JeuxVideo.com

JeuxVideo.com is a Web site treating Video game. Created in 1997 by Sebastien Pissavy, Jerome Stolfo and François Tiles, Jeuxvideo.com counts among the largest Web sites of plays of the French-speaking world. He proposes in particular current events, tests, files, tests of video games.

Presentation

Built like a tool of information bound for the players, jeuxvideo.com is updated daily (except the weekend and bank holidays) by a drafting made up of eight full-time writers working, like by regular correspondents, called freelance journalists. The writers move on the world great events, like E3 (Los Angeles, the United States), the TGS (Tokyo, Japan) or the Ranges Convention (Liepzig, Germany) in order to meet the development teams and to follow the plays throughout their life cycle, of the development until marketing.

The site is also equipped with a waiter IRC to make it possible to the members to discuss between them and with a Webcam on line the office the drafting.

Credited of more than 2 million unique visitors per month and 235 million pages seen per month, Jeuxvideo.com is particularly voted by plebiscite by the 11-17 years. Its audience is worth to him to be among the ten French sites most visited by this age bracket.

Jeuxvideo.com is directed since 1997 per Sebastien Pissavy (alias “Lightman”). But wanting to invest itself more in its role of head of undertaking (he is director of the Interactive Odyssey, the company which publishes Jeuxvideo.com, and also of Testadaz.com, a site of sale on line), in July 2005 he promulgates Jean-Marc Wallimann before (alias “Jihem”) tester with the row of Person in charge of drafting. It is thus the latter which deals with dimensions editorial site until its departure at the beginning of the month of August 2007. It is Frederic Fau (alias “Super.Panda”) who replaces it.

In May 2007, the site celebrates its ten years by inviting the Net surfers with a meet-debate with Aurillac, place where seat the drafting of the site.

Forums

Jeuxvideo.com proposes more than 13.000 Discussion forums. There exists about it for each play of the market, each console and also for other topics that the video games as the kitchen, the policy, or the cinema. Finally a forum suggestion is dedicated to Jeuxvideo.com, to collect the proposals for an improvement in addition to the forum “classifieds” which is intended for the sale. Several active forum are supervised by a voluntary Modérateur named by the Administrateur S after possible consultation of the forumeurs.

Vidéos

Jeuxvideo.com proposes to look at vidéos of plays, however the site does not make it possible any to be able uploader of others vidéos.

the vidéos editors, of the vidéos diffused by the creators and the editors of video games, often of the trailer cards;
Gaming Live, of the vidéos from approximately 5-6 minutes presenting a play in particular;
the CLIQ (Condensed Daily Information), gathering in 2 minutes the most important information of the day.

Marking system

The plays are noted according to five criteria: the Graphics S, the jouability (in the direction of gameplay ), the Lifespan (interest of the play), the Band its, and the Scenario. Each one receiving a note on twenty. The note of scenario is not used for certain plays like the plays of sport. The general note, as for it, is an appreciation of the general quality of the play, but is not an arithmetic mean of the various criteria.

Lastly, an additional note is allotted by the Net surfers.

Concretely, only the play The Legend off Zelda: The Wind Waker received the maximum note of 20/20, no note 0/20 was decreed and a score of plays received the note of 1/20.

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