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Within the next week, I'll begin posting my first reviews here at examiner.com. 
I've given a lot of thought to the idea of scores - what system would I use, should I use scores at all? I've come to the decision that I will not be giving scores to games I review, but will rather give them one of two designations, "check it out" or "skip it."
There are a few reasons I've come to this conclusion. One is to keep my integrity in check. As someone who loves games, it's very easy to get super excited about a game and give it a higher score than it deserves out of that excitement. There's not one person who covers games who hasn't done that at some point.
The second is that there's a lot of negative things that can be said about the Metacriticization of the game industry and how a developer's body of work is ultimately reduced to the opinions of a very small group of people, some of them who find it necessary to be overly sarcastic and critical of games that don't appeal to the hardcore.
You won't find any of that here. I will be reviewing games fairly and for their intended audiences. If a game is aimed at tween girls; I'll review it for tween girls, not jaded 20-something men. The body of the review will be more important than the final designation.
My hope is to give you, my readers, all of the necessary information you need to make a purchasing decision, while being as fair as possible to the game makers and what they were trying to accomplish.
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