A Study on Video Game Review Summarization

Abstract

Game reviews have constituted a unique means of interaction between players and companies for many years. The dynamics appearing through online publishing have significantly grown the number of comments per game, giving rise to very interesting communities. The growth has, in turn, led to a difficulty in dealing with the volume and varying quality of the comments as a source of information. This work studies whether and how game reviews can be summarized, based on the notions pre-existing in aspect-based summarization and sentiment analysis. The work provides suggested pipeline of analysis, also offering preliminary findings on whether aspects detected in a set of comments can be consistently evaluated by human users.

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“…Nieborg and Sihvonen (2009) discuss its importance in their work, referring to game reviews and first impressions as the "bread and butter" of European game journalism, as they make up the majority of publications. According to Panagiotopoulos et al (2019), game reviews abroad also bear the name of game reviews written by players in online stores, as they can be a source of important information for buyers. Here, however, we can allude to the aforementioned degree of evaluation of video games and also to the influence, which is much smaller compared to that of game journalism.…”