I generally went to Gamespot. Before the whole mess happened. Rarely go there, not because of the incident but because they seem rather bland nowadays.
After that I decided to just glance through Kotaku, Joystiq, GT, 1UP, and Destructoid while reading the Giant Bomb blog.
Posted a bit on Destructoid, but eventually found it a bit too cynical and mean spirited. The cum and jizz jokes on the podcast got old too. Way to much community competition, if you post a C-Blog with a topic that was already on someone elses blog a couple hours earlier (usually cause you missed it), a lot of people talk a bunch of shit at you directly. I got swept into that (and am ashamed of it) and at one point decided it wasn't good for mental health.
I loved all the 1UP podcasts, until it got ripped apart. They exists as fragments here and there on several different sites but its not the same anymore. Area 5 is very good but I do wish they cut the iPhone crap, $5 Cellphone games don't make it a gaming platform, especially when they are mostly clones of other existing games.
That whole GS incident made me look at all gaming sites as a whole rather than focusing on one. I do spend more time on GB though, the content here is... Well, as Jeremy Clarkson put it, "It's SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!"
I have to say that I did as well. I still go to other websites though, but my big one use to be GameSpot, but once the people started to leave, I left.
My lurking days go back to old school gamefaqs. Spent several years bouncing between that and Gamespot, though I never really used the GS side of their forums. Like many others, I stayed fairly current with the guys and gals at Gamespot. I remember Greg and Carrie leaving to go become developers and a few new faces popping in and out but I still loved much of the core staff at GS. I actually didn't realize that Jeff had been fired until a few days after the fact, though I remember all the K&L ads around the site. I stayed around GS long enough to watch Ryan, Brad, and Alex leave before I called it quits. I think what really made me hate CNET more than anything was Alex's blog status that made some kind of reference to being in SimCity and having someone throw all the disasters at him. I've been around GB since late beta/early "official" launch and never looked back.
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