartering and me were having a bit of a todoment with him a few weeks ago on Twitter.

Some people called him an NPC, but I pointed out that no-one who could invent the Cornflakes Homunculus could be an NPC. I almost soiled myself the first time I saw that, it's exactly my kind of stupid humour and the type of thing I would probably have done when I was a teenager.

This is probably starting to edge towards the political so I am going to shut up now.

Jim Sterling is definitely left-wing but he's the rare sort that values intellectual integrity. I disagree with him a lot (especially his gloomy takes on the nature of capitalism) but I feel that I could have a reasonable conversation with him.

[baboon]

Ian Miles Cheong (HypeBreak)

I don't know about this guy, wasn't he completely anti-Gamergate (the real consumer one, not the fake one the media tried to spin)? Then when Gamergate essentially won, he did a 180 and was suddenly down with it? I may be wrong but if that is true it's pretty self serving, though I do acknowledge people can realize they made a mistake as well.

Jim Sterling is another one. He seems pretty solidly pro-consumer but can also be a bit of a dipstick. TheQuartering and me were having a bit of a todoment with him a few weeks ago on Twitter.

Some people called him an NPC, but I pointed out that no-one who could invent the Cornflakes Homunculus could be an NPC. I almost soiled myself the first time I saw that, it's exactly my kind of stupid humour and the type of thing I would probably have done when I was a teenager.

This is probably starting to edge towards the political so I am going to shut up now.

[HICKORYHAMMER]

I haven't had a regular source of news I trust since PC Accelerator got shut down. <F5>
YongYea, Its A Gundam, and The Exclusive Ace are pretty good on YouTube, in addition to The Quartering, of course.

[guwapojoe]

the Quartering and tim pool on youtube. i don't always agree but at least i know where they stand.

[Musou Tensei]

There are some websites I visit on a daily basis (and I hope I can soon add this website to that)
https://nichegamer.com/
http://operationrainfall.com/
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/
http://thegg.net/
LewdGamer (as the name suggests it's 18+ so no link)
https://www.ricedigital.co.uk/

[Domingos]

I mostly just watch youtube for gaming news, I don't follow any gaming news website because they've all failed at some point in terms of how true the news are.

I watch most of the youtube channels other users posted here, but I try to diversify a lot more. For example, I don't like Jim Sterling a lot, but he does make good points sometimes and has a different take on the market. I used to really like Rags a lot and used to back him on Patreon but eventually I stopped watching him because I felt he would usually exagerate the severity of certain things, and make 40 minute videos where he's looping around the same arguments that are often not valid. I also stopped watching YongYea because he would often pick up small inconveniences in games and make a huge fuzz out of them, and honestly I was starting to get tired of having every single game in existence compared to the only RPG he ever played (*cough* Witcher 3 *cough*).

I obviously watch TheQuartering, that's the entire reason I came into the forums . I found him to be one of the most unbiased youtubers I've seen. He's not trying to drive the "ALL WOMEN BAD" idea, but he does call out when inclusivity and diversity become ridiculous, which even though he's not the only youtuber doing it, he's probably one of the best at talking about the real issues.

Besides these I really enjoy Angry Joe, although he has been increasingly become somewhat of a shill in the most recent years, and I've been subbing and unsubbing from him for the longest time, he was one of the first youtubers I started actively watching, back in the days where he was still starting in ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.

[OverdriveActive]

I think all the sources mentioned by baboon are solid. I've also come around to thinking most of the "previous gen" outlets and channels have mostly lagged behind and are no longer really representing gamers. They seem to either be stuck in their own little bubble (AngryJoe) or have gotten too close to the thing they're supposed to be critiqueing / covering (Kotaku / Polygon / IGN).

In general, Youtube seem to have the most actual critique going on so that's where I go. YongYea, ItsAGundam, SkillUp, Jim Sterling (in doses), TheQuartering and LaymenGaming are the ones I follow most at the moment. My news loop is:

- Read announcement article / video from game developers / publishers on websites / Twitter
- Make up my own mind a bit
- See comments on Twitter on retweets of the announcement (primary announcement comments are always garbage)
- Adjust for points I hadn't considered yet
- Watch videos on Youtube as it filters through the news cycle with the channels above
- Maybe read some stuff that gets shouted out here and there

I'm hoping that ExclusivelyGames can end up somewhere in that stack

[baboon]

In general I avoid any digital outlet (IGN, Kotaku, Polygon) like the plague. I tend to listen to YouTube while I'm working so that tends to be my method of consumption. I like:

- TheQuartering - great takes in a funny, snarky but fair style. You may have heard of him.

- Special Moves - the best guys (in my opinion) from PrettyGood Gaming got laid off and set up a new channel - great channel and very unpolitical: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFA...AvpK3fw/videos

- YongYea - more straight laced, except when he goes on a rant against EA, Jessica Price or some other perennial offender: https://www.youtube.com/user/YongYea/videos

- Rags - funny, snarky but with zero logical fallacies. A long form, more meta channel if you like. Hasn't made a video for ages but his archive is well worth watching/listening to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGL...0Rou2gw/videos

- The Dishonored Wolf - a channel for games, movies and books. I have bought several things based on his recommendations and enjoyed them all. An edgelord that got sucked into a hideous drama spiral, may never make any more content but the archive is great. Highly politically incorrect, you have been warned! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVE...QEIlNqw/videos

- ReviewTechUSA - Rich is a good man, if a little too woke for his own good. A good channel though: https://www.youtube.com/user/ReviewTechUSA/videos

- SkillUp - Good channel with some in-depth analysis, I found them a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ7...nVy2B8Q/videos

- The Act Man - a bit more analytical of old games rather than being a news channel, he does however review new games he likes. The best voice of Paul the Llama ever: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7W...uCi1z-Q/videos

- ItsAGundam - a bizarre stream of consciousness based on games. If Jimi Hendrix had a gaming channel, it would probably sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbQ...q2FIATw/videos

There are a few others I subscribe to but these are the ones I listen to most often.

Channels I don't like include:

- AngryJoe
- Glitch Please/The Know
- Pat the NES Punk

These channels annoy the living shite out of me.

Hope this list is useful to some of you.

[TR3NT]

Teran I'll check both of them out.

[Teran]

Tim doesn't comment on game news enough really, but I do love his channel.

[Teran]

I have similar tastes. Give nichegamer and to a lesser extent giantbomb a shot. I am also a hypebreak sub on youtube and follow more on twitter.