61 Frames Per Second would like to salute our print peers over at Play Magazine and editor-in-chief Brady Fiechter for their decision to run game reviews without letter grades or numerical scores. It’s a bold move for a print publication whose audience spends more time scrutinizing scores than what’s actually written about a game. While I’ve had my own issues with some of Play’s editorial content in the past, this is an important move for games journalism and, ultimately, for games. When publishers stop making review score averages the basis for what games get released and what developers get funded, videogames as a medium will be a whole lot healthier.
Here’s to you guys.
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