Hey folks, I'm launching a website today: videogamescritic.com It started as a little database I built for myself. I use Metacritic and OpenCritic a lot and they're clearly useful, but to me as a designer the user experience always felt a bit lacking. Then the thing kept growing, and at some point I realized it had become genuinely useful for any gamer, not just me. So here it is, for everyone. My main problem with the existing aggregators: Their scores tell you how the press felt about a game, not how players did. That made sense 20 years ago. I cared a lot what GameSpot gave a game back then. But today we can actually measure how players felt, and to me that will always matter more than how the press did. On videogamescritic.com, players hold at least two-thirds of every score, by rule. Press still counts, it just can't outvote the people who bought the game. The other big problem: Those sites rate a game once, at launch, and then never really touch it again. But that's not how games work anymore. A game can launch rough and get patched shortly after, but on Metacritic and OpenCritic it carries that scarlet letter forever. No Man's Sky is the obvious example: Famously rocky launch, and Hello Games has spent the years since relentlessly improving it. Its Metacritic score has never moved. On videogamescritic.com it launched at 50 and sits at 82 today, because scores here are LIVE: launch-era reviews fade out over time, and reviews written after a significant patch count the most. When player sentiment changes, the number changes. Simple. And since press does still count, I ended up reviewing the reviewers too. Every outlet and creator gets a trust score based on one question: When they reviewed a game, did players end up agreeing? You can see who consistently calls games the way players see them, and who doesn't. Again, simple and fair. And everything is transparent. Every game page shows exactly how its score was computed, and the full methodology is public. No editorial opinion, no magic number. Anyway, I hope you get a kick out of it! Even just as a way to see the best games on each platform, find something you missed, or browse a site that isn't wallpapered in ads, I think it's already pretty useful. Enjoy!👍❤️

Do you know what will make it an even tougher watch? Knowing that watching this show will put money in JK Rowling's pockets that will allow her to keep funding trans genocide.

ah so your a homophobe who hates the mentally ill

This is what first-person gameplay will look like in GTA 6

USAID funding was used for terrorism

The developers of the Steam game Final Sentence posted an honest announcement on the game’s page. They titled it “DON’T BUY THIS GAME” and urged players not to buy it at full price right now. Instead, they recommend waiting for the upcoming sale. The devs wrote: “Save a couple bucks for a coffee or a compressed air duster for your keyboard. Seriously, that thing is worth buying.” The game has gathered nearly 350,000 wishlists on Steam. We need more honest devs like this

This isn't Shiva. It's more likely adapted from proto-Elamite iconography, showing an Eurasian deity "lord of animals." Indian history is amazing, wonderful, and fantastic -- It's well worth getting it right.

I'm always amazed at what you can buy off alibaba, but this has to be the most brutal ad ever...

Is sharing Talmud quotes the most effective way to wake up normies? You don't even have to say a word, our enemies are so arrogant that they expose themselves constantly.

LET THEM FUCKING COOOOOOOK

what does this picture teach you?

Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time ever. It was the last place on Earth that was Mosquito-free.

The Trump administration has authorized the continued use of cancer-causing pesticide atrazine. Atrazine is banned in more than 60 countries.

The EU has more free speech than America? Europeans can literally be sent to jail over social media posts.

California was supposed to be a utopia… democrats have completely destroyed the state.

🇯🇵 This 573-year-old Daihoji Temple in Japan, a national treasure with priceless artworks, got completely destroyed in a MASSIVE fire Centuries of culture vanishing overnight...