As you can see by reading our reviews guidelines, easily found by clicking the help link on every page, we are dedicated to reviewing retail games found on store shelves, with occasional exceptions being made when our audience has shown particular interest in a download-only game (such as America's Army, for example).
Reviews are meant to be buying guides that help you decide how to best to spend your money. Currently, there are more retail games than we can possibly review. There are thousands upon thousands of freely downloadable games; reviewing those games would be simply impossible--and would require resources we do not have.
GameSpot will remain committed to reviewing retail games. As stated in our reviews guidelines:
What types of games do you review?
GameSpot reviews most commercial entertainment software for all major gaming platforms. That is, we review almost every game typically found on game store shelves or at leading online game retailers. We overlook certain types of games, such as those designed expressly for young children, those expressly suited to special interests, and those that are adult-oriented in nature (as opposed to for mature audiences), or those that we deem otherwise unsuitable for our audience. While we typically do not review games that cannot be purchased through standard retail channels, we reserve the right to take exception for such games that we believe would be interesting to our audience.
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