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GameRankings
URL	GameRankings.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Gaming
Owner	CBS Interactive
Created by	Scott Bedard
Launched	1999
Current status	Active

GameRankings is a website which keeps track of video game reviews from other sites, and combines them to present an average rating for each game. It indexes over 315,000 articles relating to more than 14,500 games. The Ratings show the general critical opinion about a game; thus, Gamerankings has become an important measure of how well-developed a game is.^[1] The site is owned by CBS Interactive. Similar websites include GameRatio, GameStats, Metacritic, MobyGames, and TopTenReviews.

[edit] Rankings

GameRankings collects and links to (but does not host) reviews from other websites and magazines and averages specific ones.^[2] While hundreds of reviews may get listed, only the ones that GameRankings deems notable are used for the average. Scores are culled from numerous American and European sources. The site uses a percentage grade for all reviews in order to be able to calculate an average, however, because not all sites use the same scoring system (some rate out of 5 or 10, while others use a letter grade), GameRankings changes all other types of scores into percentages using a relatively straightforward conversion process.^[3]^[4]

When a game has a certain number of reviews, it is given a ranking compared to all other games in the database and a ranking compared to games on its console.

[edit] Site Inclusion Rules

There are fairly specific rules that GameRankings follows to determine which review sites are used in calculating a game's overall score. From the GameRankings Help page, they are:

Sites must have at least 300 archived reviews for a multi-system/multi-genre sites, or 100 reviews for single-system or genre sites.
Sites must publish a minimum of 15 reviews a month.
Sites must be visually appealing and look professional.
Sites must review a variety of titles.
Sites must have a dedicated domain name with professional hosting.
Site reviews must be well written.
Sites must conduct themselves in a professional manner.^[5]

However, some sites that follow these rules are not included, such as sites in non-English languages.^[6]

Some notable sites whose scores are included:

[edit] Site Structure

[edit] Game Search Engine

The search engine provided by Gamerankings enables the user to search games based on these filters:

Platform
Genre
Released Year
Number of Reviews provided
Starting Letter

[edit] Game Page

Each game owns a page consisting these tabs:

[edit] Home

Home Page shows the overall score,overall Game Rank and game rank on the platform, a short description about the game, game's boxshot, game availability on other platforms and their respective overall scores, latest articles relating to the game, and also several links to partner sites like gamespot and gamefaqs.

[edit] Reviews

This page shows all the sites that reviewed the game and their scores.this page also includes Cover Stories, Previews, Interviews, News, Screenshots, and movie articles retrieved from different sites.

[edit] Cheats

The page includes all the cheat codes and game secrets available at the time.

[edit] Images

Includes Game box shots and screenshots retrieved from gamespot.

[edit] Check Prices

This tab is a direct link to gamespot's Check Prices section.

[edit] Site Overhaul

On February 16, 2009, the site was temporarily shut down. It reopened on March 2, 2009 with most of the previous functionality removed, and new design highly similar to Gamefaqs.com.^[8]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

GameRankings
"High Scores Matter To Game Makers, Too", The Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2007.

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