Game Reviews

Expressing Sentiments in Game Reviews

Opinion mining and sentiment analysis are important research areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and have become viable alternatives for automatically extracting the affective information found in texts. Our aim is to build an NLP model to analyze gamers’ sentiments and opinions expressed in a corpus of 9750 game reviews. A Principal Component Analysis using sentiment analysis feat...

REVIEWS

Aspect-oriented Sentiment Analysis on Video Game Reviews in Chinese

What makes a good game?: using reviews to inform design

The characteristics that identify a good game are hard to define and reproduce, as demonstrated by the catalogues of both successes and failures from most games companies. We have started to address this by undertaking a grounded theoretical analysis of reviews garnered from games, both good and bad, to distil from these common features that characterize good and bad games. We have identified t...

Cultural differences in game appreciation: A study of player game reviews

Do players in different cultures have different ways of appreciating games? What aspects of games do players of a particular culture like or dislike? We describe the results of a study that examined a large body of user-submitted game reviews and scores on two prominent gaming websites: one based in the US and the other in Japan. We examined the reviews by applying statistical and computational...