GameRankings was a video gaming

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that was founded in 1999 and owned by

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. It indexed over 315,000 articles relating to more than 14,500 video games. GameRankings was discontinued in December 2019, with its staff being merged with the similar aggregator

Metacritic Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created ...

Rankings

GameRankings collected and linked to (but did not host) reviews from other websites and magazines and averages specific ones. While hundreds of reviews may get listed, only the ones that GameRankings deemed notable were used for the average. Scores were culled from numerous American and European sources. The site used 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 changed all other types of scores into percentages using a relatively straightforward conversion process An A+ was simply 100% or 10/10 and an A was at 95%, and so forth with the same five percent increment; the average unlike Metacritic avoided opinionated weight systems for rankings, as it used a simple mean of every ranking from all the accredited websites reviewing that game. When a game accumulated six total reviews, it was given a

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compared to all other games in the database and a ranking compared to games on its console. At the time of the site's closure in December 2019, seven games had an aggregate score of 97% or higher: '' Super Mario Galaxy'', '' The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'', '' Super Mario Odyssey'', '' Super Mario Galaxy 2'', '' The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Discontinuation

GameRankings was shut down and redirected to

, another review aggregator, on December 9, 2019.

References

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"High Scores Matter To Game Makers, Too"
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The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscriptio ...

'', September 20, 2007.
"Video games: Aiming to please?"
'' StarTribune'', June 7, 2008.
"Things that suck about video game reviews"
, ''That Videogame Blog'', April 2, 2008.
"Do Review Scores Really Matter?"
''Dpad Magazine'', June 11, 2010. {{Video Game Critics Defunct CBS Interactive websites Internet properties established in 1999 Internet properties disestablished in 2019 Online game databases Video game review aggregators