New Review Aggregation Site Joins the Fray: Metacritic and OpenCritic's Newest Competitor

Review aggregation sites have been around for a while. You'll know these websites by some of the most famous from the bunch, including the Fandom-owned Metacritic and OpenCritic; a new competitor joins this line-up to try to stand out from the crowd.

Rutledge Daugette, who you may know as the CEO and Guides Editor of TechRaptor, has officially announced that CriticDB, the newest review aggregator, will join the competition. Steering from strictly review aggregation, the purpose of this newest website is to help gamers, PR, developers, and outlets reach the right audiences for their titles.

CriticDB's mission statement can be broken down into four main points:

• Collect reviews and previews from around the web
• Connect gamers to new games
• Find ways to help outlets and PR work together
• Highlight great work and games

To this end, the website will feature a slew of additions that will make it stand out from ones gamers have come to know and love. Steering from strict review aggregation and allowing just anyone to leave their review (leading to review bombing), CriticDB seeks to become a positive force in the industry.

To reach this goal, there are going to be numerous parts on the website to ensure that gamers (like you) can find the right outlets and writers (like us) for their reading and review needs. To do this, you'll find ways to browse through outlets and discover new sites to learn about videogames, including reviews and previews, but branching off into news as well.

Similar to this goal, Rutledge Daugette wants to give developers a way to be discovered by gamers who might have overseen them. Hoping to highlight new titles who might have been drowned out by the AAA noise around the industry, CriticDB's vision is to ensure that those who release a great game can find the right audience for themselves.

Finally, with this website, CriticDB will give access to important information to PR companies to find the right outlets (and even writers) to cover their titles. While this may sound unimportant to the average gamer, this is a great way to ensure that the right people are reviewing the titles — seasoned critics who may have great expertise and area-of-coverage in genres. This should give puzzle game developers a great way to find puzzle-focused writers and outlets, and giving you, the reader, a great way to connect with sites that share your vision.