I second every single one of those. Kotaku is an anti-Nintendo leaning crap hole. If you want something that's more just them, Nintendo World Report is pretty solid as is Nintendo Life. Also look up Tiny Cartridge which does 3DS but other handhelds too. Also while being UK based and covering also Android, iOS and Vita stuff -- Pocket Gamer is VERY good. And finally going with dual shockers he mentioned, Push Square is also excellent but again in both cases Sony sites.Exhuminator wrote:Replace Kotaku with Siliconera.
NeoGAF is indeed a good place to catch gaming news (not so much a good place to discuss gaming though).
DualSHOCKERS is still a half decent gaming news outlet.
For general reviews, I find http://www.hardcoregamer.com/ is the only place worth a damn anymore (click the reviews tab). They also have a decent news tab that is also the default main page.
For JRPG and WRPG reviews RPGFan is still pretty decent.
For esoteric retro wankery, HG101 is always a good time.
If someone is good at using Metacritic's and GameRankings.com's search engines, its very easy to keep up with the latest releases for any particular platform, as well as what upcoming releases are.
If you need a mass spittle site of bought and paid coverage(and reviews) IGN is the least awful of the bunch but they still are fairly IGNorant when it comes to being as good as the second tier stuff that has to actually work to keep people happy not being shills.
And always -- gamefaqs, GAMER reviews (or other like sites) because when you're slapping down $30/40 $50/60 for a game and it sucks, you'll know about it and why in detail because more people bitch than praise things online.
