Where do you go for game news and reviews? - Page 2

Raging Deadstar · #1 February 22nd, 2005, 07:43 AM

For anything such as Games or Music I check out Amazon to see if they have it. Usually you can get a strong impression from the reviews, usually customer reviews, good or bad, put together have enough information for me to make an opinion.

Other than that it's usually what comes up in conversation amongst my roleplaying group, Republic Commando is currently the topic.

That or this Forum. What will swing me to buy a game is what I've read about it and after playing the Demo.

Gandalph · #2 February 22nd, 2005, 02:15 PM

I am a long time subscriber to PC Gamer. I am also a member of several forums and newsgroups. I use these methods, and word of mouth, to "discover" new games. If a game piques my interest, I will then do research, like the games website for screenshots and forum feedback, and, if I am still interested, I will then download a demo and try it out. Then, and only then, will the game manufacturer get my money.

Azselendor · #3 February 22nd, 2005, 03:33 PM

I've stopped going to game news sites for information about games. I've blown way too much money on games that got good reviews but really were all talk, no guts to trust them.

Sivran · #4 February 22nd, 2005, 07:43 PM

And rightly so, they probably got paid for givin those good reviews.

That said, *good* demos are my preferred way of finding out about a game, along with word of mouth. IE: Borrowing it from a friend, or playing it at a friend's house. I tend to buy games if I've *ahem* borrowed and liked them.

Instar · #5 February 24th, 2005, 11:37 PM

PC Gamer.
PC Gamer.

my subscription ran out

For XBox, I read XBN, I think. Its the one not in circulation now. Dunno.

gray · #6 April 4th, 2005, 11:15 AM

hi from austria,

as i work for independent online media i know the problem of biased reviews - sorry if my english is not the best, but i am native german speaker

we don't accept anything to make reviews better or as good as the publisher wants them. we even had phone calls of publishers wich were not satisfied with us because we rated their games not the way they wanted it and at this point it gets hard for me/us to really withstand this pressure because you also have to think about getting samples of the newest games to give your community the information it wants. but we can be proud to say we withstand any publisher's pressure and we have learned to live with it when we do not get any new samples from theese publishers. i think this independence is also because we do not earn any cash out of our work and we do not really plan to make lots of cash. we are satisfied with financing our server costs out of some banner clicks. nowadays every 2nd gamer's website with noticeable visits is owned by someone in the background. you dont really want to know in how much sites the "big players" are inwolved in some kind of way....

but back to the basic question: for news and reviews i visit rebell.at