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2026-05-24 games   GameSpot’s Vampire Crawlers review is an auto-farm of adjectives GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-21 games   IGN gave Anthem a 6.5/10. BioWare gutted itself trying to save it. Then killed it anyway. IGN 3/10
2026-05-21 games   IGN gave No Man's Sky an 8/10. It took Hello Games 8 years to make that true. IGN 2/10
2026-05-20 games   GameSpot gave Red Dead Redemption 2 an 8/10. The Metacritic average was 97. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-20 games   GameSpot gave Red Dead Redemption 2 an 8/10. The Metacritic average was 97. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-20 games   Kotaku called Suicide Squad a 'damn good shooter.' Rocksteady's live service lasted 346 days. Kotaku 2/10
2026-05-20 movies   Roger Ebert gave Cop and a Half 3.5/4. Half a star less than Schindler's List. RogerEbert.com 2/10
2026-05-19 games   GameSpot titled their Dragon Age: The Veilguard review 'Return to Form.' EA fired BioWare's writers three months later. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-19 games   IGN gave Madden NFL 24 a 7/10. Just like Madden 23. And Madden 22. And Madden 21. IGN 2/10
2026-05-19 movies   Variety called Joker: Folie à Deux 'bolder than the original.' Audiences gave it a D CinemaScore. Variety 2/10
2026-05-18 games   Game Informer gave Marvel's Avengers an 8/10. Square Enix sold the studio. Game Informer 2/10
2026-05-18 games   GameSpot called Pokémon Scarlet/Violet 'undercooked' and gave it an 8/10 anyway GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-18 games   Kotaku called Final Fantasy XVI 'the best Final Fantasy in ages.' Square Enix lost $2 billion in market cap. Kotaku 2/10
2026-05-17 games   GameSpot gave No Man's Sky a 7/10. PlayStation had to rewrite their refund policy because of it. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-17 games   IGN gave Metal Gear Solid V a 10/10. Konami had fired its director two months earlier. IGN 2/10
2026-05-17 music   Pitchfork gave Liz Phair a 0.0. Her previous album got a 9.0 from them. Pitchfork 1/10
2026-05-16 movies   GameSpot gave The Flash a 6/10. Phil Owen did not mention its star had felony charges pending. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-16 games   IGN gave Watch Dogs an 8.4/10. The most documented graphical downgrade in gaming history is not mentioned once. IGN 2/10
2026-05-16 movies   Roger Ebert gave Speed 2: Cruise Control three stars. It won the Razzie for Worst Picture. RogerEbert.com 2/10
2026-05-15 movies   The Guardian gave Dune: Part Two 5 stars and forgot to review the movie The Guardian 3/10
2026-05-15 games   IGN gave Overwatch a 9.4/10. Blizzard thanked them by deleting the game. IGN 3/10
2026-05-15 music   Pitchfork gave Jet's Shine On a 0.0. The 'review' was a video of a chimpanzee. Pitchfork 2/10
2026-05-14 games   Kotaku called Concord 'a damn fine shooter.' It was shut down 14 days after launch. Kotaku 1/10
2026-05-14 games   Polygon gave Bayonetta 2 a 7.5. The Metacritic average was 91. Polygon 2/10
2026-05-14 games   Polygon gave SimCity 9.5/10. Then 8.0. Then lower. The servers were down the whole time. Polygon 2/10
2026-05-13 movies   Empire gave Indiana Jones 5 four stars. Disney lost $100 million on it. Empire 2/10
2026-05-13 games   Eurogamer gave Cyberpunk 2077 'Recommended.' Sony pulled it from the PlayStation Store. Eurogamer 2/10
2026-05-13 games   Eurogamer gave Cyberpunk 2077 'Recommended.' Sony pulled it from the PlayStation Store. Eurogamer 2/10
2026-05-13 movies   IGN gave the Halo TV show a 7/10. Master Chief takes off his helmet in episode 1. IGN 2/10
2026-05-13 movies   IGN gave the Halo TV show a 7/10. Master Chief takes off his helmet in episode 1. IGN 2/10
2026-05-13 music   Rolling Stone gave Metallica's St. Anger 4/5 stars. The snare drum got a 0. Rolling Stone 2/10
2026-05-12 games   GamesRadar gave Skull and Bones 3/5. Ubisoft called it a 'AAAA game.' They were not joking. GamesRadar 2/10
