Amazon is blocking some users from seeing reviews after mistaking them for AI bots
Affected users are limited to eight reviews per product and must appeal to restore full access
User reviews articles
Google adds search to Play Store reviews to improve app discovery
Android's app reviews just got an upgrade
Google Maps is hiding reviews, photos, and more unless you sign in
Signed-out users report a new "limited view"
Stardew Valley is now the highest-rated game on Steam
Farming sim maintains near-perfect rating from almost 1 million reviews
Why it matters: As a foundational title in the "cozy game" subgenre, Stardew Valley has remained one of the most successful indie games for much of the past decade. With Steam player counts higher than ever over the past year, Eric Barone's pixel art farming simulator now also holds the highest user rating on the platform.
Why you should be suspicious of that verified Amazon customer review
There's a good chance someone was paid to write it
Skull and Bones has the lowest Metacritic user score of 2024 so far
Not what Ubisoft was hoping to see
Facepalm: Skull and Bones, the pirate sim that Ubisoft thinks is so good it's worth a $70 console price tag and a "AAAA" designation, currently has the lowest user score on Metacritic for a game released in 2024 thus far. Even the near-universally disliked Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has a higher user score than the title that took a decade to develop.
Starfield's Steam rating falls to "mostly negative," can Bethesda still save its RPG?
Will Starfield do a Cyberpunk 2077?
Cyberpunk 2077 has climbed to an 80 percent "very positive" rating on Steam
What a breathtaking recovery
LOTR: Gollum developer apologizes after game is universally panned
It's already one of 2023's worst reviewed titles
This is how you do it now: Microsoft adds AI-generated review summaries to Store apps
Microsoft is betting big on AI
Mozilla acquires review-checking service Fakespot, Firefox integration incoming
Mozilla will use AI to spot fake reviews and e-commerce scams on Firefox
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We want your honest assessment of what you like and enjoy about the site
Users can now rate and review Apple's first-party apps in the App Store
Tell Cupertino how you really feel about its iOS built-in software
Amazon deletes 20,000 user reviews after finding evidence of suspicious activity
Top reviewer in the UK had supposedly reviewed £15,000 worth of products in August alone
Nintendo confuses fans by removing eShop reviewing system mere days after launch
Nintendo says it is 'evaluating' the system
When Amazon's Customer Reviews Get Ridiculously Funny
What these reviews lack in helpfulness they make up for in gleeful goofiness. For its part, Amazon hasn't tried to dissuade this phenomenon, as these self-generating memes can actually increase sales. For example, when an unexceptional graphic T-shirt featuring three howling wolves caught the ire of the sarcastic community in 2008, it went on to become one of the top selling pieces of apparel on Amazon that year.
