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Where do You Get Gaming News/Info on New Products?

Started by dhunton, September 09, 2009, 01:21:00 PM

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dhunton

September 09, 2009, 01:21:00 PM
I'm looking to find out where people get their gaming news. I know of a few sites, but there HAVE to be more - podcasts, twitter folks, blogs, news sites, online magazines - any of these fit my question.

Also, how do you hear about new products coming out? From places like the chat here? Other online communities? Online magazines? Other places?

I'd really like to try to find more places to get more current on my info.

Thanks for any info you can give me!

GeekEclectic

#1
September 09, 2009, 03:34:02 PM
RSS feeds for the main RPG forums. This forum, the TRO at RPG.net. Those are my only two, but I'm sure there's something analogous on other forums like Story Games, EnWorld, the Forge, or whatever else you might go to(I don't, but you might). The two I keep up with keep me abreast of like 80% or more of the new stuff coming out just from browsing thread titles. All of the releases from major and middling companies, as well as a ton of indie stuff as well.

My second source is the occasional trip to publisher sites for companies that make games I already love. I go to these to find out about new products coming out for my favorite game lines from the source, and sometimes stumble across interesting new projects being worked on by these companies I already like and trust.

I would rarely ever intentionally use another method for RPG news, especially not podcasts or Twitter. Any news I get by those means is purely accidental. Like a podcast I listen to for entertainment purposes mentioning a game I hadn't heard of, or a friend tweeting about an RPG they like that I hadn't heard of either. But such instances are incredibly rare. Actually, in the latter case it's entirely nonexistent. I'm the one who always baffles my friends with info about games they never heard of, not the other way around.
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Claudius

#2
September 09, 2009, 03:40:01 PM
Mainly in forums, like this one.
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mhensley

#3
September 09, 2009, 04:00:46 PM
Mainly from forums and blogs.  This is a pretty good news site still-

http://ogrecave.com/

Koltar

#4
September 09, 2009, 06:11:17 PM
I work at a game store.

Between the work computer's links and the 5 or 6 forums I either belong to or lurk on - I hear plenty of news and rumors.

Oh yeah, there is the works at a game store thing. Sometimes I do hear some news before it gets out to the rest of the gaming world.  There are also times I hear the real story about what happened with some game companies 5 or 10 years ago.


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September 09, 2009, 06:55:12 PM
RPGnet







What?

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#6
September 09, 2009, 06:56:46 PM
Quote from: Claudius;329131Mainly in forums, like this one.

Same. Almost exclusively, in fact, from reading reaction threads.

Nazgul

#7
September 09, 2009, 10:46:21 PM
Forums like this one. Pundy's blog and others. Sometimes company web sites, but not usualy.
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thecasualoblivion

#8
September 09, 2009, 11:01:52 PM
Aside from the odd White Wolf book, I mostly buy stuff from WotC. I get my News/Info primarily from WotC's site, with some things from message boards and blogs when they get a scoop.

WotC is the only company I really follow. Anything else is generally an impulse buy of something I see in a store.
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September 10, 2009, 12:04:08 AM
A couple of forums, and the RPG Bloggers Network and friends.
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#10
September 10, 2009, 07:40:38 AM
As said by others, forums like this one. I guess it's an echo chamber in here. :)

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September 10, 2009, 03:30:05 PM
Jesus beams it directly into my brain. Why?

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September 10, 2009, 03:49:33 PM
Quote from: Seanchai;329715Jesus beams it directly into my brain. Why?

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Nihil sine magno labore vita dedit mortalibus.

And by your sword shall you live and serve thy brother, and it shall come to pass when you have dominion, you will break Jacob's yoke from your neck.

Dios, que buen vasallo, si tuviese buen señor!

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September 10, 2009, 04:14:04 PM
Forums (primarily this one nowadays), twitter (which sometimes leads me to various blogs), and discussions with my parents and the owner of my FLGS.
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