2026-05-12 games   Kotaku Spent 6 Hours Not Getting A Gun In Palworld. The Game Hit 25 Million Players. Kotaku 2/10
2026-05-12 games   PC Gamer gave Marvel's Avengers a 65. Square Enix wrote off $200 million and sold the studio. PC Gamer 3/10
2026-05-11 movies   Forbes called Madame Web 'a unique addition to the Marvel universe.' Sony shelved the entire Spider-Verse. Forbes 1/10
2026-05-11 games   GameSpot gave Battlefield 2042 a 7/10. GameSpot then reported on its 33,000 negative Steam reviews. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-11 games   IGN gave Halo Infinite an 8. Co-op took eleven months to ship. The DLC never did. IGN 3/10
2026-05-10 games   IGN gave Gotham Knights a 7. The 'next-gen only' PS5 game runs at 30fps. IGN 2/10
2026-05-10 games   IGN gave Forspoken a 6/10. Square Enix folded the studio. IGN 3/10
2026-05-10 games   IGN gave Gotham Knights a 7. The 'next-gen only' PS5 game runs at 30fps. IGN 2/10
2026-05-10 movies   Variety called Cats 'a purr-fectly bizarre experience.' It earned a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes and torched Universal's awards budget. Variety 2/10
2026-05-09 games   GameSpot gave Cyberpunk 2077 a 7/10 on PC. Sony pulled it from the PS Store 48 hours later. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-09 games   Kotaku recommended Starfield. Bethesda's concurrent players dropped 75% in six weeks. Kotaku 2/10
2026-05-09 music   Rolling Stone gave Chinese Democracy 4/5 stars. Axl Rose took 17 years to make it. Rolling Stone 2/10
2026-05-08 games   IGN gave Diablo Immortal a 7. It costs $110,000 to max your character. IGN 1/10
2026-05-08 games   IGN gave Overwatch 2 an 8/10. Blizzard deleted the game you already paid $40 for to make it happen. IGN 2/10
2026-05-08 food   The New York Times gave Guy Fieri's restaurant zero stars. The review became more famous than the restaurant. The New York Times 4/10
2026-05-07 games   GameSpot gave Concord a 7/10. Sony pulled the servers 12 days later. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-07 games   GameSpot gave Concord a 7/10. Sony pulled the servers 12 days later. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-07 games   IGN gave Mass Effect: Andromeda a 7.7. BioWare Montreal was dissolved four months later. IGN 2/10
2026-05-07 games   IGN gave Mass Effect: Andromeda a 7.7. BioWare Montreal was dissolved four months later. IGN 2/10
2026-05-07 games   IGN gave Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League a 5. Rocksteady's Arkham trilogy averaged 9.3. IGN 4/10
2026-05-06 games   IGN gave Pokémon Sword and Shield a 9.3. Fans had been building their teams since 2013. IGN 3/10
2026-05-06 games   Polygon gave Mass Effect Andromeda a 7.5. BioWare Montreal was dissolved three months later. Polygon 2/10
2026-05-06 games   Polygon gave Mass Effect Andromeda a 7.5. BioWare Montreal was dissolved three months later. Polygon 2/10
2026-05-06 tech   The Verge called Apple Vision Pro 'a remarkable achievement.' Apple slashed production within months. The Verge 3/10
2026-05-05 games   IGN gave Anthem a 6.8. The game shut down. The studio almost followed. IGN 2/10
2026-05-05 games   IGN gave Redfall a 6/10. Microsoft shut down Arkane Austin 12 months later. IGN 2/10
2026-05-05 games   Polygon gave No Man's Sky an 8. Sean Murray went into hiding for months. Polygon 2/10
2026-05-04 movies   GameSpot called Aquaman 2 'A Better Ending Than The DCEU Deserves' and gave it 8/10. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-04 movies   GameSpot called Aquaman 2 'A Better Ending Than The DCEU Deserves' and gave it 8/10. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-04 games   GameSpot scored Halo Infinite's campaign 9/10. Co-op wouldn't ship for another 8 months. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-04 movies   The Hollywood Reporter called The Flash a 'crowd-pleaser.' WB buried it 90 days later. The Hollywood Reporter 1/10
2026-05-04 games   Kotaku 'Liked' Forspoken. Square Enix dissolved the developer four months later. Kotaku 2/10
2026-05-04 games   Polygon gave Doom (2016) an 8.5 and also published 30 minutes of footage proving they couldn't play it Polygon 3/10
