About RecapFeed

RecapFeed is a fast, auto-refreshing front page for gaming. It pulls news, releases, reviews and videos from public feeds and APIs into one place, so you can see what's happening at a glance — without bouncing between a dozen sites.

The Recap

The signature feature. RecapFeed remembers when you last visited — entirely in your own browser, no account needed — and highlights what's new since then. Come back whenever; it catches you up.

How it works

Every couple of hours a pipeline gathers from public sources, de-duplicates, filters out commerce and off-topic noise, and publishes a single data file the site reads. A curation pass (AI-assisted) drops anything off-topic the filters miss and writes the daily Today brief. The page itself is static and ships almost no JavaScript, so it loads fast and stays out of your way. For the full picture — every source, how dates are verified, and exactly where AI fits — see how we source & verify.

Where the data comes from

News, reviews & videos — RSS from gaming outlets (IGN, Eurogamer, GameSpot, Push Square, Nintendo Life and many more) plus YouTube channels; every item links back to its original source. Release dates, developer, publisher and genre — cross-referenced across Steam, RAWG, Wikidata and Wikipedia's per-year release lists, so no single source is taken on its own. Cover art comes from Steam and SteamGridDB.

Accuracy & corrections

Release dates come from public data and shift often. Each game's page shows which source its date came from and when the page was last refreshed — but always confirm with the publisher before planning around a date. Spotted a wrong date or detail, or want to get in touch? Reach Ben via benford.co.nz and it'll get fixed.

Credits

Headlines, scores and images belong to their original sources, linked on every item. RecapFeed isn't affiliated with any outlet it aggregates.

Who made it

RecapFeed is built and maintained by Ben Ford, a New Zealand web developer. More at benford.co.nz.

Why I built it

I built RecapFeed for myself first. Keeping up with games had turned into a slog — scrolling social feeds where the actual news is buried between everything else, landing on sites so packed with ads and autoplay video that the story feels like an afterthought, and wading through piles of stuff I didn't care about to reach the bit I did. I just wanted gaming news, cleanly, in one place I could glance at and get on with my day.

The releases side came from a more specific itch. I could never get a straight answer to what's actually coming out, and when? — the kind you need to plan what to buy — with dates scattered across store pages and half-remembered trailers. So I built the calendar I wished existed: one honest list of what's on the way, each game with its own page that quietly gathers the news and videos as launch approaches. If RecapFeed saves you the same bouncing around, that's the whole point.