A new year, a new graph and animated chart! 🥳 The database visualization showing the almost exponential growth in games over the past decades and our noble effort to document them all!

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An explanation: each coloured shape in the graph represents a platform. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical axis represents the number of games released and is stacked. So the height of a shape on a given point in time indicates the number of new games released for that platform that year. The total height of the graph on a given point in time shows the total new releases that year. The graph is meant to represent game releases and thus excludes DLC, Special Edition and Compilation items. Each game is represented once for each platform it was released on. The graph uses data from January 12th. The API couldn't filter out cancelled releases, but the volume of them (30+) is imperceptible in the graph.

Feel free to point out interesting info in the graph and your contributions in the thread!

I have also updated the bar chart race I made last year with this year's data:
(click to go to animation)

Previous editions:
January 2025 - January 2024 - January 2023 - January 2022 - January 2021 - January 2020 - January 2019 - January 2018 - June 2017 - January 2017 - January 2016 - January 2015 - January 2014 - January 2013 - January 2012 - January 2011 - January 2010 - January 2009

...well, in MobyPoints.

User Sciere, our long-time approver and admin, is as of today the first to have reached one million MobyPoints in the site's history.

His consistency over the years has been an example to others, so join us in congratulating him!

The beginning of a new year is a good time to look back on what we've accomplished. Over the past year, we've added several big new features--soundtracks, upcoming and canceled games, and articles, to name a few.

As always, our community has done amazing work. We've added about 2000 games every month, ranging from the latest releases back to the 70s (did you know there was a canceled arcade game about the Watergate scandal?). We've added thousands of soundtracks (if you want to listen to music from Persona 5, we've got you covered!), tens of thousands of new screenshots, trailers, reviews, and more, plus nearly a hundred thousand new people in game credits (Black Ops 7 credits more than 8000 people--a Herculean effort!). Everyone who has been a part of MobyGames this year has my sincere admiration and gratitude. Thanks to our contributors and approvers for making all this possible.

Without further ado, for our first update of the new year, we've got a variety of improvements, new features, and bug fixes to report:

MobyPlus:

• Platform release count charts now allow comparing multiple platforms and narrowing the time period displayed.
• Research rank charts now allow comparing multiple games and narrowing the time period displayed.
• Fix: Research rank charts no longer have text cut on small screens.

Others:

• Wallpaper promo images now display their resolution in the gallery caption, so you don't have to click through to see which version you're looking at.
• When contributing a new game, the 'contribute additional content' screen will now allow you to add game relations.
• Scrapers now provide a more understandable error message when encountering network errors.
• Additional updates have been made to improve the quality of videos selected for display on game pages.
• Fix: In search results, alternate titles containing exclamation marks will no longer be cut off.
• Fix: The 'show more' buttons for articles and videos will now show up whenever needed on mobile.
• Fix: Alternate title tooltips will now be displayed on mobile when tapped.
• Fix: The iTunes scraper will now fetch screenshots for certain games that would previously have been missed.
• Approvers: When merging developers, there is now a checkbox to automatically leave behind "(credited as Old Name)" where needed.
• Approvers: Stricter security enforcement. You may have to verify your login (once per session) when performing various 'dangerous' operations.
• Approvers: Now articles can be removed from individual games, the same as videos.
• Approvers (fix): WIP credit submissions with errors should no longer prevent editing existing Approved credit submissions.
• As usual, various invisible (one hopes!) fixes and improvements.