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The embargo has lifted on reviews for DiRT Showdown, Codemasters’ attempt to turn the DiRT series into a more diverse beast with an arcade-racer inspired twist on the series. We’ve rounded all of the reviews up.

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Near universal acclaim has greeted Ignition’s biblical action games, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.

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There’s an old saying about “the best laid schemes of mice and men.”

We’re guessing it’d probably average, oh, about an 85.

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Edge is starting a series of weekly graphs highlighting gaming “market interest areas or trends”. This week, it’s Xbox 360.

From data complied with Entertainment Design and Research, this week’s pictorial representation shows 360 game that have received review scores of 85 or higher, compared to those that got 65 or lower.

As you can see, from 2005 through 2008, 13 percent (48 games) have received an average score of 85 plus, and 38 percent received a 65 or lower.

The chart disclaimer? Multiple SKUs and special editions were removed so as not to be counted twice. Guitar Hero: World Tour and its 3 SKUs were used as an example.

Next week: PS3!

Can’t wait.

US site 1UP has now switched over to a letter-based review system, a change that’s led to some fairly spectacular confusion this morning.

Ed boss Dan Hsu said there wouldn’t be a score-to-letter conversion chart published “because we want our readers to go with our new scoring system and not be constantly translating the new letters back to our old scores.” Sensible.

Joystiq decided to do one anyway and all hell’s broken loose, with 1UP VP Simon Cox getting involved. Check out the comments at the bottom of the story.

Just score out of 10, review sites. Then you don’t have to fight teh internets.