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Metacritic Unveils Its Top 20 Games For The First Half Of 2026
And Xbox takes #1 spot!Every now and again, we like to highlight the best games of the year according to the folks over at Metacritic, and they've actually published their own list over the past few days to cover the top 20 games from the first half of 2026.We've mentioned before how Metacritic is a little weird in how it does this — the idea is they take the platform with the most reviews for each new release, and that's the score they go with. So for example, even though Resident Evil Requiem has a 93 average rating for Xbox which should technically put it in first place, it ends up finishing fifth because PS5 is the platform with the most reviews and an average score of 89.Read the full article on purexbox.com
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/me...lf-of-2026
And Xbox takes #1 spot!Every now and again, we like to highlight the best games of the year according to the folks over at Metacritic, and they've actually published their own list over the past few days to cover the top 20 games from the first half of 2026.We've mentioned before how Metacritic is a little weird in how it does this — the idea is they take the platform with the most reviews for each new release, and that's the score they go with. So for example, even though Resident Evil Requiem has a 93 average rating for Xbox which should technically put it in first place, it ends up finishing fifth because PS5 is the platform with the most reviews and an average score of 89.Read the full article on purexbox.com
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/07/me...lf-of-2026
