Here’s A Stat That Distorts The Value Of A Game
From Metacritic scores to How Long To Beat completion times, there are plenty of numbers that players reference when…
Assassin's Creed Origins Metacritic Flooded With Fake Positive User Reviews
A barrage of fake user reviews has hit the Metacritic page for Assassin’s Creed Origins, all of them positive, and all…
Prey Shows That Bethesda's Review Policy Is Even Bad For Bethesda
Prey, the newest game from Arkane Studios, is most enjoyable when you take your time exploring its corners and…
Reviewer Targeted For Giving Uncharted 4 Negative Review
“Your Washington post for Christ’s Sake , not a 12-year-old’s diary,” reads a recent internet petition about Uncharted 4…
Metacritic Gets A New Competitor
Metacritic, an aggregation tool used in equal part by forum trolls and multi-billion-dollar publishers, has long…
Metacritic Matters: How Review Scores Hurt Video Games
Bugs in Fallout: New Vegas might have eaten your save file. Maybe they took away a few hours of progress, or forced you…
This Week In The Business: Taking Aim At Metacritic
QUOTE | "Nobody here ever bothers about Metacritic. We think of it as irrelevant, quite frankly. We only concentrate on…
A Look At Metacritic's Many Problems
Today, the gaming website Eurogamer announced plans to ditch review scores, joining outlets like Kotaku and Rock Paper…
The Games Of The Year, As Decided By Cold Hard Numbers
Now that the end of the year is here, everyone is starting to declare their "game of the year"—and Metacritic has now…
This Week In The Business: Metacritic Means Nothing
QUOTE | "We've basically seen Metacritic all but become obsolete right now... We get obsessed with it...but it doesn't…
'Worst' PS4 Game Is Getting Rebuilt From Scratch
Normally, if a new release is lacking in some way—be it in terms of quality or because of bugs—the developers will…
Amazon Adding Metacritic Scores Is Bad News For Everyone
The immensely powerful aggregation website Metacritic just got a little more powerful, partnering up with Amazon, the…
Warren Spector Sure Wishes Metacritic Was Less Relevant
Add Deus Ex and Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector to the list of people who think the video game industry should stop…
The Case Of The Flawed Metacritic Study
A study looking into the hidden formula that drives Metacritic made headlines this week, but Kotaku has discovered some…
Metacritic Treats Some Outlets Differently From Others. Here's How [Update: Metacritic Disputes Findings]
Industry favourite Metacritic, a site which aggregates review scores, does not simply add up every score it can find…
Did Sports Video Games Really Get Any Better in 2012?
Earlier this week, Metacritic bemoaned 2012 as a year of poorer review scores for video games than the one preceding…
Here Are The Worst Games Of 2012, According To Metacritic
The cynical among us might say that all the games we played this year were 'awful.' Fewer titles reached a score of at…
Reviewer Apologizes For Factual Inaccuracies In Pulled GameSpot Review
The freelance reviewer who wrote a video game review that was pulled by GameSpot—and kept on Metacritic…
Metacritic Refuses To Pull Negative Review That GameSpot Admits Was Factually Inaccurate
If you head on over to the Metacritic page for Natural Selection 2, you might notice something strange. Of the seven…
Even If No One Listens, Let the Review Bombs Fall
It's easy to sit back and scoff at "review bombing," as we saw last week when Blizzard released a broken Diablo III.…