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Eurogamer Drops Review Scores
This was most upvoted item over on /r/games today. In a brave move, from today Eurogamer no longer does review scores.
Starting today with our review of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D, Eurogamer is making the biggest change we’ve ever made to the way we review games. From now on, we will no longer be scoring games out of ten.
Good on them. A short review summary says so much more than a number ever could. I’d like to see more critics move to such a system.
Interestingly they’ll still be attributing a score to the item within the source code of the page, in order maintain their performance within Google. A search result with the stars present draws more attention and is more likely to get clicked.
When searching for reviews in Google, however, you will still see star ratings attached to Eurogamer reviews: five stars for Essential, four for Recommended, one for Avoid, three for everything else.
This is how the Majora’s Mask review appears within Google:
Read the official announcement over on Eurogamer.
