Post Tagged with: "Metacritic"

Batman: Arkham City Beats Skyrim to Metacritic’s Top Rated Game of 2011

In Metacritic’s list of the best rated games in 2011, Batman has managed to pip Skyrim to the post.

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Bioware Employee Caught In a Review Scandal Over Dragon Age II

As if it wasn’t hard enough trying to be a decent game writer and trying to give people honest opinions about what games they should and should not play…

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Sessler Psycho-Analyzes the Fanboy Condition

Enough of the Metacritic nonsense right? Well, the story we broke a few weeks ago — the same one that so many sites forgot to source us on (it’s ok, we forgive you) — has apparently been eating away at G4TV host, Adam Sessler. This installment of Sessler’s Soapbox features a relentless rant on the [...]

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Despite Fanboy Accusations, Metacritic Does Not Exclude In-Network Review Scores

A few weeks ago, we ran a story about LittleBigPlanet’s Metacritic user score: a measly 6.3. We spoke to the site’s founder Marc Doyle about the matter and were informed that it was only that low due to rampant fanboys on the warpath, attempting to sabotage the PS3 and its games. This inevitably continued with [...]

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Resistance 2 Latest Victim in Metacritic Douchey User Flames

When will it end? Shortly after we talked to Metacritic founder Marc Doyle about LittleBigPlanet’s low user score, the wrath of Sony fanboys was unleashed upon Gears of War 2′s user score as a revenge hit. It now appears that the 360 fanboys just wouldn’t stand for that, even though they seem to have started [...]

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PS3 Fanboys Strike Back: Gears 2 Metacritic User Score Lowered to 4.1

I recently interviewed Metacrtic founder, Marc Doyle, about what many were calling a suspiciously low LittleBigPlanet user score of 6.3 on his site. Those unfamiliar with Metacritic need only to know that it aggregates the scores given by critics on various websites around the web into one “metascore” and also allows users to submit their [...]

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Metacritic Founder Talks About LittleBigPlanet Low User Score, Fanboys, and the Site’s Future

After reading about the suspiciously low Metacritic user score of 6.3 for Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet, I decided to dig into the story a little deeper. For those unfamiliar with the situation, allow me to fill you in.

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