Essential Game Reading for Runners

In the movie Logan’s Run, an entire society lives within a big domed city and are taught to believe nothing exists beyond the walls that contain them. This type of sheltered reality is similar to staffing a booth at the E3 convention, where all of your insight about what is transpiring just mere feet away is obtained from those who unwittingly cross the threshold into your kiosk-inhabited domicile. One major difference is that Logan didn’t have access to a PDA and that gamers don’t get “renewed” when they turn 30 (except for reporters, who are re-born at CrispyGamer). While there are many popular gaming sites that provide the E3 news that game fans are looking for - and by “news” I mean photos of booth babes - they still require actually visiting their sites. Whereas when I’m working the show floor - and by “working” I mean shouting game details at media and hoping one out of ten words is heard - I need the news to come to me. Among my favorite digital newsletters are Edge Daily, MCV, Dean Takahashi’s VentureBeat stories (which always arrive with a tidy TinyURL), and GameDailybiz. Well, it was GameDailyBiz, until it entered the carousel (yes, that’s another Logan’s Run reference).

Fortunately, it has been renewed in the form of IndustryGamers. Under this new name, Editor-in-Chief James Brightman – who is not an advertiser, nor I would guess a reader of this blog - continues to be an invaluable provider of news for the gaming community. So if you’re a runner (yes, it’s another LR reference, so don’t act surprised) and you need your gaming news on the go, then subscribing to these four providers is a great way to ensure you don’t end up behind the times like Jefferson Davis Collie III (Hah! That was a Land of the Lost reference).

- Chase