Video Games Critic Tries to Math the Problem of Review Scores

Thomas Mahler of Moon Studios—the creators of the Ori games—has made a new review aggregate site called Video Games Critic. The whole pitch is to reflect the current state of a game instead of the launch state. Here's Thomas in the announcement tweet: "The other big problem: Those sites rate a game once, at launch, and then never really touch it again. But that's not how games work anymore. A game can launch rough and get patched shortly after, but on Metacritic and OpenCritic it carries that scarlet letter forever." This makes a lot of sense from the guy who said his studio was in danger when their early access title was "review bombed." There is quite the page explaining how the aggregation works, but the gist seems to press the scales in favor of current Steam reviews, while critics, creators, and other aggregators take a smaller slice of the the total. Outlets are also rated and weighed by their alignment to those Steam reviews. I think this approach makes a ton of sense given the…