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Game Reviews: Critique, Subjectivity and the 10 Point Scale

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2008-07-04 14:02:16 by Daniel in DP's Gamer Blog:: Mighty Pirate!
...reviews but I would like to add a little more as I feel that there is still a substantial amount of work that still needs to be done on fixing the current make up of video game assessment. The Reviewing Vs Critiquing Framework For a long time this has been (and no surprises here, still remains) the crux of my argument for improving game...
 
Tags: game, video game, video game assessment, game reviews, game falls, reviews, typical game, scale, critique
 
 
 
 
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Reviews Week Kicks Off At MTV Multiplayer

2008-05-27 19:00:25 by Stephen Totilo in MTV Multiplayer
 
...reviews. Id read plenty of rants about the state of game reviews. But I wanted to know more. I wanted to do some reporting I wanted to ask some big questions How much do game reviews matter to the people who make games How exactly do bad game reviews affect the business of game making What are the biggest problems reviewers face while doing...
 
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My Continual Frustration with Game Reviews

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2008-04-16 16:00:23 by Daniel in DP's Gamer Blog:: Mighty Pirate!
...reviews. Upon this realization I have been re-analyzing my stance on video game reviews and over the past couple of weeks I have drawn a series of conclusions that Id like to share with you. Prelude Before my eventual realization I noticed a few strange quirks about some games which I would now like to use as examples My first observation was...
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Down With Print-Mag Reviews

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2008-03-09 00:00:53 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...reviews in video-game magazines. That's because, in my opinion, traditional reviews in game magazines should go to the same place that cheat and strategy-guide pages went -- i.e., somewhere where I don't have to pay money for them That's something I've found doubly true for EGM's reviews section. A three-reviewer system had its advantages...
 
Tags: print game magazines, game magazines, mag, game, video-game magazines, reviews, game-mag evolution, video-game, game criticism
 
 
 
 
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reviews vs trailers

2008-03-13 00:01:00 by Aaron Miller in Anyway Games
 
...reviews have ever been as influential as developers make them out to be. The fact that good reviews correlate with good sales doesn't mean good reviews cause good sales. I think it's more likely that consumers can spy a good game on their own through screenshots, FAQs, trailers, and (most importantly) speaking with gamers and salespeople ...
 
Tags: trailers, reviews, video game commercials, game, official game sites, game trailers, influential reviews, influential, seek reviews
 
 
 
 
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Tobold's MMORPG Blog: Atari and early reviews

2008-06-24 08:31:36 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...reviews of Alone in the Dark. Which obviously is a bad idea, because the negative backlash for suing them is going to hurt them more than the positive effect of getting somebody to retract a bad review. And far more people will now be aware of that game having bad reviews than if the bad reviews would just have been allowed to stand But of...
 
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Atari and early reviews

2008-06-24 13:19:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...reviews of Alone in the Dark. Which obviously is a bad idea, because the negative backlash for suing them is going to hurt them more than the positive effect of getting somebody to retract a bad review. And far more people will now be aware of that game having bad reviews than if the bad reviews would just have been allowed to stand But of...
 
Tags: game, game feature, feature, game bad, game copies, game company, release, release version, bad game
 
 
 
 
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Seeing Contradictions In Reviews, Star Wars Game Producer Weighs Consumer Feedback

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2008-10-13 13:00:26 by Stephen Totilo in MTV Multiplayer
...reviews were okay The games story has been widely praised in reviews and among all the gamers whove played it that Ive spoken to. Its gameplay hasnt been as broadly well-received, though it has fans as well But with the feedback being so mixed, which responses can you trust? This is what Blackman has decided Were trying to be balanced when we...
 
Tags: feedback, game, reviews, consumer feedback, gamer feedback, story, game creator, games story, feedback matters
 
 
 
 
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Edge: game reviews are becoming more about justifying purchases

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2008-11-27 14:27:50 by Isaac C. in Xbox 360
...reviews in order to sell more games. The most notable incident where this became an issue is Gerstmann Gate Recently though, it seems there's a growing trend for gamers to try and influence game reviews and scores themselves out of loyalty to their own platforms Edge Online feels they may be the target of gamers' ire this time when they...
 
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Edge: game reviews are becoming more about justifying purchases

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