Build a gaming news account on X
headlines, patch notes, launch week
Gaming news never stops: release dates, patches, showcases, layoffs, sales. Twenty-one RSS feeds and a 25-line Steam script cover most of it, with no X developer account. GTA 6 launches November 19, so this is the week to start.
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The short answer
Add https://www.gamespot.com/feeds/news/ or another working gaming feed to the OpenTweet RSS connector, write one prompt that turns each headline into a post, and set it to check every 15 minutes. For patch notes, read Steam's keyless GetNewsForApp API for the games you cover and post every new developer announcement to POST https://opentweet.io/api/v1/posts. Write in your own words, name the source, and never repost trailers or leaks.
Gaming accounts already run on OpenTweet. In the last 30 days, more than ten paying accounts posted about games through it: an industry news account ("Xbox sales plunged 33% to their lowest level since the original console launched 25 years ago", GTA 6 PC rumors), restock and deal alerts for Pokemon and Nintendo Switch 2 accessories, and indie developers posting their own devlogs. On Google Trends over the last three months, "gaming news" drew about 12 times the searches of "twitter bot".
Next week: GTA 6 launches on November 19
Grand Theft Auto VI comes out on Thursday, November 19, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with no PC date announced. Reports say it unlocks at midnight local time, starting in New Zealand, and preloads opened around November 9 to 10. Expect review scores when the embargo lifts, then a weekend of impressions, server status and sales news. Set a connector on two fast feeds with a 5-minute check for launch week, and schedule a "GTA 6 is out in New Zealand" post for the moment it unlocks.
Six posts a gaming account runs on
The RSS connector covers headlines and release dates. A small script covers patch notes. Scheduled posts cover launch days and showcases.
Headline
As it breaksThe news in one sentence, game and studio first, with the source. Most of a news account's posts.
Release date
When announcedGame, platforms and date. Gamers bookmark and repost these.
Patch notes
On update dayWhat changed in the update, in two or three lines, with the official link. The script below writes it.
Review roundup
Embargo dayScores from five or six outlets in one post when an embargo lifts.
Deals
Sales weeksA price drop on a game or console, with the store. Needs a link post.
Showcase live posts
Event nightsOne post per announcement during a Direct, State of Play or The Game Awards.
Gaming RSS feeds that work
We requested each feed with the OpenTweet connector's own User-Agent on November 10, 2026. Every one below answered and, apart from the PlayStation Blog, had items from the previous 48 hours. Items is how many the feed returned.
| Source | Feed URL | Items | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| IGN | feeds.feedburner.com/ign/games-all | 20 | Broad; news, reviews and guides mixed |
| GameSpot | gamespot.com/feeds/news/ | 30 | News only, which suits a headline account |
| PC Gamer | pcgamer.com/rss/ | 50 | PC news, hardware and deals; filter deals out |
| Eurogamer | eurogamer.net/feed | 100 | Busy; strong on UK and EU industry news |
| Rock Paper Shotgun | rockpapershotgun.com/feed | 100 | PC games, indies, opinion |
| Video Games Chronicle | videogameschronicle.com/feed/ | 10 | Industry scoops and sales |
| Gematsu | gematsu.com/feed | 20 | Japanese releases and dates; very factual |
| Siliconera | siliconera.com/feed/ | 15 | Japanese and niche games |
| Polygon | polygon.com/rss/index.xml | 10 | Features and news |
| Kotaku | kotaku.com/rss | 20 | News and culture |
| GamesRadar+ | gamesradar.com/rss/ | 50 | Broad, plus film and TV |
| The Verge (games) | theverge.com/rss/games/index.xml | 10 | Atom feed; platform and business news |
| Destructoid | destructoid.com/feed/ | 30 | News and guides |
| Dexerto | dexerto.com/feed/ | 50 | Esports, creators and fast news |
| Insider Gaming | insider-gaming.com/feed/ | 10 | Reports and leaks; say "reportedly" |
| Game Developer | gamedeveloper.com/rss.xml | 50 | Layoffs, studios, business; for an industry account |
| Xbox Wire | news.xbox.com/en-us/feed/ | 10 | Official Xbox and Game Pass news |
| PlayStation Blog | blog.playstation.com/feed/ | 10 | Official; a few posts a week |
| Nintendo Life | nintendolife.com/feeds/latest | 25 | Nintendo and Switch 2 |
| Push Square | pushsquare.com/feeds/latest | 25 | PlayStation news |
| Pure Xbox | purexbox.com/feeds/latest | 25 | Xbox news |
Did not work: Rockstar Newswire has no RSS feed (rockstargames.com/newswire/rss returned 404), and VG247's feed still answers but its newest item is from June 2, 2026. Steam has a feed per game: store.steampowered.com/feeds/news/app/APPID/. More feeds for other beats are in news RSS feeds that work.
