Most Researched Games
past week
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Most Researched Professionals
past week
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#1 | Cort Stratton |
#2 | Davide Soliani |
#3 | Alisa Polishchuk |
#4 | Juho Lee |
#5 | William Marshall Rogers III |
#6 | GB Burford |
#7 | Shuuichi Kawata |
#8 | Robert Asher |
#9 | David Horachek |
#10 | Cliff Bleszinski |
Most Researched Companies
past week
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#1 | Capcom Co., Ltd. |
#2 | SoerGame |
#3 | Electronic Arts, Inc. |
#4 | Sweet Baby Inc. |
#5 | Incognito Entertainment, Inc. |
Most Researched Groups
past week
#1 | Sound engine: FMOD |
#2 | Setting: 1890s |
#3 | Gameplay feature: House ownership |
#4 | Famicom Detective Club / Famicom Tantei Club series |
#5 | Jazz Jackrabbit series |
Database Statistics
Platforms | 329 |
Games | 282,430 |
Add-ons | 82,141 |
People | 1,203,377 |
Companies | 53,028 |
Critics | 2,800 |
Groups | 13,494 |
Genres | 226 |
Attributes | 3,417 |
Screenshots | 1,037,950 |
Cover Art | 819,362 |
Promo Art | 1,029,579 |
Videos | 31,530 |
Player Reviews | 16,229 |
Critic Reviews | 555,079 |
Product Codes | 213,754 |
Prices | 231,138 |
Identifiers | 106,529 |
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This Day in Gaming
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1991 33 years ago
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge: Game Boy version released (Japan) -
1996 28 years ago
Tecmo's Deception: PlayStation version released (Japan) -
2000 24 years ago
The King of Fighters 2000: Arcade version released (Japan) -
2000 24 years ago
Electronic Arts, Inc.:The company signs Daytona Speedway for a 4-year deal.
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2002 22 years ago
Antz Extreme Racing: PlayStation 2 version released (United Kingdom) -
2005 19 years ago
Indiagames Ltd.:The company announces the expansion of its European operations and the appointment of Steve Gordon (ex-Vodafone UK) as Director of Sales and Marketing in Europe.
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2010 14 years ago
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty: Windows version released (Russia) -
2013 11 years ago
Pikmin 3: Wii U version released (Germany) - [ more ] [ feed ]
News
Moby v2024.06.07
By MobyReed (386) on June 07, 2024 ยท 7 comments
MobyPro
- New feature: Game cover explorer (front & back covers)
- New feature: Promo image explorer (including magazines ads, concept art, renders, etc)
- New version of the Game Browser with options to include more information in the results - including genres, developers and publishers
- Increased game browser CSV export from 1,000 to 2,500 results
- Added option to have up to 100 results per page on the game browser
- Added contribution stats feature to the homepage
- Fixed CSV exports that were broken for a few platforms
General Updates
- New game identifier tool that allows entering multiple identifiers and pulls store information
- Moved patch information from Releases to its own section (example) and increased allowed description length
- Added "preview" function to game description in the Add Game form
- Allow 'person' and 'personid' in all MobyTags (developer/developerid still work, but are deprecated)
- Credits form now remembers what screenshot you were last viewing (if applicable)
- Pending game relations now appear at the top of game pages, when relevant
- Frontend optimizations
- Database optimizations
- Misc. bug fixes, UI fixes and polish
Moby v2024.04.05
By MobyReed (386) on April 05, 2024 ยท 2 comments
MobyPro
- Added release date, genres, developer and publisher fields to csv/json game browser export
- Added chart to platform pages showing # of releases per year (example)
- Added chart to Moby stats
- Added "save as image" functionality to charts
General Updates
- If you have pending submissions, you'll now see those on relevant game/person/company overview pages
- Added support for Epic Games store (pricing, and missing games index)
- Added support for PlayStation store prices
- Added pending submissions to game description contribution tool
- Properly handle itch.io prices in Euros
- Scrapers now add note with URL to new platforms
- Better error messages for invalid dates (including leap year)
- Game Identifier contribution tool now displays pending and approved submissions separately
- Updated dark mode for charts
- Fixed importing Steam collections
- Fixed game cache when there are updates to related sites
- Fixed Steam SKU updates
- Fixed game credit listings so comma separators can be copied
- Misc. tweaks, polish, minor fixes
Update: Back in action. All of these updates are now available.
Happy 25th Anniversary!
By MobyReed (386) on March 01, 2024 ยท 8 comments
Can you believe it? MobyGames has now been documenting and preserving video game history for a quarter century! Since March 1st, 1999.
(the interactive version of this graph, along with the numbers month-by-month for our entire history, available here for MobyPro)
Happy Anniversary and thanks to all of our amazing contributors, veteran and new alike.
To help celebrate this occasion, we made some t-shirts and a mug featuring our 25th Anniversary badge (with thanks to John Kauderer at Atari!).
You can order yours on the Atari store. Use coupon code MobyGames for 10% off.
Since the release of the new site a year ago, we've deployed hundreds of updates, including all new features, more information, improved tools and UI/UX, bug fixes, optimizations and more. You can journey through the changelogs here, but here are some highlights:
- MobyPro (Early Access)
- Game Relations
- Indexes for Platforms, People and Critics
- Missing Games
- Most Researched Games, People, Companies and Groups
- Additional scrapers for the Add Game form
- Prices, including MSRP
- New collections features
- Bulk credits import and auto-classification
If you'd like to help support our ongoing development and mission to document game history, please consider contributing or subscribing to MobyPro for additional features and information.
Here's to the next 25 years!
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