I keep 4 tabs open, ign, gamespot, kotaku and vgc, then scrolling down to n4g on vgc and i rarely miss much.

Sometimes I use IGN (slow sometimes when it comes to news), but like someone else said, they also cover a vast array of other entertainment (e.g., tv and movie reviews). I do recommend visiting the comment section if you wanna get a good laugh, though.

use a news aggregator like N4G - then you get news fro most or all of the sites mentioned plus many more- the only downside I can think of is you might have to pick through some of the less professional sites that post stories to N4G but you can start ignoring them or at least getting a better ide who to trust after a while

I'm not a member but I like Kotaku

Twitter, just follow a bunch of new sites and developers/publishers themselves

NeoGAF, N4G and follow the right people on twitter like Lite Agent, shinobi602 or David Gibson (there are probably better ones, I don't use twitter that much).

GI usually get most things first. We'd b #1 if our users would stop making doom threads, and get back to gathering info for the site.

Well if you have a brain, all of them. You're smart enough to know what and what not to believe.

I like to use Kotaku, Gonintendo, and VGchartz for news. Carlz PC thread is pretty awesome for PC news.

Multiple. Don't visit a single site exclusively.

I routinely check IGN, Destructoid, and Siliconera. IGN has pretty extensive coverage and gets a lot of exclusive stories, but they tend to present everything in a positive light and rarely seriously critique games. I find most of their reviewers incapable of true analysis of game design. Destructoid articles are heavily biased, but that's why they're useful. You don't just get news, you get an opinion. But they also have their bad eggs. Siliconera is sort of the opposite of that -- for the most part, they present the news, uncontaminated by opninions. Their greatest strength is also their weakness: Siliconera almost exclusively covers the Japanese side of the industry. Their coverage of gaming is extremely limited because of this, but there is very little overlap between the stories you'll find there and the ones you'll find on other sites. One of my biggest pet peeves with IGN is their reluctance to post news about games that haven't been outright confirmed for release in America -- and, sometimes, even about Japanese games that are definitely coming West. DToid is somewhere in the middle.