First and foremost, I get my video game news (and more widely, my tech news) from Neowin.net. They’re a small site compared to others, but their good at aggregating. Even if the miss something on the front page, someone in the forums will usually make a post about it.
Next is Neogaf, slightly more opinionated since it’s forum only, but you still can get some news from it.
I usually read Penny Arcade whenever a comic is released and will also read the accompanying blog post. Not a lot of people know about Penny Arcade’s forums, but it’s actually a really good forum for off topic discussions. Read some of their topics on politics and prepare to be blown away.
Then there’s 4chan’s /v/. What can you say? It’s not a particularly good place. It updates quickly, but that’s about 4chan’s only good quality.
Last, but certainly not least, there’s Giant Bomb. Endless entertainment. Their bombcast is good listening. Their Quicklooks, especially their Kinect Quicklooks, provided near daily entertainment. If you have a week or so to kill, watch their Endurance Run. The thing about Giant Bomb isn’t just that they talk about interesting things, it’s that their good at conversations. It’s 4 guys hanging out and talking about video games. Hell, they don’t even need to be talking about video games, they could be talking about dinnerware and it would be just as entertaining because of their chemistry.
Years ago I used to read Ctrl-Alt-Del. But overtime Buckley made less and less comics about actual video games and it became more and more a chore to read his comics. One day, after a particularly bad comic, I replaced the link to CAD in my favorites with a link to the CAD Mock Thread at Somethingawful (it was one of the first links that appears when you google “ctrl-alt-del sucks”). However, due to their extreme advertising (everything from intext ads to pop-ups to blinking banners to embedded ads with video to interstitial ads) that link has likewise become unused.
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