metacritic
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It’s Way Too Easy For One Person To Review Bomb A Game On Metacritic
Earlier this week, members of the three-person game studio TurtleBlaze discovered their newest game, Kunai, had been inundated with what they claim were bogus negative scores. The game’s user score on Metacritic had sunk from a strong 8.1 to an atrocious 1.7, emblazoned in a bright red box for all to see.
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Pizza Reviews Are Meaner Than Video Game User Reviews: A Definitive Comparison
Are video game user reviews kinder than pizza user reviews? The short answer is “yes”. The long answer is this 27-minute video in which I cross-analyse the linguistic patterns of 500 one-star Yelp reviews of famous New York pizzerias and 500 “zero” Metacritic user reviews of acclaimed triple-A video games.
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Prey Shows That Bethesda’s Review Policy Is Even Bad For Bethesda
Prey, the newest game from Arkane Studios, is most enjoyable when you take your time exploring its corners and crevices. It’s a quiet, unsettling game, one that can turn into a real drag if you try to rush. So why did Bethesda force reviewers to blaze through the game as quickly as possible? And what…
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This Week In The Business: Taking Aim At Metacritic
“Nobody here ever bothers about Metacritic. We think of it as irrelevant, quite frankly. We only concentrate on what the users think.” — Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley, explaining why they don’t worry about Sniper Elite getting low scores from reviewers.