David on 19/2/2007 at 18:08
We have an RSS bot which currently creates topics in the BioShock and Dark Messiah forum based on keywords that we assign it.
At the moment the only RSS feed it uses is ComputerAndVideoGames.com which, to be honest, sucks as it very slow at posting news items. A good eighty percent of the news items it posts have already been posted by you lot.
I like the feature, so I would like you to recommend gaming news feeds that you use that post news items about the games we cover.
The Spec:
* Has news items about the current / upcoming games we cover.
* RSS2.0. RSS0.91 is not suitable and the bot doesn't currently support Atom feeds.
* Utilises the <content:encoded> tag so the threads are nicely formatted. This gets auto-converted to BBCode.
* Does not lag far behind larger news sites such as Blues News and Shack News
* Is not prone to posting unverified rumour as fact.
Thanks!
Schattentänzer on 19/2/2007 at 22:06
Hmm, while not directly news feeds, maybe adding Gamasutra and The Escapist might be worth it?
TheOutrider on 25/2/2007 at 06:46
While Escapist is a nice and amusing read most of the time, I'm not sure if I'd call them a "news" site - more of a mostly news-unrelated collection of editorials on gaming.
I'd suggested Kotaku before - while being excessively opinionated and polarised, they've gone off their habit of posting rumours without stating it's a rumour from what I've seen recently. However, I have no idea about what format the feed is in, and I can't find this content:encoded tag you're talking about in its XML source (I don't have much of a clue about the internal structure of RSS feeds though, so I might be overlooking something obvious). They also have ads in the full content feed.
Same holds true for 1up, which also seem to have a reputation of being on the slow side of things. And their layout is a terrible, terrible mess.
Joystiq have an RSS2 feed, but again I have no idea about content:encoded, and they're definitely a bit slow on the uptake.
scumble on 25/2/2007 at 10:32
One could try Destructoid. I've found their feed to be informative and verifiable.
The main problem, it seems to me is duplication perhaps. If the rssbot is scanning a bunch of feeds, will it have some idea whether it's picking up the same story from different sources?
