After rolling my eyes one more time, I finally removed yet another gaming website’s RSS feed from my reader, leaving me now only with two total to check regularly: the official Playstation blog being one, and from the always awesome Ars, Opposable Thumbs.
When I first got my PS3 a while back, I just googled for “PS3 news” or something like that, grabbed the first ten sites that popped up, put the domains in my feed reader, and went from there. I immediately killed off the ones that had trimmed feeds, and as time went on, I just deleted the ones that were getting stupid. Opposable Thumbs, however, never showed up in my original list, and while they do have partial feeds, the content is usually excellent so it’s worth overlooking (still annoying, though).
I could go into a big sphiel about the details of why I got rid of all my feeds … but I think I’ll just sum it up into two lists of what I do want to read, and what I’m not interested in.
Would like to see:
- What new games are coming out for the PS3
- When they are coming out
- Game trailers
- Interviews with studios, developers
This is the stuff that I really don’t care about:
- Why X console is better than Y console: the CEO press release smackdown, lulz
- Market takes a dip on Japanese-only title in Japan
- Some Nameless Studio lays off 13 people
- Console sales for this week in Europe, Asia and the Upper Congo
That pretty much sums it up. I’m willing to admit that my search skills suck, as I’ve known this for a long time, but the thing that bothers me the most is I really have no idea what games are coming out or when, which is primarily what I’m interested in. I guess I just need a “new releases” feed. Honestly, the only time I would hear it from the feeds about a game being released was when they started talking about the patches.
Can I be the only one who wants stuff this simple?