I usually use IGN to find games and keep updated on them. Once I find a game I want to buy I use gamerankings, metacritic, and IGN, along with user reviews on IGN to decide if I want to buy it. I also use vgchartz.com to see what other people are saying about a game. Most games I buy are pretty easy buys. I've been looking at some PC games lately and since PC gaming is kind of an afterthought here, I've been looking a little closer to make sure I want it, because I hate buying a $40 game and then playing it once and hating it. It's just not worth it.

Gamepro are the coolest review site. Love the news and articles. Gamepro has the best forums and there are no moderators on a power surge who ban people for petty things.

I distrust gamespot i trust ign

i most trust gamerankings but i like ign for the reviews i read front to back.

i hated egm from like 2002ish and beyond. some of the review staff were real assholes.

I trust ign.
They rate games as good as they are and not based on fanbase or platform

Trust: Gamespot's old review system.
Dis: Anything that gives out free 9's and 10's to just about any hyped game.

wow finally something that almost everyone here agrees on :

most of us trust:IGN
Distrust: Gamespot

intresting

They all seem to be rather poor. I use for general information more than reviews. I generaly play with renting to decide for myself then buy.

I use Metacritic and Gamerankings - then select a few high / low reviews and scan them for consistency.

I don't always go to one site nor do I specifically favour/disfavour one site.

I find game reviewing is still somewhat of an 'immature' art so I take reviews with a pinch of salt and adjust the 'score' according to anything odd I spot - for example I saw more than one review of R&C that docked the game for lack of MP, which to me is nonsense - you review the game as it was intended to be (in this case SP only).

Simple stuff like that I see all the time, or games being docked points for being latest version but very polished while games with a lot of money behind them like Halo 3 get perfect scores for the very same stated reason - latest version but very polished!

I also try and look to previews and general internet 'feel' rather than specific reviews too.

For really innovative games I tend to dive in - like it or not I figure I want to try it and give support to developers trying new stuff. So I'll be buying LBP whatever and I bought Patapon in a second even though I was half convinced I'd hate it (I don't thankfully, I think it's great).