@olddadgamer: That's a longer assignment so I wanted to call attention to it without taking on more than I had time for. A game I'm reviewing right now is taking up a lot of my time, so consider this a hands-on preview--it's just the game launches today. I also did it recently with Dreamcore, and tend to like to do this for indie horror games because there are so many good ones that go under the radar.
Edit: Also a review for a game few have heard of may go unnoticed like the game, whereas with something like this we can title it differently to say, "Hey, don't miss this." The point is to direct people to a neat game I played, so it's better this way sometimes.
@swantn5: Yeah this is basically the cadence of every sports game. We won't hear about Madden 26 til June either, and then it comes out in August. I am usually previewing NBA 2K in August and then it launches in September. Standard stuff. MLB The Show was revealed this week and launches just before baseball season starts, too.
@princeyami29: They told me the game just doesn't differentiate between men and women matches now, including even the Royal Rumble. The only match that this mix still matters is the Mixed Tag, since that's the whole stipulation. In other matches, you can just pit men against women any way you'd like. This is much more common in the indie scene, so it makes sense they finally allow it during peak Rhea-Dom heat, haha.
@Vodoo: We determine our Top 10 and GOTY by way of a multi-day debate that includes the whole team. Few games, if any, are ever played by all of us, but Metaphor was the winner after all the dust settled and all the arguments were considered. Many people on the team played and adored Metaphor.
@phili878: I wasn't working here then so I can't speak to this firsthand, but I can say I've been writing online for 13 years and I've never seen one example of what you describe here. There's an embargo, so it's usually the case that different outlets are publishing simultaneously and we don't know each other's scores until we all learn them at the same time.
@miguelgreene: I appreciate the concern but this sincerely isn't the case. It's a bit inside-baseball, but how this occurs is that if the doc is open in two places--as in from two different users--the one saved second may overwrite the first one, so unfortunately it was just a CMS mix-up. I helped edit this one myself and I saw it was meant as a 7 before it was published. We don't care what others are scoring things in relation to our scores--plus, last I saw, it has an aggregate 77 anyway.
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