This is why we can’t have nice things.

Fucking finally.

From Eric Caoili at Gamasutra:

The PS3 version’s average review score on Metacritic, 63, is quite low for such a high-profile, triple-A release, and many critics have gone further, savaging the game for straying too far from the franchise’s roots. Polygon’s review called the release “a desperate, ugly bid to appeal to as many people as possible.”

Yet in Japan, Resident Evil 6 received a near perfect 39 out of 40 review score from Famitsu, one of the country’s most prominent video game magazines and review outlets. And in the UK, it became the fourth biggest seller of 2012, according to Chart-Track.

In my opinion, this will go down as one of the most underrated games of this generation. It’s a great distillation of the problems with the way games are reviewed here – cram the whole thing down a single reviewer’s gullet as quickly as possible, then demand they write insightful feedback. Pathetic.

John Walker over at RPS:

It seems things were getting pretty desperate, with OnLive ready to liquidate its assets, stopped at the last moment by the seemingly paltry offer from venture capitalist Gary Lauder. For just $4.8m he picked up, well, a big pile of debt, but the belief that the problem was a lack of initial investment.

Ouch.