The DeanBeat This week’s tale of the game juggernauts.
Gamers have many ways to keep score. This column is about how I like to look at the game companies during the busy fall season.
This past week saw the launches of blockbuster games including Call of Duty: WWII, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Super Mario Odyssey, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. We also saw earnings reports this week from Nintendo, Electronic Arts, and Activision Blizzard. That provides an occasion to compare how everyone is doing.
In the battle of the reviews, Nintendo’s Super Mario Odyssey was the clear winner among critics with a 97 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic. Call of Duty: WWII came in at 86 out of 100. Wolfenstein II scored 89, as did Destiny 2, which debuted in September. Assassin’s Creed Origins came in at 82. Middle-earth: Shadow of War, a big release in October, got an 81.