PC

Rant: Even If No One Listens, Let The Diablo III 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. Flooding Amazon to give zero stars to something others have called 10/10, sure, that’s not a legitimate review. And people staging a sit-in aren’t there to legitimately patronize a public accommodation, either. But a sit-in is a legitimate form of protest. And I think a review bomb is, too.


May 12, 2012
News

Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘A Steaming Pile Of Mundanity’

Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes”, a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personally.


May 1, 2012
News

Total War Developer’s Approach To Metacritic May Be ‘Brutal’ But It Works

In an interview with Gamasutra, Tim Heaton, the studio director of Total War developer Creative Assembly, described their development process as Metacritic-focused and “brutal”.


April 28, 2012
News

Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘Metacritic Reviews Are Often Avenues For Trolling’

Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personally.


April 14, 2012
News

Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘A Dance Central Rip-Off’

Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personally.


March 31, 2012
News

Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘Keep This Piece Of Crap To Yourself’

Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes”, a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personally.


March 24, 2012
News

Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘This Is The Cars 2 Of Team Ninja’

Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal.


March 16, 2012
In Real Life

Why Are Game Developer Bonuses Based On Review Scores?

Last night, Obsidian’s Chris Avellone tweeted an interesting detail about his roleplaying game Fallout: New Vegas.


March 10, 2012
PC

Backhanded Box Quotes: ‘I’d Rather Be Sodomised’

Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes”, a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. This week, Backhanded Box Quotes could have given over the entire feature to the fanboy backlash against Mass Effect 3. There are many day-one complaints against the space-opera RPG below, and also some scorn reserved for Street Fighter X Tekken. Enjoy.


March 7, 2012
In Real Life

Metacritic Says It Has Removed Rule-Violating Mass Effect 3 User Reviews

Aggregating website Metacritic says it has deleted some Mass Effect 3 user reviews and will “continue to monitor” what seems to be a unified effort to spam pages for BioWare’s action roleplaying game, which hit stores today.