2026-05-03 tech   Engadget gave the Galaxy Note 7 a 91/100. Three weeks later it was banned from airplanes. Engadget 1/10
2026-05-03 movies   GameSpot gave The Marvels a 7/10. It became the biggest MCU flop of all time. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-03 games   IGN gave Immortals of Aveum an 8/10. The studio laid off 45% of its staff 23 days later. IGN 2/10
2026-05-03 games   IGN gave Pokemon Omega Ruby a 7.8. The deduction was for 'too much water.' IGN 1/10
2026-05-02 games   GameSpot gave Kane & Lynch a 6/10. Then they edited the review. Then they fired the reviewer. GameSpot 2/10
2026-05-02 games   Kotaku Published A 'Not A Review' Of Hogwarts Legacy. Their Own URL Has 'Review' In It. Kotaku 2/10
2026-04-30 movies   The Guardian gave Madame Web 3 stars. Sony's web caught another critic. The Guardian 2/10
2026-04-29 music   Pitchfork gave Liz Phair's album a 0.0. The lead single went top 40. Pitchfork 1/10
2026-04-29 movies   Roger Ebert gave Speed 2 three stars. The Razzies gave it Worst Sequel. RogerEbert.com 1/10
2026-04-28 games   IGN gave Dragon Age: The Veilguard a 9. EA fired the studio. IGN 2/10
2026-04-28 music   Pitchfork gave Greta Van Fleet a 1.6. The decimal point is doing more work than the band. Pitchfork 2/10
2026-04-27 games   IGN gave Star Wars Outlaws a 7. Ubisoft's stock cratered 20% the next month. IGN 2/10
2026-04-27 games   Polygon gave Persona 5 a 7.5. Metacritic average is 93. The math ain't mathing. Polygon 2/10
2026-04-26 games   Edge gave Cyberpunk 2077 a 9/10 before anyone could play it on console. GamesRadar 2/10
2026-04-26 games   IGN gave Skull and Bones a 6. Ubisoft called it a 'AAAA' game. IGN 2/10
2026-04-25 movies   Empire gave Indiana Jones 5 three stars. Disney lost $100 million. Empire 3/10
2026-04-23 games   GameInformer gave Starfield 9.25/10. GameStop owned the magazine. Now it's dead. GameInformer 2/10
2026-04-22 music   Pitchfork 'reviewed' Jet's album with a monkey peeing in its own mouth. Zero words. They got paid. Pitchfork 2/10
2026-04-21 games   The Guardian gave Tears of the Kingdom 5 stars. They gave Breath of the Wild 5 stars. It's the same map. The Guardian 3/10
2026-04-21 games   IGN gave Diablo IV a 9. It took Blizzard a year to earn it. IGN 3/10
2026-04-19 games   Kotaku 'Liked' Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. At 15 FPS, the math ain't mathing. Kotaku 2/10
2026-04-18 games   Kotaku 'Liked' Anthem. BioWare liked it so much they killed it. Kotaku 2/10
2026-04-17 games   Polygon reviewed Hogwarts Legacy but forgot to review the game. Polygon 2/10
2026-04-16 games   IGN gave Starfield a 7. That's literally their average score. IGN 5/10
2026-04-15 games   GameSpot gave Days Gone a 5/10. It sold 9 million copies. GameSpot 3/10
2026-04-15 games   IGN gave Battlefield 2042 a 7. The player count dropped 90% in three months. IGN 2/10
2026-04-15 games   IGN gave Evolve a 9. It evolved into a free-to-play game, then evolved into nothing. IGN 2/10
2026-04-15 games   IGN gave God Hand a 3/10. The user score is 8.3. That's not a gap, that's a canyon. IGN 1/10
2026-04-15 games   IGN gave Marvel's Avengers a 7. Square Enix shut it down and wrote off the entire project. IGN 2/10
2026-04-15 games   IGN gave The Last of Us Part II a 10. The user score is 5.7. IGN 3/10
2026-04-14 movies   GameSpot gave Madame Web a 6/10. The math ain't mathing. GameSpot 2/10
2026-04-14 games   IGN gave Cyberpunk 2077 a 9. Sony gave it a refund. IGN 2/10
2026-04-12 games   IGN gave Concord a 7. It was dead in 14 days. IGN 1/10
2026-04-12 games   IGN gave Death Stranding a 6.8. The decimal point was doing heavy lifting. IGN 3/10
2026-04-12 games   Kotaku reviewed 2024's highest-rated user game without giving it a score. Kotaku 2/10
2026-04-12 games   Kotaku 'Liked' Star Wars Outlaws. 834 Steam players on launch day had other plans. Kotaku 2/10
2026-04-12 games   Polygon docked Bayonetta 2 points because the protagonist was too sexy. Polygon 2/10
