Is anyone using N4G as a source of news?

[aphoristic gamer]

It's good at times but very often it gets cluttered with an endless stream of lame top 10s (top 10 game characters who need to get laid, I shit you not!) and features. Also, whenever there is a huge news you get articles from countless fanboy sites that each put their own spin. Be also prepared for links to reviews of major games from hundreds of different sites.

What I like far less is the amount of conjecture posted as fact, or explicitly suggested when most of the time it has absolutely no ground. Look at that (http://n4g.com/ps3/News-173483.aspx).

Sony announces that Wipeout HD is delayed due to a tricky technical issue, and some random fansite pulls some speculation out of their ass and claims that it's because the game causes seizures. What the hell? And there are countless stories such as this.

If n4g is a mere gaming news hub and is not to blame instead of all the gaming sites out there that it links to, then the web is in a pretty sad state.

[Other Brendan]

[cliche stuff about voting with your clicks and not visiting the site if you don't agree with the way it covers the news]

Ultimately readers get the media they deserve.

[Kunikos]

I'm scared that I read that as "voting with your dicks."

[gordonrumble]

I skim neogaf every couple days, it's the fastest gaming news aggregator I can think of.

[Lum]

There are SO MANY good writers out there, even on video games, that I don't have time for the mediocre stuff.

Lately I read Rock Paper Shotgun and Fidgit daily (along with some genre-specific blogs) and follow links to other recommendations.

[Troy S Goodfellow]

What Lum said. Evotab lets me pick and choose which headlines to skim, but there are precious few that I read daily no matter if the headlines look interesting or not because the writing is worth the wade.

Glaring examples of mediocrity are often brought to my attention eventually. At least those examples of mediocrity for which I am not personally responsible.

Troy

[aphoristic gamer]

Well I've viewed the sites you guys suggested that I didn't know of (I can't bear GAF for even a minute), and I liked Fidgit the most. Bonus points for Tom! N4G's consistent misinformation was getting old, though maybe I'll be forced to keep lurking it sporadically as I'm always afraid of missing a significant niche japanese game announcement or two and they do report on them.

That Rock Paper Shotgun is nice too, I've been out of the loop on hardcore pc gaming for a while now.

[Equis]

All I need for news is Fidgit, RPS and Qt3

All I need for commentary is Fidgit, GWJ, RPS and Qt3

There are many more things to read that the endless parroting cycle of game journalism.

[Sol Invictus]

I use N4G on occasion, but it's been plagued by a recent spate of uninformative reposts of old news by self-advertising gaming 'news' sites. I don't mind the blogs, since they're opinionated and it's fun to read those, but the general news sites just reposting news from other news websites and submitting them as news instead of using the 'alternate source' function just clogs the website with trash.

I stick to QT3, Fidgit and RPS for features and VE3D and Shacknews for hype, trailers and screenshots. Kotaku's way too slow and their reposts (without credit, mind you) of Joystiq and Shacknews articles is getting old. I don't give a shit about all their "Maximum Risky" nonsense.