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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 to reset a couple of quests. Maybe game-crashing bugs pissed you off to the point where you wished you could get your money back. But they probably didn’t cost you a million dollars.
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 critical errors that call it into question. Earlier this week, Full Sail University professor Adams Greenwood-Ericksen held a GDC session in San Francisco in which he shared some of his research on the effects of Metacritic, the aggregation site that takes media reviews from hundreds of outlets and outputs them as a single number, or Metascore.
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 it. Fewer titles surpassed the all-important 90 — which practically guarantees job security to those who developed or greenlit the project — than in 2011. Interestingly, the three console platforms’ average review scores all improved slightly.
Reviewer Apologises 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 nonetheless — says he’s sorry for the mistakes in his piece.
