UK Gaming Websites

[MYstIC G]

Other than FreddysHouse, do you guys recon that there are any "good" UK Gaming sites out there anymore?

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Unless its a gaming-network / guild website, I can't really think of anything, no. I would also be interested to know of any.

 

[SilverHood]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun: and would you call them "Gommy"? is pretty damn good. It's mostly staffed by the better writers from PC Gamer UK.

 

[Ch3tan]

We've not been a gaming website since BW.

 

[MYstIC G]

Your current title is so very well deserved sometimes, useful ****

 

[Mabs]

wireplay is still around in a somewhat diminished form

god that dates me :\

 

[PLightstar]

Fileplay is still around as part of multiplay's gaming network. There's a UK version of the Gamespot site and Gamesradar has got alot better recently but the site is a bit flashy and in your face for my taste. My clan (Total Oblivion) is trying to get one going but its getting us to write articles on regular basis that is holding us back.

 

[Dreamor]

wireplay is still around in a somewhat diminished form

god that dates me :\

Really? Thats a name I've not seen about for a very long time. I remember a friend and I playing on Wireplay during the great dial up internet days (high ping please! )

 

[MYstIC G]

Wireplay's got no content. Gamespot and Gamesradar aren't what I'd consider UK tbh. This is sort of where I was getting to myself. I'm finding it hard to find anything "UK" that isn't just empty/dead

 

[DaGaffer]

Wireplay's got no content. Gamespot and Gamesradar aren't what I'd consider UK tbh. This is sort of where I was getting to myself. I'm finding it hard to find anything "UK" that isn't just empty/dead

Gamesradar is definitely UK. Its Future Publishing. And there's Eurogamer and escapist as well (worth it for Zero Punctuation).

 

[ST^]

Eurogamer generally has good writing, but the reviews themselves... ugh. Scores that don't match the review text, review text that doesn't describe the game, sometimes they barely play the game.

Their Demon's Souls review (Demon's Souls Review | PS3 | Eurogamer) was spot on, though it wasn't by a staff writer.

 

[Tom]

Its more than ten years since I signed onto BW.

Ten fucking years of reading Trem's disasters.

 

[Dreamor]

MYstIC G, didn't get to speak to the guys at work (Games Marketing) but most of the sites we communicate to are outside of the UK it seems, from looking at the list of sites we speak to (Eurogamer etc)

Perhaps Freddyshouse could move in to that market?

 

[Dark Orb Choir]

i read that as gay ming

 

[MYstIC G]

Well this isn't about FH so much, just my own curiosity of what's happened. There used to be plenty of sites to choose from before but everything now seems to have fizzled out quite a lot. If you could ask though Dreamor I'd be quite intrigued.

 

[Ono]

NTSC-uk.com Forums - Powered by vBulletin

http://www.ntsc-uk.com/

 

[nath]

Another vote for RPS - I'm surprised you don't already follow it, assuming of course you don't already follow it.

 

[Moriath]

gamespot the uk part of it ?

 

[Yaka]

ntsc-uk and eurogamer and to some xtent avf, bitech are about it for the uk, theres kotaku but thats usa based i think but covers rest of the world more. alot of other sites frm back in the day are now corprate owned and the reviewers of games/hardware seem to "toe the line" alot more. and the fact there are some totaly anal moderators on soem gaming or hardware related forums



tho i have been thinking alot of doing what i did on bw gather links to what i think is ok or worthy of reading ( ot what peeps pm me on irc) and slap it on the news page with all its typ0 glory. tho then i realise its almost 3am i needs to be awake by 6, old habits ide hard

 

[nath]

old habits ide hard

You should upgrade those habits to sata mate, much more efficient.

 

[MYstIC G]

Yaka, if you wanna do the newsie thing I've always been happy to go through the posts afterwards. Let me know if you've got access to post in that forum and just e-mail me what you want checked (PM me if you've not got my e-mail addy and I'll give it to ya).

 

[Will]

If someone wants to give me xbox games, I'll review* them.




*Play them, and write a haiku about them

 

[Ch3tan]

I wish to see your skill Will, write us a haiku about boderlands!

 

[FuzzyLogic]

I've heard it's quite good
Not bought a copy yet though
May do when it's cheap.

 

[Will]

Pandora Winter.
Questing to open up
mystery vault

 

[Ch3tan]

So while you are being so accommodating....... run a winter wolf game Will

 

[Will]

Heh.

I need Teedles to remind me what my rule ideas were, and to make the pictures I asked of him.

 

[Ch3tan]

Leave teedles to me *flexes*

 

[Will]

I'd search through my PMs myself, but I have 3884 in my inbox at the moment.

 

[MYstIC G]

That's why e-mail is superior tbh. Chet, Teedles wants to play killing floor later tonight, I shall savage him. Hopefully he PM'd you.