Do we need Metacritic?

No. No we don’t. It’s more complicated that that, of course. Before today, Metacritic was a good concept gone insane, a website for vengeful gamers to post zero out of ten reviews on games they haven’t played as much as

Fixing Reviews: The Lying Score

Review scores are tricky; they are not for everybody. For a scoring system to have any worth, it must have consistency. Not everybody is ready for that. You can’t call a game a master-piece only to call it a disappointment at the end of the year. Review scores must also be honest and, believe it or not, even less people are ready for that. Here, I’m not talking about the flawed notion some outlets have that the average between 0 and 10 is 8. That’s just being mathematically deprived. Instead, I’m talking about Metacritic, Amazon, App Stores and whatever other place that aggregates scores from users in order to present a single information: that the cosmos has voted and decided that game X is a 8.6 out of 10.

Guess what? They are all lying.

They are lying because they encourage users to lie in their reviews. Yes, that means the liar is ultimately you, Mr. User.

Duke Nukem Does Not Cure Cancer!

Like a brilliantly cynical man once said, the only way Duke Nukem Forever would achieve any form of success, would be if it cured at least three forms of cancer. Well, after just over a decade of waiting for the

UPDATED: Who Is and Who Isn't On The Develop 100?

Heck, you may be asking yourself what IS the Develop 100 at the moment, no? For those of you not in the know, the Develop 100 is an effort not unlike Metacritic, except it aims to rank development studios around

Review: Monster Hunter Tri

Let’s start this story at the beginning. I’ve never played a Monster Hunter game before, so if you loved previous iterations, this review is not for you. You will love this game, I imagine. This review is for those of