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EA Sports Looking To Amazon, “Mommy Bloggers,” Not Metacritic
7:40AM Michael McWhertor | Game publishers think Metacritic review score averages are a Big Deal. EA boasts—and frets over—its own Metacritic scores in earnings calls. Others base bonuses on aggregate arbitrary numbers. But EA’s Peter Moore isn’t as worried about Metacritic averages. More »
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So, How Many 360 Games Are Any Good?
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Picture the scene: your mum walks into GameStop. She walks to the Xbox 360 section, and picks out a game for your birthday. At random. What are the odds she picks a good one? More »
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Rockstar Most Consistent Publisher, Ubisoft Least Consistent
6:00AM Brian Crecente | Self-described Metacritic-expert Tim Sweezey over at GameQuarry.Com has a fascinating report up about the developers that are most consistent in publishing a certain quality of game. More »
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Sega Europe Chief Says Metacritic Most Useful to Expensive Games
3:30AM Owen Good | Sega Europe boss Mike Hayes says Metacritic scores are indicative of certain games’ success, and while score targets aren’t written into every developer contract, Metacritic does have value — especially in judging expensive projects. More »
Metacritic’s Best And Worst of 2008
1:00AM Brian Crecente | Metacritic put together a list of the best and worst games of 2008 on every console. The top reviewed aren’t that surprising, but there are some real doozies in the duds. More »
Metacritic’s 10 Best, Worst Games Of 2008
12:00PM Luke Plunkett | Every man, his dog and his dog’s pet rabbit have a “best of” list. This isn’t one of those. This is Metacritic’s “best of”, meaning it was compiled not by fragile human subjectivity, but numbers. More »
Another Way to Grade Sales vs. Quality
6:00AM Owen Good | So EA crowed that it had 17 games scoring 80 or better on Metacritic (I love it; we’re officially into Wine Spectator-style rating snobbery with video game criticism). How’d other major publishers do? More »
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These Are EA’s Quality Games Of 2008
6:20AM Michael McWhertor | EA CEO John Riccitiello proudly boasted of his company’s improving quality this week, the good news that came with the financially bad. Seventeen EA games racked up Metacritic averages of 80 or higher. Which ones? More »
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Eidos Trying To Fix Tomb Raider: Underworld Metacritic Scores
1:20AM Mike Fahey | Eidos UK’s PR firm has confirmed that British sites planning on posting Tomb Raider: Underworld reviews with less than an 8.0 score are being asked to hold off posting them until Monday. The news originally game from a twitter post from Gamespot UK journalist Guy Cocker, relaying a call he received voicing that very request. A representative from the PR firm Barrington Harvey spoke to Videogaming247 this morning. “That’s right. We’re trying to manage the review scores at the request of Eidos.” When asked why, the spokesperson said: “Just that we’re trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high, and the brand manager in the US that’s handling all of Tomb Raider has asked that we just manage the scores before the game is out, really, just to ensure that we don’t put people off buying the game, basically.” More »
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