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Rock Paper Shotgun[1] is really good for the most part, co-founded by the writer of The New Games Journalism[2]. Their reviews don't have explicit ratings, whic

Rock Paper Shotgun[1] is really good for the most part, co-founded by the writer of The New Games Journalism[2]. Their reviews don't have explicit ratings, which neatly sidesteps the fooforaw over giving things the "wrong" rating. They're on GamerGate's hit list (because somebody's girlfriend allegedly slept with one of their writers), which is another point in their favor. They're PC-specific, though. Any other good gaming sites out there I should check out? [1] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ [2] http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/assorted-essays/the-new-games-journalism/ http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/assorted-essays/the-n...

megaman22 9y ago
Rock, Paper, Shotgun also used to run a regular column called Saturday Morning Crapshoot, which covered a lot of old, weird, and less than stellar games. I think they stopped, but the archive is good for a chuckle every now and then
sprafa 9y ago
rock paper shotgun used to be amazing, but a lot of the early staff left to make their own games I think
- taohansen 9y ago
  they are still amazing. see any of the recent articles on Observer or playing a spacefaring race of tortoise in Stellaris.
Uhhrrr 9y ago
I think Nathan Grayson writing about his friends is pretty well established at this point: http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson Although he now writes for Kotaku, not RPS. techraptor.com and nichegamer.com are pretty good.
- abritinthebay 9y ago
  Well established amongst the GamerGate crowd, yes (which is what deepfreeze is all about). Though you know that - after all the two sites you mention were leading on that trash-fire of a movement.
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago
  > I think Nathan Grayson writing about his friends is pretty well established at this point: http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson That's...alarmingly obsessive. The article, I mean, not Grayson.
  - Uhhrrr 9y ago
    It is probably just a product of Nathan Grayson being visibly dodgy over a long period of time.
  - JCSato 9y ago
    That's kind of the failure of Deepfreeze - GG wanted to prove that their claims about journos held water, but when they provided and standardized their data it's so off-putting and clinical that it's hard to not dismiss as a little creepy.
    - moomin 9y ago
      The GGers who genuinely thought it was about ethics in journalism were completely missing the point though. I want you to imagine we were talking the defence industry. Imagine it was public knowledge that billions of dollars were being skimmed by defence contractors. Then imagine someone shows up and says “Hey, this guy’s been telling people to go to gun store A and getting $20 store vouchers.” Then imagine that turned out not to be the case. Now, here’s the point: you could spend the next year meticulously documenting every last store voucher the guy had ever received from gun shops B to Z and still no-one would care, because everyone knows that, even if it was true, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference in the grand scheme of things. If you then announced that this was part of a larger campaign for “Clarity in Defense Spending” people would conclude that either a) you were truly clueless or b) you had an axe to grind with this guy that was nothing to do with gun store vouchers. Anyway, that’s what people mean when they say “It was never about ethics in computer game journalism.”
JCSato 9y ago
Used to love RPS, before most of its best writers left. Now it's a not particularly exceptional group of writers and the most whinging, entitled EiC/owner I've ever seen. There's nothing quite like seeing John Walker act like a 2 year old in every comments section. As far as other good outlets, I think Techraptr is the only one I know of that holds water these days. Loved Tom Francis' work at PC Gamer back in the day too, before he left.
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megaman22 9y ago

Rock, Paper, Shotgun also used to run a regular column called Saturday Morning Crapshoot, which covered a lot of old, weird, and less than stellar games. I think they stopped, but the archive is good for a chuckle every now and then

sprafa 9y ago

rock paper shotgun used to be amazing, but a lot of the early staff left to make their own games I think

taohansen 9y ago
they are still amazing. see any of the recent articles on Observer or playing a spacefaring race of tortoise in Stellaris.

Uhhrrr 9y ago

I think Nathan Grayson writing about his friends is pretty well established at this point: http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson Although he now writes for Kotaku, not RPS. techraptor.com and nichegamer.com are pretty good.

abritinthebay 9y ago
Well established amongst the GamerGate crowd, yes (which is what deepfreeze is all about). Though you know that - after all the two sites you mention were leading on that trash-fire of a movement.
PhasmaFelis 9y ago
> I think Nathan Grayson writing about his friends is pretty well established at this point: http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson That's...alarmingly obsessive. The article, I mean, not Grayson.
- Uhhrrr 9y ago
  It is probably just a product of Nathan Grayson being visibly dodgy over a long period of time.
- JCSato 9y ago
  That's kind of the failure of Deepfreeze - GG wanted to prove that their claims about journos held water, but when they provided and standardized their data it's so off-putting and clinical that it's hard to not dismiss as a little creepy.
  - moomin 9y ago
    The GGers who genuinely thought it was about ethics in journalism were completely missing the point though. I want you to imagine we were talking the defence industry. Imagine it was public knowledge that billions of dollars were being skimmed by defence contractors. Then imagine someone shows up and says “Hey, this guy’s been telling people to go to gun store A and getting $20 store vouchers.” Then imagine that turned out not to be the case. Now, here’s the point: you could spend the next year meticulously documenting every last store voucher the guy had ever received from gun shops B to Z and still no-one would care, because everyone knows that, even if it was true, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference in the grand scheme of things. If you then announced that this was part of a larger campaign for “Clarity in Defense Spending” people would conclude that either a) you were truly clueless or b) you had an axe to grind with this guy that was nothing to do with gun store vouchers. Anyway, that’s what people mean when they say “It was never about ethics in computer game journalism.”

JCSato 9y ago

Used to love RPS, before most of its best writers left. Now it's a not particularly exceptional group of writers and the most whinging, entitled EiC/owner I've ever seen. There's nothing quite like seeing John Walker act like a 2 year old in every comments section. As far as other good outlets, I think Techraptr is the only one I know of that holds water these days. Loved Tom Francis' work at PC Gamer back in the day too, before he left.

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