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Metacritic Will Improve Moderation After Horizon Review Bombing
25.4.2023
Following the recent review bombing of Horizon Forbidden West’s latest story DLC Burning Shores, review aggregator Metacritic has confirmed in a statement to Eurogamer that the site is “evolving [its] processes” to introduce tools that will create stricter moderation for abusive and disrespectful...
Sega’s Sonic-Murder Game Now One Of Best-Reviewed In Series
7.4.2023
On March 31, the day before April Fools’, Sega released an official (and free!) Sonic game on Mac and PC that straight up killed the blue bastard. Now, a week later, the game is blowing up on Steam and is even a hit on Metacritic. So it seems critics and fans alike agree: Killing Sonic was a great...
Resident Evil 4 Remake Is Getting Review Bombed For The Worst Reasons
3.4.2023
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. Read more
2023’s Highest Rated Games Are Mostly Remakes Or Remasters
17.3.2023
2023 has already been a pretty solid year for games. However, if you stop and look at Metacritic to see what some of the highest-rated games released this year actually were, you’ll notice a trend: Many of them are remakes or remasters of older games. It’s a trend that likely has a few different...
Critics Love The New Dead Space Remake
26.1.2023
Following its announcement in 2021 and a refreshingly open development period, EA’s remake of the horror classic Dead Space is out tomorrow, January 27 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. And reviews from various sites around the net suggest the remake is something very special, elevating the original...
Layoffs Hit GameSpot, Giant Bomb Just Months After Fandom Buys Them
19.1.2023
Two of the biggest outlets in games media are the latest to face layoffs. A number of editorial staff across both Giant Bomb and GameSpot revealed they’d been let go on Thursday, just months after the sites were purchased by the Fandom wiki network.Read more
The Worst Games Of 2022 According To Metacritic
15.12.2022
Another year in the books. Or ebooks. Or TikTok. I don’t know. I’m older now so I can’t keep up with all your newfangled gizmos and bookkeeping tools. What I do know is that this year is basically over. So, we can now look at Metacritic to see what game critics collectively declared as the worst...
Latest Videogamedunkey YouTube Sparks Sonic Frontiers Review Bombing
15.11.2022
The Metacritic page for the PlayStation 5 version of Sonic Frontiers is currently being review-bombed, seemingly in response to the latest video from popular gaming YouTuber Videogamedunkey. As you’d expect, Sonic stans are coming back just as hard, defending the virtues of the blue hedgehog’s...
Giant Bomb, GameSpot, MetaCritic And More Sold To Fan Wiki Company
3.10.2022
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...
What Diablo Immortal Means For The Future Of Gaming
14.6.2022
Diablo Immortal has been setting the internet alight with controversy. Every gaming website under the sun has a take about how the microtransactions ruin the gameplay and how Blizzard was ruining fans’ beloved childhood memories of Diablo. The game currently holds the lowest user score...
Diablo Immortal Slammed On Metacritic, Now Holds Lowest User Score Ever
13.6.2022
Review aggregation sites are hardly the arbiter of a game’s quality, particularly when it comes to user reviews, and particularly in the era of review-bombing. Still, some data points are unignorable: As noted by VGC, Blizzard’s recent Diablo Immortal now holds claim to the lowest user score...
Gran Turismo 7 Is Now Sony’s Lowest-Rated Game On Metacritic
21.3.2022
Despite its high sales, Gran Turismo 7 is not having a good launch month. On Friday, developers Polyphony Digital took the game offline for almost two days of maintenance. This meant that even much of the game’s single player mode was also unplayable since that also requires an internet connection....
Hráči zuří, nový patch prý udělal z Gran Turisma jinou hru, než si koupili
21.3.2022
Napsat, že se poslední patch pro vynikající závody Gran Turismo 7 fanouškům nelíbí, by byl nemístný eufemismus. Hra po více než 24 hodin nešla ani spustit, její vybalancování se pak posunulo směrem k mikrotransakcím
Microsoft je podle Metacriticu nejúspěšnějším vydavatelem her za rok 2021
11.3.2022
Server Metacritic sestavil žebříček nejúspěšnějších herních vydavatelství za loňský rok na základě průměrných hodnocení vydaných her. Díky hitům jako Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite nebo Age of Empires 4 jej ovládl Microsoft
Reklamy nelhaly, Elden Ring je jednou z nejlépe hodnocených her vůbec
24.2.2022
Na novou hru od legendárního studia From Software hráči čekali s napětím dlouhé roky. A přestože byla očekávání obrovská, podařilo se je naplnit. Na agregátoru hodnocení Metacritic se Elden Ring okamžitě zařadil mezi vůbec nejlépe hodnocené hry všech dob
Podívejte se na desítku nejhorších her roku 2021 podle Metacritcu
20.12.2021
Zatímco hlasování o nejlepší hry roku ještě probíhají, už teď je možné vyhodnotit ty největší průšvihy. Agregátor hodnocení Metacritic zveřejnil desítku vůbec nejhůře hodnocených titulů letošního roku, kterým je záhodno se obloukem vyhnout
The Worst Games Of 2021 According To Metacritic
17.12.2021
It was the best of games, it was the worst of games. 2021 was another year where we flocked to our gaming consoles and computers for shelter from the virus-ridden world outside. While there were plenty of good games to play this year, there were also those so bad that they made everything more...
User Reviews Are Still The Best Tool We Have
5.7.2021
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.Read more
SEGA je podle Metacriticu nejúspěšnějším vydavatelem her za rok 2020
29.3.2021
Server Metacritic sestavil žebříček nejúspěšnějších herních vydavatelství za rok 2020 na základě průměrných hodnocení vydaných her. Výsledek odpovídá tomu, že se aktuálně vezeme především na vlně remasterů a remaků
The Worst Games Of 2020 According To Metacritic
2.1.2021
2020 was a terrible year in many, many ways, but we did get some great games too. Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, Fall Guys, Miles Morales, Crusader Kings III, and more all released this year. But as usual, it’s not all good and this year saw the release of some games that weren’t well-reviewed...