With a new, greater emphasis on reviews, GameCyte intends to cover a high volume of new releases each week. Each Saturday we'll post a "Week in Review" -- a run down of the week's reviews, in case you missed something.
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Famitsu isn’t exactly the most reliable publication when it comes to review scores, but when a super high profile game created by a top-class Japanese developer and lots of advertising scores below a 30… Well, it’s definitely time to take notice. In the latest issue of Famitsu, Level-5’s White Knight Chronicles does just that, scoring a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
There won’t be any review controversy with Ubisoft’s latest title, Prince of Persia. Unlike Assassin’s Creed, the company seems pleased with the way the reviews are turning out. Posting on his blog, Ubisoft producer Ben Mattes wrote, “I'm glad most of the big reviews are out of the way and plenty happy with the ~85 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 30, 2008
With companies still caring too much about review scores, and with recent studies showing that advertisements play a far larger role in purchases than any objective scores or grades, the timing was perfect for an example to drive home the “Reviews don’t matter quite as much as people think (most of the time)” debate. That [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
Ever wonder just how much reviews and commercials actually impact a person when it comes to buying games/consoles? If so, a new study has the answers for you. According to the Fall 2008 Ad-ology Media Influence on Consumer Choice survey (say that three times fast), what we see and read influences us quite a bit. The [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 30, 2008
In another move toward limiting the freedom of the games press to convey facts to readers, Stephen Totilo over at MTV Multiplayer has posted reports that Konami is requesting that reviewers not mention certain technical details about Metal Gear Solid 4 in reviews. Those details, however, have already been leaked. Specifically, Konami is rumored to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 25, 2008
"Without question, Grand Theft Auto IV is the best game since Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time." That's the line Hilary Goldstein uses to lead into her his seven-page review of Grand Theft Auto IV, the only console game to ever receive perfect 10s in every IGN category, from presentation to graphics, sound, gameplay and lasting [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Matt Matthews of Next-Gen has done some digging into the vast databases of our old friend Metacritic, and he has interesting observations about the quality of game releases based on month. He didn't stop there. He made a color-coded chart! Be still my statistics-loving heart!
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
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