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IMDb 2.5 iPhone App Adds Metacritic

Download the latest IMDb app on your iPhone or iPad and you’ll get Metacritic scores and reviews, expanded international support, and new ways to share your favorite tidbits, according to The Internet Movie Database. Per the IMDb 2.5 changelog on iTunes, the new app lets you “tap on trivia items, quotes ...

26 January 2012
08:11 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 User Review Average at 1.4 on Metacritic

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was eagerly awaited by millions of gamers from all around the world but, after yesterday's release, quite a few weren't thrilled with the experience, so the user review average on aggregator website Metacritic is now at a shocking 1.4 out of 10.Modern Warfare 3 was heavily hyp...

9 November 2011
06:55 GMT

The Witcher 2 Gets 0 Score Dragon Age Powered Metacritic Reviews

The Witcher 2 has been launched this week and while the official reviews for the game seem to be mostly positive a strange phenomenon seems to be taking place on review aggregation site Metacritic, where the negative user review sections is dominated by those who have awarded the game a score of 0. A look at the s...

18 May 2011
18:31 GMT

Portal 2 Criticized by Gamers, Praised by Reviewers on Metacritic

Portal 2 was released yesterday, and reviewers all around the world are already praising the new game from Valve, but, at the same time, regular gamers are using review aggregator Metacritic to criticize the game. Portal 2 was one of the most expected games of the beginning of the year, so it's only natural t...

20 April 2011
03:20 GMT

THQ Executive Believes Homefront Should Have Higher Metacritic Score

Danny Bilson, who is a vice president at video game publisher THQ and one of the most public faces of the company, has said that Homefront, the recently launched first-person shooter that was created by Kaos Studios, deserves more on Metacritic than 71. Speaking about the recently launched Homefront to IGN, he sta...

13 April 2011
17:21 GMT

Take Two Leader Says Company Games Should Be Great, Not Good

When someone says that a product is “good,” the manufacturer should take it as a compliment, but the video game world has devalued the word so much that publisher Take Two now expects its video games to be no less than “great.” Strauss Zelnick, who is the chief executive officer of Take Two...

10 March 2011
04:34 GMT

Electronic Arts Needs to Balance Great Games with Sales

The leader of the EA Games label at publisher Electronic Arts has said that his company needs to create a system where it can balance the quality of the video games it publishes with the commercial success that they achieve in the long term. Speaking to Develop as part of a bigger interview, Frank Gibeau, who is t...

13 December 2010
05:35 GMT

Bad Medal of Honor Reviews Affect Electronic Arts Shares

Share value for publisher Electronic Arts has slid more than six percent in trading as the review scores for their reboot of the Medal of Honor first person shooter were lower than expected from a variety of sources.Before the game, which will compete with the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops for the title of best so...

13 October 2010
09:01 GMT

EA Sports: FIFA 11 Team Will Not Focus On Getting High Review Scores

Peter Moore, the president of EA Sports, has declared in a recent interview that video game development should not focus only on obtaining high Metacritic scores, because that did not always go well with players. Trying to obtain a strong critical reception is a slippery slope that may lead developers away from their...

20 July 2010
14:21 GMT

Metacritic: Video Games in 2010 Are Better than in 2009

Are video games getting better or are video game reviewers just giving better grades to the titles launched this year? This is the question that pops up when one reads the report critical site Metacritic has recently released, showing how the game reviews from the first half of 2010 scored compared to those from the ...

6 July 2010
16:31 GMT

Madden NFL 10 Performs Worse than Expected

Madden NFL is a huge franchise and its performance is a clear indicator of how well the videogaming industry is doing overall and how well Electronic Arts is doing in a particular year. So, with the game moving about 1.9 million copies in August, with a life time on shelves of about two weeks, Madden NFL seems to be ...

11 September 2009
14:31 GMT

Metacritic Scores Irrelevant for Nintendo Wii Videogames

The boss of EA Sports, the outspoken Peter Moore, is saying that players who would like to pick up Nintendo Wii videogames are not looking up to Metacritic in order to make decisions, but are interested in the user reviews that “normal” gamers create for each title.Moore talked to Gamasutra and said that ...

11 June 2009
07:22 GMT

Only 13% of Xbox 360 Games Are Actually Very Good

The Xbox 360 was the first next-generation console to appear on the market. It introduced new things to game developers and it is currently a favorite for a lot of people, due to its low price and wide variety of games that you can pick up for it. However, if an adequate gamer with some knowledge picks up an Xbox 36...

18 March 2009
17:41 GMT

Game Dev Criticizes the Pressure of Review Scores

Game developers are under a lot of stress, as when the game is still in the creation phase they need to make sure that deadlines are met, that the whole team is working towards a single goal and that everything will turn out alright and the game will be made. But after the game is launched you would think that all of...

22 January 2009
13:01 GMT

Here Are Metacritic's Top Ten Best and Worst Games of 2008

The end of the year is nearly upon us and, as a lot of gaming websites are showcasing their tops and charts with the games of 2008, the famous review website Metacritic has decided to release its own Top Ten, according to all of the review scores given by specialty websites to the games that have appeared this year. ...

30 December 2008
03:50 GMT

Quality Triumphs at Electronic Arts

Less than a year after he launched the mantra of "quality over quantity" at Electronic Arts, John Riccitiello believes that his efforts in creating a more capable publisher and developer have largely succeeded. Electronic Arts, known for rushing out big games in an effort to create as much value as possible for share...

30 July 2008
04:38 GMT

Developers Disagree with Microsoft

Microsoft recently said that it would take down those Xbox Live Arcade games that have a score of lower than 65% from Metacritic. Gamerbytes interviewed some XBLA developers to see how they reacted to the news coming from Microsoft.Ilari Kuittinen, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Housemarque, a company that cre...

17 June 2008
14:06 GMT

EA Wants to Do Better Games after Checking Metacritic's scores

If you thought there is nothing or nobody able to slap EA and at least make them wish to create some better games and not only sequels that are generally worse than the originals, well... you were wrong. At least that is what John Riccitiello, head of Electronic Arts, has said recently, while showing a chart that mad...

25 February 2008
03:44 GMT


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