Tomb Raider

By Nicholas Deleon Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld's metascore. Right now it's 78. That's not good enough, apparently. It's like this: Eidos, which publishes the game, instructed its PR firm to ask sites to hold off on publish...

By Nicholas Deleon Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld's metascore. Right now it's 78. That's not good enough, apparently. It's like this: Eidos, which publishes the game, instructed its PR firm to ask sites to hold off on publish...

Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld's metascore. Right now it's 78. That's not good enough, apparently. It's like this: Eidos, which publishes the game, ...

By Kris Pigna Tomb Raider: Underworld hit stores this week, and in an effort to craft a high early ranking on Metacritic, Eidos has tasked a PR firm to try and convince publications to hold off on their reviews if the scores are below a certain threshold (via Shacknews).

By Lee Bradley This one makes me feel grubby just typing it. It seems Eidos UK’s PR firm are attempting to control the Metacritic score of Tomb Raider: Underworld. The news originated when Gamespot UK journalist Guy Cocker revealed (via twitter) that Eidos was requesting reviews of less than 8.0 for the ga...

By Jon G. This story first broke last Wednesday when a UK journalist wrote on his twitter account that Eidos British PR firm Barrington Harvey sought to prevent any review lower than 8.0/10 for Tomb Raider: Underworld (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PC, PS2) from getting published until three d...

By Jon G. This story first broke last Wednesday when a UK journalist wrote on his twitter account that Eidos British PR firm Barrington Harvey sought to prevent any review lower than 8.0/10 for Tomb Raider: Underworld (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PC, PS2) from getting published until three d...

By Jon G. This story first broke last Wednesday when a UK journalist wrote on his twitter account that Eidos British PR firm Barrington Harvey sought to prevent any review lower than 8.0/10 for Tomb Raider: Underworld (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PC, PS2) from getting published until three d...

By Mike Fahey When asked why, the spokesperson said: “Just that we’re trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high, and the brand manager in the US that’s handling all of Tomb Raider has asked that we just manage the scores before the game is out, really, just to ensure that we don’t put people off buying...