Showing posts with label Gaming Website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaming Website. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

My review of my favorite console gaming website


Gamespot
A well run and solid gaming website. It includes all preview, review of all major games.
Pro:
- List all main streams gaming news. Means the news probably are the only news that you want to know, no junk news.
- Got the most preview, review of most games.
- Like the section that includes "hottest, coming soon (with release date), highest rating". You can do a quick check on upcoming good games.
- News title are pricise and to the point. You'll know right away what is it about by reading first few words.

Con:
- It does take a break on the weekend. Cause news delay sometimes, and might not be the first to publish breaking news.
- Its strength to not publish news other than mainstream news might become a weakness. You might not get news that you want.

1up.com
A gaming website used to belong to EGM until recently taken over by UGO.
Pro:
- Most of the news mostly the same with Gamespot until recently. It began to publish some exclusive and interesting news.

Con:
- Its layout and navigation might be a little bit confusing.
- News are a bit slow on the weekend.

Kotaku
Kotaku is a blog website that cover a comprehensive array of news.
Pro:
- I think Kotaku is one of the fastest gaming news.
- Cover a lot of news around gaming.

Con:
- It might contain a lot of junk news that doesn't interest you. - A bit hard to find specific news, especially old news.
- When reading in RSS feed, there is only a portion of heading that is shown. And sometimes you wouldn't know what is it because the title doesn't describe it in first few words.

The Magicbox
It is a very simple website that just summarize.
Pro:
- Cover Japanese gaming news.
- Summary of news. To the point and include only mainstream news.
- Lots of screenshot of new games.

Cons:
- Way too slow. It only update every couple days, maybe only once or twice a week. News get stale.

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