Gamasutra is more industry oriented though, as in it has a lot of features and blog posts and post-mortems from people making games. It can be very bland a lot of the times, except for sometimes when there's a million things to read in there during particularly busy seasons.
A similar site for that same purpose is gamesindustry.biz, which I admittedly visit less.
Honestly, for gaming news I do just default to either aggregates or polygon, despite hating them. Thing is, every now and then something like Polygon or Kotaku gets a hold of an exclusive interview or feature, and they can actually be pretty good. I'd say with Polygon that for every 20 articles about rick and morty, overwatch and some lady's pokemon opinions, there's 1 genuinely good article about a topic in games or the industry in general. Makes these sites feel more like a buzzfeed where some genuinely good journalists are stuck while trying to actually do good work while click-bait keeps winning.
IGN and Gamespot I do avoid entirely though. IGN in particular feels to me like entering the world of "gamers" that Gamestop and super bowl ads want to believe is what all gamers are, that weird mesh of bro-ey, sport-loving, gun-toting gamer that I just do not identify with in any way. Polygon and Kotaku are more like tumblr, so it's the complete opposite experience, which while also annoying feels less belligerent, to me at least.