Blogs For News

Joystiq – Pending Update

Kotaku – As Gizmodo is to gadgets, so Kotaku is to computer games. Edited by Brian D. Crecente, Kotaku provides hourly links and commentary for obsessive gamers—and explores the cultural ramifications interesting enough to attract a wider audience.

Slash Dot – News for Nerds, Stuff that matters

Blogs I Read

Game Girl Advance – GameGirlAdvance (GGA) is a weblog and online journal that brings alternative perspectives to videogame culture. We want to analyze various aspects of gaming but also we want to put it into context, into the larger arena of modern pop culture. We’re interested in what makes games fun, what makes games interesting, what we can learn from games, and what forces convert perfectly normal people into rabid gamers. We’re also interested in music, film, and fashion. And girls. We love girls.

Hideo Kojima’s Blog – Hideo Kojima’s thoughts and comments about his daily life with friends and co-workers told in a story format.

Video Game Media Watch – Video Game Media Watch is a survey of how video games are portrayed in the news and other media. It deals with topics such as fairness/bias, accuracy, professionalism, style and the influence of advertising and public relations on those who write and talk about games for the specialist and mainstream media. It mixes original reporting with unapologetic opinions on the video game journalism industry.

David Jaffe Game Design – David Jaffe’s Blog about his current projects, favorite activities and very controversial take on the gaming industry.

Major Game Sites

Defunct Games – Pending Update

1up.com – Your home for PC video games, Sony Playstation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance, Playstation 3, cheats, previews, reviews, boards, and blogs

GameSpot – Whether you’re a casual or hardcore gamer, GameSpot is as serious about games as you are. Since 1996, when we launched our flagship site, GameSpot.com, we’ve been 100 percent focused on the needs of gamers. Now, as the long-standing online leader in games information and media, GameSpot and its family of sites are more relevant and robust than ever.

GameSpy – IGN Entertainment, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, Inc., is a leading Internet media and services provider focused on the videogame and entertainment enthusiast markets. IGN’s properties collectively attract more than 31 million unique monthly users worldwide. Our network of videogame-related properties (IGN.com, GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, 3D Gamers, Direct2Drive and others) is the web’s number one videogame information destination and attracts one of the largest concentrated audiences of young males on the Internet. We also own and operate the popular movie-related website, Rotten Tomatoes, and one of the leading male lifestyle websites, AskMen.com. In addition, we provide technology for online game play in videogames.

IGN Games – IGN Entertainment, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, Inc., is a leading Internet media and services provider focused on the videogame and entertainment enthusiast markets. IGN’s properties collectively attract more than 31 million unique monthly users worldwide. Our network of videogame-related properties (IGN.com, GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, 3D Gamers, Direct2Drive and others) is the web’s number one videogame information destination and attracts one of the largest concentrated audiences of young males on the Internet. We also own and operate the popular movie-related website, Rotten Tomatoes, and one of the leading male lifestyle websites, AskMen.com. In addition, we provide technology for online game play in videogames.