Variety assigns its own scores to games and passes them along to Metacritic, just like certain other entities that publish text-only reviews in their own format but want to get picked up by an aggregator. Known quantity people. Not a newsworthy story. Whoever decided without so much as an email inquiry's worth of research that Metacritic was assigning those scores is just another headline-schlepping imbecile. View

Why turn this into a media conspiracy about fanboy console wars? Maybe it's just what it seems to be, someone presenting an alternative and by no means dogmatic opinion about the camera. View