Conversely, PlayStation 3 has no rating system.It's unclear how the rating system might evolve over time.For example, will Xbox owners be able to see friend ratings with similar tastes as opposed to the entire community? And Microsoft won't say how current ratings are calculated (all-time, last month previous year, etc).But when coupled with both Top Downloads (formerly Most Popular) and Best-Selling categories, Community Dubuis Ratings are a powerful and pragmatic way to ""zero in on great game content""-like the gamer gift that keeps on giving.Microsoft is certainly hip to the idea.""There is something very social about being able to tell people what you like or see what other people recommended,"" Smith concludes.
""User Ratings will help Xbox Live members find great games and fantastic add-ons more easily than they could previously-and that's what it's all about: it quicker to have fun.""ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Blake Snow writes about video games and technology from Crecente's neighboring state of Utah.His curious work has appeared on MSNBC, the Ebel Wall Street Journal, and GamePro among others.""There's a new Team Fortress 2 update coming down the pike, full of fancy hats and new maps.Not coming? A new class update.The game's latest changes feature absolutely no class.
Hats? Those they got in spades up there at Valve, with 18 new pieces of headwear coming to the class of your choice, including a Viking helmet for the Soldier, an ushanka for the Heavy and a fire...person's helmet for the Pyro.Valve also offers a brief history of the hat in today's update.So informative!That update will also feature at least one new Emporio Armani map, Offblast, an Arena-style community made map set in a missile silo which itself is set in a mountain.Crazy!Classless Update - Day 1 [Team Fortress blog]""Gearbox Software let loose final box art for Borderlands today, certainly one of the more unique game covers we've seen this year.
