I’ve updated my MetaGameBot to include some things I’ve wanted for a while. New features include:

• Reconnecting if it ever gets disconnected (which has happened a lot). It’s a bit more fault tolerant now I guess. Probably will still have lots of down time, but at least it’s better!
• You can now ask the game bot for information on any of the categories on Metacritic, not just games. By default, it still just searches for games, but now, if you start your search with a category name (Movie, Book, Game, TV) followed by a colon it will search only in that category. It may not be useful for some of you, but there are many times where I’ve been in a movie store looking at a movie that looks interesting that I want to know about. Now I have access to it right at my fingertips.

That’s it. Enjoy the new Rankings bot!