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Ain't It Cool Announces Game Site

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the busting-out dept.

Remik writes "Harry and the folks over at Ain't It Cool News are looking to do for video games what they've already done for cinema. The announcement is not exactly well received by Gabe and Tycho at Penny Arcade. Great, another place to go complain about Duke Nukem not being out yet." AIC has been a neat site for movies, it'll be interesting to see how well their expertise extends to games.

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  1. Like Fat Babies then? by eddy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some competition for Fat Babies then...

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  2. There's already a superior choice... by imac.usr · · Score: 5, Informative
    For a real movie scoops & news page with an accompanying gaming site, check out Coming Attractions and their sister site, Test Pattern. It's been up for several months already (CA has been around for over six years), features timely reviews of the latest games, and best of all, both are actually designed to be readable by humans instead of Harry Knowles wannabes.

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    1. Re:There's already a superior choice... by imac.usr · · Score: 4, Informative
      My bad. Test Pattern is the TV site. Lost Hours is the gaming site.

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    2. Re:There's already a superior choice... by TyrionEagle · · Score: 4, Informative

      I love Coming Attractions for movie news, but the best place I have found for games is SPOnG they have excellent daily news. For example, they broke the story about Microsoft buying Rare!
      The game reviews tend to be a bit flat, but the size of the content is fantastic and it's updated every day.

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    3. Re:There's already a superior choice... by Billobob · · Score: 1, Informative

      Also, Rotten Tomatoes typically has good review ratings compared to the singular critics.

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  3. Another informative web site by miketo · · Score: 2, Informative

    AICN can be useful but it's often to get the gold from the dross. Coming Attractions is also a good site. If you'd like a good site with excellent reviewers, message boards and informed folks from both sides of the screen, try http://www.chud.com. I've been going there for a couple years now and the folks never fail to provide insight into movies and trends. The message boards aren't nearly as shrill as AICN, so you can actually discuss movies without engaging in "You suck!" arguments with some fanboy.

  4. Re:AICN is crap. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    Getting invited to a lot of sci-fi conventions and one appearance on "Politically Incorrect" is not famous. Ask 20 people on the street who Harry Knowles is, and they won't have a clue.

    A fat slob of a geek did get famous for his small web site that became much bigger than he had ever hoped... but his name is Matt Drudge, not Harry Knowles.

  5. Re:some thoughts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    For one, video games bring in much more money.


    They do? Yes, I've heard that the gross for games sold exceeded box-office by a piddly amount (well, piddly in comparison, something like 7.6 billion vs. 7.7), but that doesn't include rentals, home DVD/VHS releases or overseas. The total isn't even close, not yet anyway...

  6. Why? by Angry+Black+Man · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why would anyone go to an AIC when there are hundreds of better sites ?

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  7. Re:some thoughts by MisterFancypants · · Score: 4, Informative
    The movie industry is different from the video game industry.

    This is widely reported... and wrong. Yes, the entire game industry pulls in more than the theater BOX OFFICE of the movie industry. Meaning.... if you don't include video rentals, video sales, pay-per-view and cable fees for showing movies. Also the 'game industry' numbers include sales of console hardware (the actual XBOX, PS2, GCN, GBA, etc sales) whereas the movie industry does NOT include sales of movie-related consumer electronics (DVD players, VCRs, etc).

    Just sayin'

  8. Yeah, what about them? by dswensen · · Score: 3, Informative
    Kasparov beats Big Blue 2 (posted yesterday)

    MS SQL Slammer story (posted Saturday)

    Your rant would be more credible if you gave any evidence you actually read Slashdot or were paying any attention at all.

  9. Re:At first I disagreed with Penny Arcade... by Greenrider · · Score: 3, Informative
    Imagine, if RT had a game review site, or, really, meta-review site, you'd get a collection of reviews from a wide range of famous and obscure reviewers, along with links to official websites and freebie "trailers" and desktop pix, etc.

    No reviewer would be ranked higher than any other, so the first-glance-trending would probably not be as skewed. It would give everyone more information in one location, and plenty of obscure reviewers would get their chances at many more eyeballs.


    This exists already, and it's awesome

    They do metareviewing of games and movies, and in my opinion it's one of the most useful sites on the net.
  10. Re:At first I disagreed with Penny Arcade... by jsmthng · · Score: 2, Informative

    They *do*.

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/games/