Industry News Sites
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Where do you get your industry news/articles, and why do you like said publication(s)?
The List:
Targeting Developers:
Targeting Gamers:
I'll keep the list updated as I find more sites, or they're suggested.
Original Post:
I've recently been looking for, but unable to find, sites not unlike Gamasutra which don't have much of their content locked behind a paywall.
Gamasutra's a great site, but over the past year or so, their featured content appears to me to have become more concerned with social issues than technical, design, and artistic ones, which is what I've always read it for (not to say that the social ones are bad, just not what I like to read in my off time).
Are there any other sites like Gamasutra that focus more on the how of development, vs. the why?
Regardless, where do you get your industry news, and why do you like said publication(s)?
The List:
Targeting Developers:
- Gamasutra
Mostly topical articles, industry news and the occasional indie post-postmortems on the front page. Plenty of user submitted gems if you're willing to dig. - Gamedev.net
Not too familiar with this one. Front page is a curated list of user-submitted articles, mostly technical in nature. Has a tab for news, and pages listing the latest community articles broken down by topic. - AiGameDev.com
Great site for all things ai in video games. Has a tiered membership model, with some content blocked off for non-premium users. - Polycount.com
Bunch of shady blokes modelling weaponized genitalia. Wouldn't go near it. - IndieDB
Hub for all things indie, the front page has a feed of the latest articles by various devs. - Tech-Artists.org
A forum first and foremost. Hangout for tech artists - gamesindustry.biz
News site focusing on the business side of the industry, but with a variety of other articles as well.
Targeting Gamers:
- Game News HQ.net
Multi-source news aggregator. - Rock Paper Shotgun
PC gaming news. - Blue's News
No BS feed for all news gaming. - Gameinformer
GameStop's gaming magazine (don't let that fool you, it's not a bad source). - PCGamer
News about what's on the label. - Polygon
Gaming news site.
I'll keep the list updated as I find more sites, or they're suggested.
Original Post:
I've recently been looking for, but unable to find, sites not unlike Gamasutra which don't have much of their content locked behind a paywall.
Gamasutra's a great site, but over the past year or so, their featured content appears to me to have become more concerned with social issues than technical, design, and artistic ones, which is what I've always read it for (not to say that the social ones are bad, just not what I like to read in my off time).
Are there any other sites like Gamasutra that focus more on the how of development, vs. the why?
Regardless, where do you get your industry news, and why do you like said publication(s)?
Replies
Gamedev.net is a site that is actually about making games, and is better than Gamasutra ever was. It's not really a news site, more of a general development resource.
I'll update the first post with a list of all the sites I know, plus those mentioned in the thread after I get off of work.
Gamasutra's just chasing clicks, which I suppose is fine enough. It's doing roughly the same thing Polygon does, but its content is a little more useful.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ Decent editorials too.
http://www.gameinformer.com/ Pretty good.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/ If you like UK flavour.
http://level-design.org/
https://www.mapcore.org/articles/
General news aggregation + job listings.
https://orcahq.com/
You could add the page to this category:
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Category:Information
can not recommend polygon anymore, very biased and unobjective nowadays, but probably a good place if you care for social stuff