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Fandom lays off employees across Giant Bomb, GameSpot and Metacritic

Entertainment company Fandom has laid off an unspecified number of employees across multiple properties, including Giant Bomb, GameSpot and Metacritic. These properties are mainly focused on publishin

Metacritic Moves Away From Developer Ratings

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mcd.jpg" />Perhaps we're finally moving toward a world where slapping an 8.2 score on a video game will become a thing of the past. Metac

Dragon Age II Metacritic User Reviews Padded By BioWare Employees

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/avanost.jpg" />Yet more evidence that applying a number score to a work of art, be it a movie, a novel, or a video game, is a complete wa

Study: Nobody pays attention to video game scores (especially Metacritic ones)

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/metacriticlogo.gif" />I've never hidden <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/26/everyones-a-metacritic-why-aggregating-game-reviews

Enemy Territory developer hates Metacritic's influence

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/metacriticcc.jpg" />Let's continue now with a thesis developed late last year, that <a HREF="http://www.metacritic.com/games/">Metacritic

Everyone's a Metacritic: Why aggregating game reviews is absurd

Apparently these few lines have turned the world upside down: Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld’s metascore. Right

Review scores-gate: Eidos tells reviewers to hold off on Tomb Raider reviews unless they were positive

From, obviously, Penny-Arcade Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld‘s metascore. Right now it’s 78. That&#821