Set it up in the RSS connector
Connectors -> New connector -> Blog or newsletter (RSS)
Feed URL: https://www.gematsu.com/feed
Prompt: One post for gamers: the news in one sentence,
game and studio first, then the date or platform
if there is one. Name the source. No hashtags,
no "BREAKING", no rumor stated as fact.
Featured image: off (key art and screenshots are licensed)
Frequency: Every 15 minutes
X account: @yourgamingnewsRunning a single-platform account? Use Nintendo Life, Push Square or Pure Xbox plus the official blog, and add "skip items that are not about Nintendo" to the prompt. Scheduled runs skip items older than 48 hours, and each run posts at most the number of posts you set (1, 5 or 10), so a new connector won't flood the account with last week's news.
A Steam patch notes bot in Python
Reads Steam's news for each game you list, keeps only the developer's own announcements, posts anything from the last 48 hours it hasn't posted, and remembers what it posted. Run it from cron every 30 minutes. We ran it on November 10, 2026 (with the post call swapped for a print and the window widened to 7 days): it found Counter-Strike 2's November 5 update, built the store link, which opened the right news page, and a second run posted nothing.
import os, json, time, pathlib, requests
GAMES = {730: "Counter-Strike 2", 570: "Dota 2", 1245620: "Elden Ring"} # Steam app IDs
OT = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OPENTWEET_API_KEY']}"}
SEEN = pathlib.Path("posted_news.json")
seen = set(json.loads(SEEN.read_text())) if SEEN.exists() else set()
for appid, name in GAMES.items():
news = requests.get(
"https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp/v2/",
params={"appid": appid, "count": 5, "maxlength": 0,
"feeds": "steam_community_announcements"}, # the developer's own posts only
timeout=20,
).json()["appnews"]["newsitems"]
for item in news:
if item["gid"] in seen or time.time() - item["date"] > 2 * 86400:
continue
title = item["title"] if name.lower() in item["title"].lower() else f"{name}: {item['title']}"
url = f"https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/{appid}/view/{item['gid']}"
requests.post("https://opentweet.io/api/v1/posts", headers=OT,
json={"text": f"{title}\n\n{url}", "publish_now": True}).raise_for_status()
seen.add(item["gid"])
SEEN.write_text(json.dumps(sorted(seen)))What it posted
Counter-Strike 2 Update
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/1848557880481353Some studios title every patch the same way ("Counter-Strike 2 Update"). To post what changed, request maxlength=0 (already set), take the first lines of item["contents"] and strip the BBCode tags, or pass the contents to an AI model and ask for a three-line summary. Each post carries a link, so it counts as a link post on your plan.
Find a game's app ID in its store URL. store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/ is Baldur's Gate 3. GetNewsForApp needs no key. Without the feeds filter it also returns press articles about the game, which you don't want to repost as official news.
The rest of 2026 for a gaming account
Dates as reported on November 10, 2026. Schedule the launch-day and showcase posts now and let the connector handle the news around them.
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| Now to Nov 18 | GTA 6 preloads are open for digital pre-orders; review embargo and launch-time stories |
| Wed Nov 18 to Thu Nov 19 | GTA 6 unlocks at local midnight, New Zealand first, on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S |
| Nov 19 to 22 | Launch weekend: first impressions, review scores, server and performance news |
| Fri Nov 27 to Mon Nov 30 | Black Friday and Cyber Monday game and console deals |
| Thu Dec 10 | The Game Awards 2026, Peacock Theater, Los Angeles: winners and world premieres all night |
Plan launch week with an AI agent
Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to the OpenTweet MCP server and ask: "GTA 6 unlocks at midnight local time on November 19. Write one post per time zone as it goes live (New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Europe, US East, US West), schedule each for its midnight, and save a review-roundup draft for when the embargo lifts." Give it the facts; it writes the words and fills the calendar.
