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2026-08-19 games GameSpot gave Dragon Quest Treasures a 7 after calling its unavoidable combat the worst part. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-18 games GameSpot reviewed High On Life with three bylines and one shared brain cell holding the controller. GameSpot 3/10

2026-08-17 games GameSpot reviewed Oxenfree II like a therapy session interrupted by one annoying guy on a walkie-talkie. GameSpot 3/10

2026-08-16 movies GameSpot reviewed Civil War after one viewing and then requested two more viewings mid-review. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-15 games GameSpot gave Marvel Rivals an 8 while calling $23 skins 'fairly standard.' GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-14 games GameSpot called Cabernet incredible after the finale soft-locked. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-13 games GameSpot called One Piece Odyssey filler, then scored the filler like a passing grade. GameSpot 3/10

2026-08-12 games GameSpot gave Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred a 9 while apologizing for not spoiling the brochure. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-11 movies GameSpot gave Knuckles a 6 because the best Knuckles episode barely has Knuckles. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-10 games GameSpot reviewed Crash Team Rumble, found a tiny $40 live-service lobby, and still tried to call it fresh. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-09 games GameSpot reviewed Sunderfolk like a group hangout and forgot to separate the game from the couch. GameSpot 3/10

2026-08-08 games GameSpot gave The Plucky Squire a 9 because the pages turned nicely. GameSpot 3/10

2026-08-06 games Kotaku reviewed Dragon Age: Inquisition by first reviewing the word fantasy. Kotaku 2/10

2026-08-05 games GameSpot reviewed The Expanse: A Telltale Series with three episodes and five episodes at the same time. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-04 games GameSpot gave Rhythm Heaven Groove an 8 while admitting the rhythm part breaks on a TV. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-03 games GameSpot called Lost Records one of Don't Nod's best games before the review had finished reviewing. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-02 games GameSpot called Black Flag Resynced a bad remake, then gave it a 7. GameSpot 2/10

2026-08-01 movies GameSpot gave Avatar: The Way of Water a 4/10. It made $2.3 billion anyway. GameSpot 2/10

2026-07-31 movies GameSpot reviewed one episode of Uzumaki and declared the spiral solved. GameSpot 2/10

2026-07-30 games GameSpot gave College Football 25 an 8 while waving at pay-to-win from a moving bus. GameSpot 2/10

2026-07-29 movies GameSpot reviewed four of six Loki episodes and complained the mystery was unfinished. GameSpot 2/10

2026-07-26 movies Kotaku reviewed Jurassic World Rebirth as "half a good movie" and never showed the math Kotaku 2/10

2026-07-22 movies GameSpot gave Ahsoka a 2/10 after watching exactly 25% of it GameSpot 3/10

2026-07-21 games IGN gave Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora a 7. You could have predicted that score in 2021. IGN 2/10

2026-07-20 movies GameSpot gave Deadpool & Wolverine a 4. The Acolyte got an 8. GameSpot 2/10

2026-07-19 movies GameSpot called Eternals 'a gorgeous experiment.' The experiment failed peer review. GameSpot 3/10

2026-07-17 games Kotaku said Veilguard meant BioWare's future was safe. EA halved BioWare 90 days later. Kotaku 2/10

2026-07-16 games Kotaku reported everyone else's Shattered Space reviews while sitting on its own. 'It's complicated.' Kotaku 2/10

2026-07-15 movies GameSpot headlined its Morbius review "Dead On Arrival" and then gave it a 5/10. GameSpot 2/10

2026-07-13 games IGN gave Assassin's Creed Unity a 7.8 while players' faces fell off IGN 2/10

2026-07-12 games IGN gave The Callisto Protocol a 7. Of course it did. It's always a 7. IGN 2/10

2026-07-10 games Kotaku reviewed Metaphor: ReFantazio and wrote a political science dissertation instead. Kotaku 3/10

2026-07-07 games VideoGamer gave Resident Evil Requiem a 9/10. The reviewer doesn't have a pulse. VideoGamer 1/10

2026-07-05 games GameSpot Called Assassin's Creed Shadows' Story 'Muddled and Directionless.' Then Gave It An 8. GameSpot 2/10

2026-07-04 games GameSpot gave Borderlands 4 a 7/10 for being 'mechanically sound.' Weeks later GameSpot reported its own Steam revolt. GameSpot 2/10

2026-07-03 games Kotaku Reviewed Death Stranding 2 For Thousands Of Words And Never Once Landed On A Number Kotaku 2/10

2026-07-02 games GameSpot Admitted Monster Hunter Wilds "Has Issues," Then Gave It An 8 Anyway GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-29 games GameSpot reviewed Black Myth: Wukong and admitted the mythology flew over its head. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-28 movies GameSpot reviewed two episodes of Rings of Power and called it a review. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-27 games GameSpot gave Final Fantasy XVI a 9 after filing a bug report with confetti on it. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-26 games GameSpot gave Star Fox a 7 while literally saying it couldn't test the online multiplayer. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-26 games IGN gave Death Stranding a 6.8 because the walking simulator involved walking. IGN 2/10

2026-06-25 games GameSpot called Avowed "woefully balanced" and still gave it a 6/10. GameSpot 3/10

