Even if you don't like Penny Arcade, check out Penny Arcade Report

[Dark Jaguar]

I know that some here aren't fans of the Penny Arcade comic (and today's offering seems like a case lesson in exactly why, I really don't get it).

That said, Penny Arcade Report http://penny-arcade.com/report/ is some of the best game news reporting I've seen in a loooong time.

I've been abandoning one "gaming news" site after another as, one by one, they all lose all sense of journalistic integrity. IGN has long since been in the gutter, and sites like 1Up have followed them. I tried Joystiq and Kotaku for a while, but both of those are pretty poor these days. Until now, I've basically been limited to a few out of the way fan forums and Arstechnica's gaming news if I wanted something resembling actual journalism.

It seems that sites like Kotaku and such have been letting go of their talented journalists as they have "restructured to actualize modern commerce paradigms" (ie, sell out). Penny Arcade picked them up and set them to work on some the best news reporting I've seen in gaming.

Check this article: http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/t...ing-and-no It's an opinion piece done right.

I'd check out all their news. I've been making it one of my go-to stops lately for gaming news and so far it has been great.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, the gradual degradation of quality, and quantity, of content at the major game review/news sites has been notable, and just seems to be increasing in speed (of collapse). For instance sites like Gamespy and 1up are being shut down, and there aren't really sites rising to replace them, either. And IGN is a shadow of what it was ten years ago, too, with less staff, fewer articles, and less relevance. And sites like Kotaku, Joystiq, and Polygon are not exactly great replacements, to say the least...

So yeah, I probably get most news now from forums, Neogaf first but also some others. I'd read portal sites more if they were better, like they used to be... but they're not.

(As for the various scandals and issues the sites have, unfortunately that stuff has always been around in this industry; the gaming press has always been far too easy for companies to ... influence. With money.)