Giant Bomb - great coverage, funny, not problematic. wide range of content, amazing chemistry, two awesome podcasts plus game mess mornings

Jeff Grubb - he brought me over to GB. the man. watch him and GB cover SGF and you’ll get it. man is talented and so charismatic. hes also got a couple more pods on his personal channel with known menace Mitch Minotti

∆honestly cant sing praise for these two enough

Noclip - AMAZING docs, great pod with passionate hosts.

Minnmax - just turned onto them recently after GB had some of them on the couch at SGF. good takes, nice people.

used to be really into spawncast and it’s member’s channels. not as much recently. spawnwave is still great but some of the group is overly negative which can be very grating over time. they do have good chemistry, still catch the pod sometimes. - that being said, spawnwave’s 20 min morning news digests aren’t a bad watch while you’re waking up and getting caffenated in the morning

Nate the Hate & MVG - part of the spawncast but they also do their own pod. Mature discussion of news and industry topics. MVG has a long history in the modding scene and is an active dev. Nate is some sort of insider, he protects his identity but i would imagine he’s in the industry. despite the name, he’s not overly negative.

~~there are def a few more but these are the ones that came to mind immediately. might add more as they come to me ~similar kinda thing but about content more geared towards entertainment i.e. dunkey, thorhighheels might be fun to do in the future

  • giant_smeegEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    I’m in the UK, so some of this might be UK centric:

    Podcasts

    • Digital Foundry Weekly, Weekly podcast discussing gaming news/hardware etc (If you know DF you know what this is)
    • The Crate and Crowbar, PCGamerUK used to have a podcast and these guys move to this. Few friends talking about games and it’s decent (not overly technical or in depth, more just mates chatting).
    • IGN UK Podcast, absolutely love the personalities on this, it seems more like some mates chatting with a bit of structure (less like the IGN ethos of pushing as much out as possible).
    • VGC, Again a few mates chatting about games, good production values and I value their opinions.

    RSS feeds

    • Eurogamer.net features, similar to DF, but they cover decent articles about games.
    • Uppercut - Features, doesn’t post often but has well thought out articles about games and they’re a joy to read.
    • Polygon - Feature, interesting articles about films/games. I don’t read them all just ones interesting or relevant to me.
    • Rock Paper Shotgun features, PC Gaming articles that explores interesting questions about newer/popular games.
    • IGN Feed, All the feeds above are features where it’s not just regurgitated news that spams your feed, they’re well thought out. Well IGN isn’t features, it’s just gaming news. I hardly read the artcles, just scroll the titles.
    • Conningemu@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      A bit related but do you like using RSS? I’ve never used it before because it never seemed like it was worth setting up. Do you recommend it/ is it worth it?

      • giant_smeegEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Yes I love it.

        Pick all your favourite news/content/podcasts/youtube and set them up in an RSS app.

        Then it’s all in one place, no visiting multiple apps/websites. It’s just there ready to go. You can then easily keep track of what you’ve read, haven’t read and saved.

    • peasinspace@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      first off, beautiful formatting! Jeff Grubb of current Giant Bomb has Andy Robinson from VGC on his morning show pretty frequently, I enjoy him. I do catch DF content and pods time to time as well.

      I’ve never set up an RSS feed but might look into it, something to scroll on the can/ when i have a few mins of downtime would be nice. google’s served articles arent cutting it. Left the thing that previously filled this gap behind a few months ago.

      • giant_smeegEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Definitely setup RSS. Can just keep everything in one place. Lemmy, YouTube and Mastodon also support RSS feeds