How do gaming sites stay up to date with whats going on?
Question by thegeeza: How do gaming sites stay up to date with whats going on?
I own my own gaming site and it’s been a little quiet recently. My question is:
How do large gaming sites like GameSpot and IGN keep up to date with the latest games?
I want to write articles on the latest games and stuff, however it’s so time consuming looking at there sites for whats coming. Surely GameSpot and IGN get this info first hand from the gaming companies themselves. If so how would I go about receiving this info too.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Best answer:
Answer by HyperSpeed
Im not 100% on this but maybe they sign up for game stores weekly news letter.
This is an interesting question.
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two reasons, 1 the game companies pay them 2 they have alot of employees. i have no idea how you’d get this info too. maybe look at their site
They have employees, hundreds of them
Plus big companies like gamespot get the info because the game companies know they will get a ton of free advertisements. So unless you getting a million hits a day the companies wont help you out.
your best bet is to build a wordpress blog and then use lots of rss feed to update your site with info from other blogs. This will cut down a lot fo the mundane stuff and you can focus on specific blog posts.
You would have to contact there publicist. I have no clue how you would get in touch with them short of contacting the company directly and asking them. Most people go to the game shows and get contacts there aswell, a both hosted by a company will know how to put press people in touch with the right people within there company.
You could also try emailing the heads of some of the smaller sites and asking them for a contact list but I doubt they would give it to you. Your best bet may be just reading them daily and stealing there stories, quite a few do this. As much as I love kotaku.com its not uncommon for there stories to site another sites as there sole source.
you have to start by spending the time and getting the information out there as fast as possible try working straight through the gaming companys and not through a middle man like IGN places like http://www.aeriagames.com announce there new games to there community b4 it reaches mainstream I.E. IGN or GameSpot i wouldnt put it past them to say there part of that community for that same reason . Hit up acclaims , avalanche , bioware these website most of the time will have a private mailing list of course your competition is most likely on these mailing list as well but youll have the same advantages at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_companies this is a link to wikipedia list of game companys hit all of them up and see what you can get IGN didnt start out as a huge website but just like yours, Good luck with the site hope i was helpful