2026-06-24 games PC Gamer gave Elden Ring a 90 while reviewing a FromSoftware game for being too much like FromSoftware. PC Gamer 3/10

2026-06-23 games GameSpot gave Mortal Kombat 1 a soft landing on an old blueprint GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-22 movies GameSpot gave Five Nights at Freddy's Movie a 2/10 and called it a review GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-21 games GameSpot reviewed The Last of Us Part I twice in one trench coat. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-20 games Kotaku reviewed Assassin's Creed Shadows like a travel brochure with a controller attached. Kotaku 3/10

2026-06-19 games GameSpot gave Lego Horizon Adventures a 7 after describing Baby's First RPG with a calculator made of soup. GameSpot 3/10

2026-06-18 games GameSpot gave 007 First Light an 8 after admitting the driving is almost on rails. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-17 movies GameSpot watched two episodes of Secret Invasion and saw Andor in the smoke machine. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-17 games IGN gave Cyberpunk 2077 a 9/10 after reviewing the version regular humans could not buy. IGN 2/10

2026-06-16 games GameSpot gave Wild Bastards a 9/10 because apparently a busy ruleset is now a retirement plan. GameSpot 3/10

2026-06-16 games GamesRadar gave Redfall 4/5 and called it refreshing. The servers needed a wellness check. GamesRadar 2/10

2026-06-15 games Kotaku reviewed Mina the Hollower like a childhood diary with a controller attached Kotaku 3/10

2026-06-14 games GameSpot gave Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker a 9 after needing a five-person raid party to review it. GameSpot 3/10

2026-06-13 food Kotaku reviewed Burger King's Star Wars meal like the drive-thru was Cannes. Kotaku 3/10

2026-06-12 games IGN called Hogwarts Legacy the RPG they always wanted, then reviewed the wish instead of the game. IGN 3/10

2026-06-12 games IGN gave Star Wars Battlefront an 8 while listing the missing campaign like it was a decorative pothole. IGN 2/10

2026-06-11 games GameSpot reviewed Virtua Fighter 5 REVO after declaring lifelong emotional ownership of Virtua Fighter. GameSpot 3/10

2026-06-10 games GameSpot gave Silent Hill 2 Remake a 9 while admitting the survival horror had too much survival. GameSpot 3/10

2026-06-09 games IGN described Gollum as a game that does nothing, then still found four points in the couch. IGN 2/10

2026-06-08 games GameSpot called Kirby and the Forgotten Land the best Kirby yet while leaving 20% of Kirby un-inhaled. GameSpot 3/10

2026-06-07 games IGN gave Prey a 4/10 because one save file hurt its feelings. IGN 2/10

2026-06-07 games Kotaku spent 100 hours in Baldur's Gate 3 and still forgot to bring a scorecard. Kotaku 4/10

2026-06-06 movies GameSpot reviewed A Minecraft Movie like a birthday party chaperone with a Warner Bros. lanyard. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-06 games IGN docked Pokémon for having too much water. The region is literally an ocean. IGN 2/10

2026-06-05 games GameSpot gave Marathon a 9 while the URL still said review-in-progress. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-05 games IGN gave God Hand a 3/10 because the reviewer got punched by the learning curve. IGN 2/10

2026-06-04 games Kotaku reviewed Final Fantasy VII Rebirth with preorder links in the bloodstream. Kotaku 2/10

2026-06-04 games PC Gamer gave Cyberpunk 2077 a 78 while reviewing the one version that could survive the landing. PC Gamer 2/10

2026-06-04 tech The Verge reviewed Apple Vision Pro like a miracle, then described a $3,499 neck injury. The Verge 4/10

2026-06-03 movies GameSpot gave Agatha All Along an 8 after watching half the season and admitting it might fall apart. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-03 movies GameSpot gave Devil May Cry Season 2 a 9 after admitting it has no surprises. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-02 games GameSpot compared Pikmin 4 to a to-do list, then gave the to-do list an 8. GameSpot 3/10

2026-06-02 games GamesRadar gave Starfield 5/5 and called it Bethesda's best since Oblivion. The math left the planet. GamesRadar 2/10

2026-06-01 games GameSpot gave Backyard Baseball '97 an 8 after admitting the remaster forgot to remaster. GameSpot 2/10

2026-06-01 games IGN gave Starfield a 7/10, then spent 1,200 words politely orbiting the problem. IGN 4/10

2026-05-31 movies GameSpot reviewed four-sixths of Moon Knight and called it a review. GameSpot 2/10

2026-05-31 games IGN gave Alien: Isolation a 5.9 because the alien kept acting like an alien. IGN 2/10

2026-05-30 music Pitchfork gave Daft Punk's Discovery a 6.4, then history immediately unplugged their calculator. Pitchfork 2/10

2026-05-28 games GameSpot gave People of Note a 7/10 and still called out the exact reason it dies after Act 2 GameSpot 2/10

2026-05-27 tech CNET gave the Bose Ultra Open Earbuds an 8/10 for sounding like expensive earrings CNET 2/10

2026-05-26 games Elden Ring got the same amount of scrutiny as a press release after an IPO IGN 2/10

2026-05-25 games IGN called The Last of Us Part I definitive, then treated a remake like a clean-room investigation IGN 2/10

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 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