As you may have heard, Pokémon GO is kind of popular. According to TechCrunch, the game now has more active online users than Twitter, and a higher user engagement rate than Facebook. Oh, and 5.6% of all U.S. Android users are using the app regularly—put into context,...
Diving into The Division: Breaking down Pre-release hype
Today saw the release of the latest Tom Clancy game for PS4, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows—The Division. And while the game’s release has already caused a multitude of problems for creator UbiSoft, we’ve put our media monitoring and analysis software to work measuring...
A Trip Back in Time: Reviewing the Twitter Reviews for Far Cry: Primal
The game Today saw the release of the next chapter in the Far Cry video game series. This time, the crew at Ubisoft Montreal teleport gamers 12,000 years into the past to Mesolithic Central Europe (i.e. the Stone Age). The newest feature of this game, besides the...
Reviewing Twitter reviews of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? Now that the Dec.16 embargo on reviews for the next chapter in the Star Wars film saga has expired, all media avenues are now flooded with review content. But in what may have been the most secretive marketing campaign in...
Star Wars: Battlefront Twitter reviews: The Force is beautiful, yet mediocre
Star Wars: Battlefront was released on November 17 across all major video game platforms to much fanfare — fair share of criticism, as well. Initial reviews from both popular gaming critics and users alike were almost abysmal for a game that was so intensely hyped...
Q4 video game update: First-person shooters battle on Twitter
It has been an exciting and action-packed couple of months for video game fans after a long, dry summer, with several high-profile releases in November and December including Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Fallout 4. This is the time of year many game publishers...
#Halo5Guardians: Some criticism, but mostly positive Twitter reviews of HALO 5
Fourteen years ago, HALO: Combat Evolved was released for the original Xbox system, establishing itself as one of the most successful franchises of Microsoft’s gaming platform. Other iterations of the game soon followed. With the release of the Xbox One system in late...