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Also known as Game Rankings, gamerankings.com

GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive. 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.

Key facts

Website.name
GameRankings
Website.logo
GameRankings (logo).png
Website.logo_alt
GameRankings logo
Website.commercial
Yes
Website.type
Gaming
Website.successor
Metacritic
Website.owner
CBS Interactive
Website.author
Scott Bedard
Website.launch_date
1999
Website.current_status
Shut down in 2019; redirected to Metacritic

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.gamerankings.com
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Alexa rank
44152
inception
1999-01-01
language of work or name
English language
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2019-12-09
hashtag
GameRankings
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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Rankings
  • Discontinuation
  • References
  • External links

GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive. 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.

== 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GameRankings” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.