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Resident Evil 4 Remake Is Getting Review Bombed For The Worst Reasons
The Resident Evil 4 remake isn’t a one-to-one clone — it’s a sharper copy, with gameplay tweaks, dialogue changes, and new voice actors, including Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City actress Lily Gao reprising her role as red dress assassin Ada Wong.
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Giant Bomb, GameSpot, MetaCritic And More Sold To Fan Wiki Company
The gaming press world has been in quite some turmoil of late. Tencent just gutted Fanbyte, G4TV just fired a bunch of its staff, and Future Publishing just let go a swathe of writers and editors, despite making hundreds of millions of dollars last year. So it’s with perhaps some trepidation we report the news…
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Why User Reviews Are The Best Tool We Have
It’s an increasingly common refrain: user reviews, particularly on Steam and Metacritic, are increasingly unhelpful. We’ve covered all the facets of review bombing for years, but what’s interesting is that some developers themselves are backing the idea of scrapping user reviews altogether. But one prominent indie developer and publisher has struck out at the discourse,…
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The Last of Us Part 2’s Metacritic Page Shows How Broken Numerical Scores Are
Despite The Last of Us Part 2‘s mixed critical reception, review score aggregator Metacritic shows it with a critical score of 95 out of 100, with a plethora of 10/10s developer Naughty Dog has been happy to tout. The user scores, meanwhile, sit at an abysmal 3.5 out of 10, based on over 31,000 reviews…