GiantBomb VS OpenCritic

On an article at giantbomb.com I found this about the 2017 Arcade game. Source: over 1 year ago

A little off topic here but I was watching a video game stream yesterday (Giant Bomb) and one of the hosts mentioned he was going through hell trying to find a new EV. I mentioned in the chat that he should consider an Ioniq 5 and he then replied back saying that's exactly the one he was interested in! Knowing he lived in NJ I recommended he speak to Shawn at Fred Beans and I just received a msg back saying he... Source: almost 2 years ago

Giantbomb faces a chicken and egg problem. Sure they can double down on the suggestions for premium that is being circulated in this thread, but then your audience size and subscription base stays relatively small. They need the subscriptions and their content to grow, and the best way to do that is not giantbomb.com in 2022: it's YouTube. Only then can you convert folks to go to the website for the premium... Source: over 2 years ago

At the end of the day entities like Giant Bomb are comprised of two sets of things: The first is technical things like paperwork that says Giant Bomb is a company, the logo tied to it, the url giantbomb.com, etc... And the second thing is the content and people. Source: almost 3 years ago

I don't think that is very accurate, in my experience the most popular reviews are Personality Driven and it is largely done in the youtube space, the next most popular writen sites are also more neutral when it comes to their reviews (Gamespot, IGN, Gameinformer, Eurogamer). Honestly people just want two things, to hear their favorite content creator talk about the game or have someone say how great it is. But in... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Check out the hall of fame at https://opencritic.com/ instead - no remakes/remasters/ports allowed, so it's all new games (ignoring Trails to Azure, though it's being released worldwide for the first time). Source: about 1 year ago

Am I the only one that finds Opencritic to be much better at visualizing the reviews? Source: about 1 year ago

Import requests Import urllib.parse Games = ['onion asault','Untitled Goose Game','COD'] #need these headers else they know you are scraping and tell you to go get a api key lol Headers = { 'accept':'application/json, text/plain, */*', 'origin':'https://opencritic.com', 'referer':'https://opencritic.com/', 'user-agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36... Source: about 1 year ago

Metacritic blows. Rotten tomatoes isn't the best but it's much better than Metacritic for TV and movies and Opencritic is a million times better for video games. Source: over 1 year ago