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This week's Steam news update tells the tale of a Steam and Metacritic tag-team to further enhance the Steam store.
As most of you know, using Steam to get new games is easy. Just browse for something interesting and pretty soon you're saving Darwinians or driving a Russian tank.But we want it to be even easier for you to decide which games might be right for you, so we've just added an important feature to Steam:Adding scores to the Steam store? Seems like a fairly good idea there. It'll certainly help give potential buyers a better idea of if they'll actually enjoy a game or not before purchasing it.
Starting today, games available for purchase in the Steam store will display their Metascore® (from metacritic.com), which is a numeric measure of the game's critical consensus at a glance. The Metascore is created by taking a weighted average of critic grades. We really couldn't think of a more honest, efficient, and independent source of information about game quality. We hope you agree.
By the way! Congratulations to Introversion are in order, because their game Darwinia just won the Grand Prize at this year's Independent Games Festival. Nice work, guys! (Hardly surprising; Darwinia's Metascore is 85!)
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