Podcast, word of mouth, magazines, Reddit Lemmy?
Lemmy mostly, and occasionally friends
Steam tells me about new releases that are in my area of interest. I’m mostly into multiplayer games so there are a few of us who keep an eye out and talk about upcoming games and stuff so it’s not just up to me.
Video games?
I watch “let’s game it out” on YouTube a lot and every so often he plays a game where I’m like “ooo that looks really fun”. Currently playing cities skylines and loving it.
Also steam sales.
My son. I see him playing stuff when he has his laptop on the kitchen table.
Me: “What’s that?”
Him, knowing what I’m getting at: “Meh. It’s not very good. I’m probably going to return it. There’s no mods.”
“No mods” is probably his number one reason for giving up on games.
I don’t follow any game news or anything. I like going through my queues on Steam though. Then I go to the recently released demos to see if anything looks interesting.
There were a few I tried after seeing reccommendations on Lemmy too.
I also used to browse indiedb.com a lot.