Good for Eurogamer, says I. This can't have been an easy decision. Being delisted from Metacritic is devastating to traffic, but Metacritic is part of the problem given its policies for how it handles such content. I've always been impressed with Eurogamer's writing, which generally stands on its own.

Scores are nice if you know what you're looking for and you want a quick reference. If you're looking for an average critical impression of something. If you're only tangentially interested in the product and don't want to read a whole review. Scores are fine for all that, but the system is messed up and untrustworthy. And, frankly, we have some really good writers in the game journalism world, writers whose words should be read. It's a disservice to their work if readers glean everything from a handful of numbers but ignore the arguments as to why those numbers are what they are.