Metacritic has opened its scoring system, which pulls scores from critics into one single average, to every game developer who have been listed on the site.
Gamasutra states that the information is pulled from Gamefaqs and that by their own admission, developers believe their listings to be incomplete and therefore not a fair reflection of their work in the industry.
Scoring on Metacritic has become increasingly important over the years, with the site's scoring system for new titles holding great weight for game publishers, with the average having potentially sway over games' future and share prices. Exactly what the long-term effect of this new inclusion remains to be seen.