Which plan fits your account
Flat monthly price, no per-post fee. The deciding numbers are posts a day and how many carry a link.
| Setup | Typical volume | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| One game or one platform, news in your words without links | Up to 20 posts a day | Pro, $19.99/mo |
| Industry headlines with source links and patch notes, or news, deals and one game on 3 accounts | Up to 100 posts a day, 10 link posts, 3 X accounts | Advanced, $29/mo |
| A network of platform or game accounts | Up to 300 posts a day, 20 link posts, 10 X accounts | Agency, $49/mo |
Pro includes 1 link post a day; link credits cover launch week and The Game Awards on any plan. See pricing.
No trailers, no leaks. Trailers and gameplay belong to the publisher, and publishers send takedowns; repeated strikes cost X accounts. Quote-post the studio's own post and describe the news in text. Leaked footage gets the fastest takedowns of all.
Your words, their credit. A one-sentence summary that names the source is news. Pasting the article is copying. Leave key art and press screenshots off unless the publisher's press kit allows it.
Flag spoilers. Story details from a new release go behind a clear "spoilers for X" first line, or wait a week. A spoiler in a headline loses followers faster than anything else.
Don't pose as a studio or a platform. Pick a name and avatar that don't look official, turn on X's Automated label, and say "reportedly" until a studio confirms. More in X automation rules and running a news aggregator account.
Frequently asked questions
How do I auto-post gaming news to X?
Add a gaming RSS feed (IGN, GameSpot, PC Gamer, Eurogamer, Gematsu and 16 others worked on November 10, 2026) to the OpenTweet RSS connector, write one prompt that turns each headline into a post in your own words, set it to check every 15 minutes, and pick the X account. For patch notes, point the connector at a game's Steam news feed or run a short script. OpenTweet posts through a normal X login, so you need no X developer account.
Which gaming RSS feeds still work?
On November 10, 2026 these returned items from the last 48 hours: IGN (feeds.feedburner.com/ign/games-all), GameSpot (gamespot.com/feeds/news/), Polygon, Kotaku, PC Gamer, Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, Video Games Chronicle, Gematsu, Xbox Wire, GamesRadar+, The Verge games, Nintendo Life, Push Square, Pure Xbox, Game Developer, Dexerto, Siliconera, Destructoid and Insider Gaming. The PlayStation Blog feed works but posts a few times a week. Rockstar Newswire has no RSS feed (404), and VG247's feed has not updated since June 2026.
How do I post Steam patch notes to X automatically?
Every Steam game has a news feed at https://store.steampowered.com/feeds/news/app/APPID/ (Baldur's Gate 3 is 1086940). Add it to the OpenTweet RSS connector in template mode with "{title} {url}". For several games in one account, call Steam's keyless GetNewsForApp API with feeds=steam_community_announcements, which returns only the developer's own posts, and post anything new. The script on this page does that.
When does GTA 6 come out?
November 19, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Reports say it unlocks at midnight local time, so it starts in New Zealand and rolls west, and preloads opened around November 9 to 10 for digital pre-orders. Rockstar has not announced a PC date. For a gaming account it is the biggest launch of the year: expect a day of first impressions, review scores, and server and performance news.
Can I post GTA 6 trailers, leaks or gameplay clips on X?
Not clips you didn't make. Trailers and footage belong to Rockstar and Take-Two, and publishers file copyright takedowns against accounts that repost them; repeated strikes get X accounts suspended. Leaked material is the riskiest of all. Quote-post @RockstarGames' own post instead, describe the news in text, and post your own gameplay only if you recorded it. Mark story spoilers clearly in the first line, or leave them out for the first week.
How often should a gaming news account post?
Ten to thirty posts a day is normal for a news account that covers the whole industry, with more on big days like a showcase, a major launch or The Game Awards. A single-game or single-platform account posts less and goes deeper: patch notes, events, and community news. Spread posts across the day instead of in bursts of five.
Restock alerts? See the Pokemon restock bot and the Black Friday deals bot. Video clips you made yourself? See the video account guide and auto-post YouTube videos to X. Sports instead? See the NFL news bot.
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