Awesome Websites

In a couple of recent entries I mentioned several different websites I liked a lot, and said I'd talk about them more later. Rather than make individual blog posts about each of them, it made more sense to just write one blog that talked about all of my favourites sites on the web. And, you guessed it, that's what this post is.

The Escapist: My favourite video game site on the web, the Escapist is an online community that loves video games with a passion. It's one of the most intelligent places I know in terms of video game discussion (I had a 'wannabe game designer' phase a few years ago), and everybody on the forums is really helpful and funny. They publish weekly e-magazines that are free to read, which cover a wide variety of interesting topics, And they also host a bucket-load of entertaining video series, including Extra Credits (which I've mentioned before, and is a fantastic topical video game show), Zero Punctuation and Escape To The Movies (two of the funniest review series I know of), and Loading Ready Run (A comedy sketch show). It's just fantastic, and if you like video games, there's no place better.

Traveling the Vortex: What's that? I've mentioned I like Doctor Who before? Oh, shut up. Traveling the Vortex is my favourite podcast, and yes, it's about Doctor Who. Run by three American Doctor Who fans, one of whom is a 'Doctor Who newbie', the show reviews Doctor Who stories both New and Classic, and in a highly amusing way. They've also got one of the friendliest fan communities I've ever seen - speaking of which, Vortex guys, surely I get fan points for mentioning you in a blog? Tally 'em up :) - and if you like Doctor Who, you should definitely give them a listen. Just watch out for the Myrka.

Doctor Who TV: Doctor Who has a lot of merchandise, spin offs, etc, so keeping up with all the Doctor Who news out there can be difficult. Fortunately, Doctor Who TV keeps all that news in one place. One of the sites I visit near-daily.

Lost Garden: A fantastic video game blog with lots of interesting essays, and a couple of great games as well.

TARDIS wiki: If wikipedia was purely about Doctor Who, it would be this site. A full-on encyclopedia.

The Cave of Dragonflies: I'm also a fan of the Pokemon video games, and in terms of fansites this is as good as it gets. It's got an absolute lorry-full of interesting facts, thoughts and essays, a brilliant guide on creating fake Pokemon, and also a section of Poke-fanfiction (the best I've ever read).

Doctor Who: Re-Incarnated: Yeah, so I have my own Doctor Who fanseries. It's a work in progress, but what-in-the-hey. Please check it out. I'll talk about it more in a later blog entry.

And that's all for now. I'll admit, this has turned into a bit of a dull list, but I needed to get it done. I hope at least now you've got some great websites to check out.