The Following Gaming Sites Fail At Sharing 0

by Adam Blue • Editorial

If you’re one of the many (thanks) followers of BlueGamer on Twitter or Facebook, you know you get regular, interesting news from the video game industry. Most of that is thanks to gaming sites that include sharing options in their articles. For some reason it has slowly gone away, and I’m not sure why. It would only benefit these sites by possibly getting new viewers that stumble upon mine – or others’ – tweets. It has come to a point where it is difficult for me to do this. I used to just click a button or two and there’s a headline and link to the article. Now, with the absence of said functions, I’d have to type out the headline and create a link. Yeah, that shouldn’t be too big of a deal but I think it would make it easier for everyone if these tools were never removed in the first place.

Game Informer – They’ve got Facebook, but it’s limiting. Phil Kollar has told me they are working on the sharing tools, so they get a pass for now.

Kotaku – They’ve got a tweet option – but I don’t like Kotaku. Articles tend to be written with certain intentions in mind, and as good of a writer as Stephen Totilo is, I can’t help but think he has little clue on what he’s writing about. Apparently he just played Doom for the first time. I dunno…

Joystiq – This was my go-to guy. Ping.fm is mandatory as it shares with both Twitter and the Bluegamer.net facebook Fan Page. They removed all sharing functions except for “like” for Facebook. That is seriously lame. Their sibling, Engadget, has a nice tweet link at the bottom of their articles, and like Kotaku, it brings up a window with the text so you could edit it before initializing the tweet. I’m still baffled at why Joystiq removed these functions in the first place…

GiantBomb – I think the community here sucks as talked about on the Bluecast. Sucky doesn’t stop there, as the tweet links only work sometimes. And when they do, they aren’t set to auto-shorten URL’s, so you might as well create the tweet yourself.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun – Awesome for gaming news…but it’s only PC. They have the sharing thing going on correctly, but Twitter as the only option sucks. Again, Ping.fm is mandatory for me. I don’t mind copying the twitter link and pasting it into my Ping.fm Chrome extension, but still…

Let me know if I’ve missed any sites. These are just what I find when looking for news. N4G…you never know if it’s real, so I just avoid. If any of these sites are interested, Bluegamer.net has a neat sharing function, similar to what Joystiq used to have.

I will repeat, BlueGamer.net has the greatest sharing function in the gaming-blogsphere. Let’s just hope that helps me out in some way…

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