The June issue of PCGamer has the reviews index,
I did a quick talley to see which companies produced
the most titles which rated above an 85%...and which
were producing an inordinate number if stinkers.
I am sad to say my old favorite, Sir-Tech is really
suffering lately, no less than three titles which rated
lower than 35%, hope they do better.
Anway, if I counted correctly...
Electronic Arts/EA Sports--7
Activision-4
Lucas Arts, Microsoft, Interactive Magic-3
Ubi-Soft, SSI, Eidos, GTInteractive-2
And with one title at or above 85%:
Avalon Hill, Westwood Studios, Mindscape, Oceans
of America, Interplay, Graphic Simulations, Accolade,
Blue Byte, Virgin, Jane's, Bungie, 3do, Origin, Microprose,
and Sierra.
I could have miscounted here and there, so hope I
did not put anybody's fave gaming company in the
wrong catagory...
Activision narrowly missed having some more titles
up above 85%:
Netstorm 83%
Nightmare Creatures 82%
Heavy Gear 82%
Blood Omen LofK 82%
I should note that Dark Reign, ZGI, and QII all
rated editors' choice awards, ERTS got 5 awards.
All in all, if this is a useful way to rate these companies,
(maybe it is not?..) I would say ATVI looks like a screamin
buy...of course you have to decide whether or not you
like the industry too.
I'm having a bit too much fun trading biotech stocks for
now, but atvi is definately on my buy-the-dips list, along
with Netscape and a couple others. |