2026-04-08 games   IGN gave Alien: Isolation a 5.9 because the horror game was too scary IGN 2/10
2026-04-08 games   Kotaku called the best-selling game of 2024 'forgettable.' 20 million buyers disagree. Kotaku 2/10
2026-04-06 movies   GameSpot's Borderlands review is somehow more forgettable than the movie GameSpot 3/10
2026-04-01 games   IGN gave Hades II a 6 and Assassin's Creed Mirage an 8. Let that sink in. IGN 1/10
2026-04-01 games   IGN gave Suicide Squad a 5 and every negative came with a 'but' IGN 4/10
2026-04-01 books   Kirkus recommended Fourth Wing while listing zero things it does well Kirkus Reviews 7/10
2026-04-01 games   'Marathon fucking rules' is not a review, Kotaku. It's a bumper sticker. Kotaku 4/10
2026-04-01 movies   Screen Rant credited the director for the cinematography. Different job, Screen Rant. Screen Rant 3/10
2026-03-30 books   16 Stephen King books, 16 starred reviews. Kirkus hasn't blinked since 2010. Kirkus Reviews 3/10
2026-03-25 food   The internet mocked this 85-year-old's Olive Garden review. Bourdain didn't. Grand Forks Herald 8/10
2026-03-22 tech   MKBHD called it the worst product he ever reviewed. The company cried. MKBHD 8/10
2026-03-15 movies   GameSpot gave The Acolyte an 8. It was cancelled after one season. GameSpot 1/10
2026-03-14 games   IGN reviewed a different Dragon's Dogma 2 than the one you bought IGN 2/10
2026-03-10 games   Kotaku is mad that Resident Evil feels like Resident Evil. In 2026. Kotaku 6/10
2026-03-05 tech   The Verge gave a 7/10 to a $3,500 headset most buyers returned The Verge 3/10
2026-02-27 music   11 negative sentences, 1 positive sentence, and Pitchfork gave it a 6.0 Pitchfork 3/10
2026-02-22 movies   Empire listed 3 flaws and gave Dune Part Two a 5/5 anyway Empire Magazine 3/10
2026-02-20 games   GameSpot compared Alan Wake 2 to David Lynch. Lynch would sue. GameSpot 5/10
2026-02-20 games   Kotaku published a full review of a game they couldn't finish. Literally. Kotaku 3/10
2026-02-15 food   Eater's Best Restaurants list never mentions prices. Not once. Ever. Eater 3/10
2026-02-15 games   Kotaku's Nioh 3 review argues with itself for 1,500 words. Both sides lose. Kotaku 5/10
2026-02-14 movies   IGN reviewed 1,100 episodes of source material without watching any of it IGN 2/10
2026-02-10 music   A 58-year-old man reviewed Sabrina Carpenter for Rolling Stone and it shows Rolling Stone 4/10
2026-01-30 games   Kotaku called a game 'comfy' and 'satisfying.' We fell asleep reading it. Kotaku 4/10
2026-01-20 movies   Empire's George Miller scores average 4.7/5. He could film paint drying. Empire 2/10
2026-01-20 food   The NYT gave 4 stars to a restaurant 99.7% of readers can't afford The New York Times 4/10
2026-01-18 music   Pitchfork gave Kid A a 9.0 in 2000. The reissue got a 10. The music didn't change. Pitchfork 2/10
2026-01-18 tech   The Verge wrote 'we don't know why you'd buy this' and gave it a 7 The Verge 4/10
2026-01-15 games   IGN wrote 2,000 words about BG3 without a single negative sentence IGN 6/10
2026-01-08 tech   Consumer Reports tested your mattress with a robot. Not a person. A robot. Consumer Reports 3/10
2026-01-08 movies   A 12% Rotten Tomatoes film got a 'Mixed' from THR. Follow the ad money. The Hollywood Reporter 2/10
2025-12-18 movies   We found a Variety review that's actually good and we're shook Variety 8/10
2025-12-10 games   IGN and Pokemon: from 'too much water' to whatever this is IGN 3/10
2025-12-08 tech   CNET forgot to review the actual phone and had to publish a second article CNET 3/10
2025-12-08 games   Spider-Man 2 added a second Spider-Man and IGN added two more points IGN 2/10
2025-12-05 music   Autechre spent 30 years being 'too weird.' They made a quiet album. RA punished them. Resident Advisor 2/10
2025-12-05 music   Rolling Stone reviewed Tyler's real estate. The album was mentioned briefly. Rolling Stone 3/10
2025-12-05 tech   Wired gave a broken $199 gadget a 4/10 because the case is orange Wired 2/10
2025-12-03 games   Eurogamer's thesis: 'It's basically BOTW again.' The score: perfect. Eurogamer 4/10
