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App Radar wants to use AI to make advertising easier News Mar 14th, 2023

App Radar wants to use AI to make advertising easier

The startup wants their AI tool to make analysing reviews and understanding player sentiment easier

Google Play implements review bombing prevention News Sep 13th, 2022

Google Play implements review bombing prevention

Reviews will be delayed for 24 hours to give developers time to react

Metacritic places 36 hour waiting period on user reviews News Jul 20th, 2020

Metacritic places 36 hour waiting period on user reviews

"To ensure our gamers have time to play these games before writing their reviews"

as Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee struck by review-bombing for deviating from main-series formula News Nov 21st, 2018

Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee struck by review-bombing for deviating from main-series formula

Amazon Japan appears to have purged its review section in response

Greenheart Games loses 2,000 positive reviews for Game Dev Tycoon on Google Play under mysterious circumstances News Feb 13th, 2018

Greenheart Games loses 2,000 positive reviews for Game Dev Tycoon on Google Play under mysterious circumstances

Developer blames Google's algorithm, but Google claims it removed the reviews on purpose

Mobile developers can now respond to App Store user reviews in iOS 10.3 News Mar 29th, 2017

Mobile developers can now respond to App Store user reviews in iOS 10.3

Smoother, faster, better

Super Mario Run gets over 160,000 5-star reviews on Google Play in 24 hours News Mar 24th, 2017

Super Mario Run gets over 160,000 5-star reviews on Google Play in 24 hours

Fans rush to defend the big N

Apple to allow users to rate and review games without leaving the app in iOS 10.3 News Jan 25th, 2017

Apple to allow users to rate and review games without leaving the app in iOS 10.3

Also adding developer replies and hard limits to rating notifications

User review aggregation platform Player XP adopts freemium model News Jul 25th, 2016

User review aggregation platform Player XP adopts freemium model

Opens customer satisfaction rankings

How does monetisation affect a game's reputation? News Jun 2nd, 2016

How does monetisation affect a game's reputation?

PlayerXP investigates

Google outlines the future of Google Play, including better betas and Early Access News May 19th, 2016

Google outlines the future of Google Play, including better betas and Early Access

A plethora of useful changes

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