Top 5 Upcoming Gaming Sites

RKRigney | September 04, 2008 | Top List | Company Misc

There are a ton of websites dedicated to gaming out there. SlapStic.com presents a list of five of some of the best of the best that you might not have heard of. All five are well worth checking out.

GameGrep is fairly easy to describe: similar to Digg but exclusively for video games. Yes, gamers, no longer do you have to wade through hundreds of articles worshipping Barack Obama in order to get to your social gaming news. Unlike Digg, this site has a fairly small community, and every article posted is guaranteed a chance to hit the top 10. That's because every single article that gets the necessary three approvals goes directly to the front page of the site. A lot of otherwise undiscovered articles get fairly popular here, and it's a great place to find all the week's interesting gaming news all on one page. The mods are EXTREMELY picky about what sort of articles get approved on the site, which can be taken as both a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because filler garbage never makes it to the front page, but it's sometimes an annoyance for submitters. I've had to argue my case several times in order to get an article approved, which is really just too much to go through. The community is standard-fare for a video games site, which is to say that there's quite a bit of flaming and bickering that goes on in the comments, but that's unavoidable on the internet. I'm actually extremely interested to see if this article gets accepted onto the site, since I'm giving my honest opinion on it. Regardless, GameGrep is probably the single best gaming-based social news site on the internet, so I suggest you go make an account now.

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Enhance | September 05, 2008

GameGrep being at #5 ftw.
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  Storm | September 05, 2008
  
  I'd rather it be #1, but top 5 isn't so bad, either.
  
  Haha, exaggerate on 'EXTREMELY' picky. xD
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TwilightPrince | September 05, 2008

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The mods are EXTREMELY picky about what sort of articles get approved on the site, which can be taken as both a good thing and a bad thing. ... but it's sometimes an annoyance for submitters. I've had to argue my case several times in order to get an article approved, which is really just too much to go through.
Huh?
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  Avalith | September 05, 2008
  
  I believe he's referring to a discussion I had with him about an earlier submission that was deleted.
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    RKRigney | September 05, 2008
    
    not the only time it's happened.
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  chautemoc | September 05, 2008
  
  I second this "huh", I find it pretty lax overall. If its getting sent to RE, its getting sent there for good reason, almost always..
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  tidus04 | September 05, 2008
  
  I never knew we was fussy as some poor artical's do slip through now and then tbh.
  
  Though it is great to see GG was evolved in this (H)
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RabidChinaGirl | September 05, 2008

And how are these top 5 sites validated as such?

Personally not a fan of Gamelemon. Their brand of humor strikes me as "trying way too hard." Or maybe it's the fact that one of their bloggers complained about E3 because his hotel was not hospitable, and he was a whiny little snot about LA without realizing it's a business oriented city, and E3 is a business event at the very core. So really, aside from these sites I've never heard of, and Gamelemon being no. 1 (why ARE the top two sites so random?), GameGrep is, to me, the most valid entry on that list (side note, GG is Neoseeker's sister-site).

Stricter approval standards might help GG become a bit more refined, though.

To be fair, you aren't exactly specifying news sites (though the selections seem to vary in focus). Just video game sites to visit in case you are that bored.
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SSJ3 Trunks | September 05, 2008

Upcoming? GG has been here for over a year now.
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  Euphoric | September 06, 2008
  
  But it has hardly been a big site up until recently has it? Only lately has the activity really started to pick up to a level that can be considered busy.
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    chautemoc | September 06, 2008
    
    Still, there's a difference between 'upcoming' and 'up and coming.' I suppose he meant the latter.
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    SSJ3 Trunks | September 07, 2008
    
    Hm..Yeah thats true but still...didn't quite make sense.
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Capn Droid | September 06, 2008

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Regardless, GameGrep is probably the single best gaming-based social news site on the internet, so I suggest you go make an account now.
Hm. Quite.
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Final Blade | September 06, 2008

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Regardless, GameGrep is probably the single best gaming-based social news site on the internet, so I suggest you go make an account now.
_{You know whats funny and ironic about this statement is? Its the fact he touts it as the single best gaming social news on the net, yet it gets 5. Last time I check single best meaning its number one.

lol I laughed at the whole gamegrep thing. The mods aren't picky, if anything they're probably more lax and simple when it comes to news. As for community and the bashing in the comments, whats the hell did you expect? Nice hippy atmosphere? I mean while people would love all that and shit, its the internet and you're going to get many people with different views on things which we won't always see eye to eye.

Gamegrep should honestly be number one out of those lists.}
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  Avalith | September 06, 2008
  
  Well we're picky with people like you.
  
  I do agree with you, however if you take a look at the other sites GameGrep is really the only social news site on that list, so there's not any hypocrisy there although it does call into question how they view social news sites...
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    Final Blade | September 07, 2008
    
    _{I see, but isn't Social News site supposed to be better in the end? Instead of garbage Diggs has that is so broad then gaming sites. And since the title is referring to gaming sites, and this is purely a gaming news site, shouldn't we be number one?
    
    Its cool Avalith, I still like you.}
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      RKRigney | September 07, 2008
      
      Nah, because there are community members like you here.
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      Final Blade | September 07, 2008
      
      _{Huh?
      
      That has no relevance to my questions to Avalith.}