Why someone from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer would consider its fan-voted Metacritic score worth a get-out-the-vote tweet is utterly beyond me. It is by far the most polarising title among gaming’s annual releases, so a user score of 1.7 is probably to be expected, given how much gaming’s snobs cognoscenti despise all that it stands for. More »
Earlier this week we got word that Metacritic was intending to start rating individual developers in addition to video games. There was a bit of a backlash amongst consumers and the press, and now Metacritic has responded. More »
Metacritic, whose 90s, 80s, 70s and dreaded 60s are points of pride and shame for the video game industry, will now be applying ratings to individual game developers, giving them a score based on an average of all the games they’ve worked on. More »
Earlier last week, THQ’s share value dropped 25% as a result of mediocre early reviews for Homefront posted on Metacritic but, despite that, the game has gone on to sell strongly, shifting 1 million units across all markets, with 2.5 million shipped. More »
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This week we’re taking video game reviews to task – are they now redundant? So they need to change? More »
