Best dedicated video gaming sites on the net
By Alexis • Jul 26th, 2010 • Category: Industry News
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As the web continues to grow, various sites become more and more dependent on each other to disseminate information. As such niches within niches get built to act as alternatives to generalist sites. Below are our top three favourite video games sites on the web.
Eurogamer.net
Founded by a young Brit at the then-tender age of 17 twelve years ago, Eurogamer.net has become the pre-eminent voice in video gaming journalism. Its reviews are the equivalent of gold dust, with a high review meaning a game truly is best-in-class and likely to sell bucket loads. It may not be the absolute biggest in the world in terms of traffic, but it is certainly by far the most respected, with some of the best writers on the planet, bar none. And we don’t mean gaming writers only. We mean writers. Period.
Game politics
Gamepolitics.com is a highly specific, super-niche site that caters to gamers interested in the politics surrounding video games, This form of video gameing journalism is part consumer activism, part whistle blower, and part policy explorer, and is notable for being at the centre of every major gaming controversy for the last five years. Whether it is the politics of a gaming tax break in Britain, or Germany’s ongoing gaming censorship, Gamepolitics.com is central to keeping information regarding the video gaming industry free.
Gamesindustry.biz
Gamesindustry.biz is the industry man’s video games site. If ever you, as a gamer, were interested in the finance behind the industry or which franchises spin the most money and how, Gamesindustry.biz has the best industry-related video gaming journalism.
The site has recently switched to a free subscription model so that it is better able to tap into the knowledge of its reader-base, and is better able to figure out what the readers want relative to who the audience is, which is a genius move, considering its growing industry-wide importance.
Keeping in mind we know we left some major sites off the list (in terms of traffic), which video games site do you feel deserves to be on this list and which others do you frequent?
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