2025-11-18 games   IGN said 'charming' 3 times and 'framerate' once. The game ran at 20fps. IGN 2/10
2025-11-15 movies   Empire's reviewer clearly watched The Substance through her fingers Empire 5/10
2025-11-03 games   IGN gave an RPG an 8/10 for having great action and no RPG elements IGN 4/10
2025-11-03 games   IGN's SF6 review has 1 paragraph on fighting and 11 on avatar customization IGN 1/10
2025-11-03 books   The NYT called American Dirt a 'Homeric epic.' Two weeks later, everyone disagreed. The New York Times 2/10
2025-11-03 games   120 critics, 47 perfect 10s, and a standard deviation that screams herd OpenCritic 4/10
2025-10-17 games   IGN buried the MK1 microtransactions in the second-to-last paragraph IGN 3/10
2025-10-08 movies   Variety spent 3 paragraphs explaining what a Pope is. In a Conclave review. Variety 5/10
2025-10-07 books   600,000 ratings, 4.38 stars, and 23% of reviews say 'nothing new' Goodreads 5/10
2025-10-03 games   The Ubisoft 8: IGN's most reliable annual tradition since 2012 IGN 2/10
2025-10-03 movies   Roger Ebert's site gave a Mattel ad 4/4. He's rolling in his grave. RogerEbert.com 3/10
2025-09-30 movies   Empire gave 11 films a perfect 5/5 in six months. Perfection is cheap. Empire 3/10
2025-09-22 books   The Guardian trashed a book that outsold every Booker winner of the decade The Guardian 4/10
2025-09-22 games   IGN reviewed Diablo 4 at a Blizzard event. On Blizzard hardware. It got a 9. IGN 2/10
2025-09-22 games   22% of this 10/10 review is criticism. We did the math. IGN 3/10
2025-09-15 games   Polygon reviewed a PS2 game remake like nobody played the original Polygon 4/10
2025-09-03 games   Destructoid gave No Man's Sky a 5/10 in 2016. They never updated it. Ever. Destructoid 1/10
2025-09-02 games   Every Sony exclusive gets an 8 or 9 at GameSpot. Every. Single. One. GameSpot 3/10
2025-08-22 games   We ran a diff checker on IGN's EA FC reviews. 73% identical. Year over year. IGN 1/10
2025-08-20 games   Polygon praised a 5-hour walking simulator for being 'the start of something' Polygon 3/10
2025-08-12 games   Destructoid's Erdtree review follows the same template as their last 400 reviews Destructoid 4/10
2025-08-12 games   IGN listed 6 flaws and still gave Hogwarts Legacy a 9. We counted. IGN 3/10
2025-08-12 games   IGN's Starfield reviewer confessed in paragraph 12. We read the whole thing. IGN 3/10
2025-08-12 movies   IndieWire reviewed a Ridley Scott film by fact-checking Wikipedia IndieWire 2/10
2025-08-12 movies   The NYT reviewed a nuclear bomb movie without mentioning cinema once The New York Times 4/10
2025-08-12 tech   Wirecutter's 'Budget Pick' is $350. Their 'budget' isn't your budget. Wirecutter 2/10
2025-07-22 music   Rob Sheffield has called every Eilish album 'brilliant.' The word means nothing now. Rolling Stone 3/10
2025-07-18 movies   The AV Club gave David Lynch's final film a C-minus. Time disagreed. The A.V. Club 2/10
2025-07-15 games   Polygon's entire Erdtree review: 'it's hard, you die, it's great.' That's it. Polygon 3/10
2025-07-14 movies   The Guardian gave 4 films a perfect 5/5 the same year. Everything is breathtaking. The Guardian 3/10
2025-07-14 games   IGN gave Cyberpunk a 9 while Sony was pulling it from the store IGN 2/10
2025-06-30 games   GameSpot gave Starfield a 7 and somehow that counted as bravery GameSpot 7/10
2025-06-20 music   Pitchfork gave Midnights an 8.3 without naming a single influence Pitchfork 3/10
2025-06-20 games   Polygon called a patch note a 'love letter.' We are reviewing patch notes now. Polygon 6/10
2025-06-18 books   Kirkus reviewed a domestic abuse novel in 300 words. That's the whole review. Kirkus Reviews 4/10
2025-06-15 games   IGN has never given a Call of Duty below 6 or above 9. It's a cron job. IGN 2/10
2025-06-15 tech   0.5% of gamers can afford the RTX 4090. It got Editor's Choice anyway. Tom's Hardware 3/10
2025-06-10 music   Rolling Stone reviewed a 78-minute album in under 24 hours. All 27 tracks. Rolling Stone 2/10
2025-06-01 games   Polygon praised Dragon's Dogma 2 exploration. The game had no fast travel. Polygon 5/10