I dig Metafuture... an entertaining, witty gaming blog written by one of Kotaku's disgruntled ex-own. I was saddened by the recent announcement of its passing as a blog: who will point out mistakes in our grammar or chide me for having the name of a Harry Potter fan fic character now?

Metafuture is now positioning itself as a new, more accurate Game Rankings. The idea is to inflate or deflate a review's score based upon that site's history of rewarding that score multiple times. In particular, it hopes to give a more accurate value of a game's actual worth according to a particular site by taking into account, for example, whether or not a site realistically only judges games by a 7-9 point scale.

IGN, we're looking square at you. And one of the first fruits of Metafuture's new focus is the above graph, which charts IGN's entire history of game review scores on a 1-10 point scale. Notice that IGN only really likes to give games whole number scores. Their most common score? An 8.0, followed closely by a 7. Not really surprising, but it's nice to have scientific proof.

Gamespot is a bit more balanced. Their most common score is a 7, but they give out scores above and below a hell of a lot more frequently than IGN. Florian Eckhardt

An Analysis of IGN Review Scores [Metafuture]

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