Game On: Metacritic change hinders consumer reviews

In late June, I penned the article “The Last of Us Part II highlights Metacritic issues,” and it seems they agree. A Metacritic official announced that the review aggregator will henceforth delay the ability to submit user reviews for newly released video games for the first 36 hours.

I Hate Running Backwards - Metacritic

Baldur's Gate 3 is Currently the Highest-Rated PC Game to Date on Both Metacritic and Opencritic

metacritic 99/100 score - highest scored game by them : r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC

22.5 years of game reviews : r/gaming

Metacritic user score got removed. Hopefully they're cleaning up those fake scores (on both sides) : r/thelastofus

Soulstice - Metacritic

Fun fact: Tears of the Kingdom has the most 10/10 out of any game ever. : r/tearsofthekingdom

Godstrike - Metacritic

Why review scores are dead, Opinion

Aspire: Ina's Tale - Metacritic

About Us - Metacritic

Metacritic and the Business of Games, by Michael R. Keller

Metacritic changes its user review policy to combat score bombing