Top Five Sites For The Thinking Gamer

Andy Chalk

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Top Five Sites For The Thinking Gamer


Paste Magazine has just published its "Top Five Videogame Websites for the Thinking Gamer [http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2008/11/top-5-video-game-websites-for-perspicacious-gamers.html?p=5]" list, and you'll never guess who made the list. (Well, you might.)

The list covers a range of sites, beginning with Crispy Gamer [http://blog.wired.com/games], a new kid on the block, earns props as "a cool swallow of purified water in the irradiated, bone-dry wasteland of the gaming press."

"But wait!" you might be thinking. "That is only four!" Indeed it is, sharp-eyed reader, but be assured that there is a fifth - and you're looking at it.

"If Zero Punctuation [http://escapistmagazine.com/] game critiques, they'd still deserve a spot on this list," the article says. "But there's plenty more to enjoy on the site. A feature story on the homepage-at the time of this writing, anyway-ponders racial identity in the gaming context. How important is it to racial minorities to be accurately represented in the games they play?"

Kinda makes you feel all warm and tingly inside, doesn't it?


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ObadiahBlack

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Dectilon said:
I don't know... I think this only fuels Yathzee's cynism : P
Yahtzee is probably the most likely reason why people come to the site in the first place, but the more curious gamer will probably look around more at what Escapist has to offer, like forums and such.
 

GyroCaptain

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Khell_Sennet said:
In all truth and fairness, Yahtzee may have been what drew me to this site, but he isn't what keeps me here. Good articles, doubly-so considering that most other online magazines are normally only a shell of what print is... A wicked forum with intelligent people (the last remaining brains on earth if going out in public is any indication)... And most of all, news which relates to my hobby, which would never make it in the Journal or Sun, and yet is more relevant to me than what politician diddled who's choirboy.

Yahtzee's just weekly icing on the cake.
^This.
Also, despite being an Aaron Williams fan(thus ostensibly interested in one of the comics there), Crispygamer and I never seemed to hit it off. Maybe it was the way she did her hair, or her taste in music.
 

SaintWaldo

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Game|Life counts as a thinking man's game site only if you consider veiled Nintendo bias and continuous Sony bashing by the editors "thinking". I'm so glad Susan left.
 

SaintWaldo

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
Who would review all the pony games for us?
*hides*
I meant to convey that I was glad she left Game|Life and came here.

Susan Arendt said:
You are so dead to me.
Might I suggest unleashing the dreaded Baby-Eating Dingoes Firmware Update?
 

L.B. Jeffries

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*edit*

Think I'll be more constructive. There are a lot of great blogs that are into thoughtful conversations about games.

www.brainygamer.com is one of my favorite watering holes besides 'The Escapist'.

www.rockpapershotgun.com is a blast and Kieron Gillen's New School of Game Journalism is always interesting to watch in action.

http://versusclucluland.blogspot.com/ is pretty high end games & philosophy stuff if you fancy it.

And, uh, *cough* clicking on my own profile goes to my stuff with my own webzine. *cough*
 

smallharmlesskitten

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You see what this has done? this is horrible! this is madness! this is.....no i refuse to say it

SPARTAAAAAAA! Damn it all! I couldnt resist