I’ve been provoked to write this short overview on the topic of reviewing games and giving them a numerical score at the end, mostly by the plethora of gamers on various news forums I regularly visit. Their argument is that a game should not be observed /cared for if it has a low score either on separate basis (graphics, gameplay, multyplayer, etc) or overall. Also, it is much more time efficient to just scroll down a review of a game you were interested in, jumping to the part where each element of the game is judged by a numerical value (go, go Metacritic?). Since we live in a stressful world where time is of the essence, it is no wonder that the majority of gamers tend to rely on these numbers to make a decision to either buy a certain game or not. While I cannot judge my fellow gamers on their own personal choices, it is my decision to argue with the “wrongful notion” to accept this “reviewing pattern with numbering” and delve into the deeper meaning. After all, reviews are opin...
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I think everyone should be there own judge. Think of how many games that have been passed over because of low scores. Then you have games like GTAIV that for me. Was totally slow and boring getting a near prefect score. Everyone's taste's and points of view are different. As will the experience of each game.
Maybe a system like, Buy, Rent, Don't Buy, would be a good system. Think some sites use it
Scoring games works fine in theory but people do it wrong.
If a game doesn't get 9.5 or above people are up in arms and say the site is looking for hits and this affects the way te site reviews as they are under that pressure even though 7 and above is good.
Yeah, a point system reflects taste so someone might not even like a 10/10 game. It may be a 10/10 to the person playing it but if you don't like that genre you wouldn't to enjoy it.
A scoring system is necessary to indicate quality at a glance, I suppose to people who don't have time to read reviews. People might just want to read the pros and cons and see the final score and a lot of sites do that. I like that method.
Scores are stupid.