Grumblings have been rife on the internet recently (What’s new?) about reviews and reviewers in the video game industry. Where has the unrest come from?
The trend seems to be that fans will not let their favourite franchise be tarnished in any way by reviewers on websites and printed press. A prime example is the low review scores of Resident Evil 6 on Metacritic which had fans up in arms and crying foul from reviewers judging the game too harshly, they seem to forget that this is an aggregation of all review scores and some will be higher than others.
EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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Originally launched in 2011, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is coming to Nintendo Switch, so It's time to look back at the original.
Still have my ps3 copies. Bought it at launch and another one when I found it cheap and in perfect condition about 10 years ago. I wouldn’t buy it on Switch but if they made a PS5 version I would. I still have one of my PS3 Fats hooked up so good to go either way.
Id play it again on the switch. I wished my 360 version was bc but this is still a good way to play.
The artist behind Fallout 4’s Deathclaw reveals just how bad things got back when Bethesda took over the series
People are stupid I get it. No one should feel unsafe,
But I think they need to talk about why they cut so many corners during the development process and why none of their games ever look current. And why they think all of this is okay while they charge full price.
As much as Bethesda deserve criticism, that's not really relevant to the reveal of Fallout 3 in 2007.
The default angle Kotaku always go for is to highlight the worst in gaming.
I would’ve focused on the creative.
I just think this article is pointless...
For example... I love Halo.
Even if the next game sucked... I would still love it like it was the best game ever.
Its just fanboyism.
Decent point, but I disagree with a lot of it. I think a LOT of people forget that reviewers go into every game with an objective. By this I don't mean personality, but how they want to go about the review. Lets look at Biohazard 6.
If you look at it from a "how it works" mindset, it should score pretty high.
If you look at it from a "fans point of view" mindset, it will score low because it's not the game you use to love.
If you look at it from a "*@$! Capcom" mindset, you really have no creditability and thus don't matter.
In the end, people will disagree with any opinion they don't agree with, which is perfectly fine. However, I think some people should reveal how much time they had with the content. All of the high scores with Borderlands 2's DLC made me think a lot of reviewers didn't get very far and just reviewed it after 10 minutes. A lot of people forget that just 1 problem is enough to ruin the game or content. I doubt anyone would say Master Gee in that DLC didn't make them enjoy it less and I'm sure the ending to inFAMOUS sold them on the game. In the end, I always tell people to find reviewers they agree with and stick to their work.
Reviews SHOULDN'T be an opinion. They should review what works and what doesn't. Things can be judges objectively (such as frame rate, UI choices, control sensitivity, and so on).
If someone is in a bad mood when they review a game, it can skew the score. The opposite is also true, and it's not right.
I'm also a huge believer that $$ has a lot to do with it (advertising on a site, for example).
Totally objective reviews are hard to accomplish, and regardless of how fair and balanced you try and be, someone is always going to be unhappy. It's just important to remember that a review is one person's perspective, and reviews should be a guideline, but not the standard, by which one buys games.
Most ratings systems are fundamentally broken anyway. People tend to view 5's or other mid-line scores as a "bad" score, instead of what it should be – middle-of-the-road or mediocre. I think the letter grade rankings work much better, because most people associate a 'C' with being 'average.' It's a shame that so much emphasis is placed on metacritic ratings, even determining bonuses and pay for developers. It's just an incredibly flawed system.
Finally: I think that it would be better for reviewers to be familiar with, or even a fan of, the genre of game they are reviewing. I don't watch sports, nor do I know much about sports, so I wouldn't really have any business reviewing a Madden title. I also don't know much about the higher mechanics of fighting games, or what desirable attributes of fighting games are, so I would just rather leave that alone. By that same token, I see people all the time reviewing, say, JRPGs, and it seems like they went into the review already deciding that they wouldn't like the title, because they don't generally like or play JRPGs. That's rather unfair, in my opinion.