We're rolled out a new release, here's a summary of the changes.
Game Hints are now clasified as either 'General Hints/Tips',
'Walkthroughs', and 'Cheats'. The interface for game hints has also been
improved, to help you find the information you need. See
Starlancer
for an example.
Release information; including developers, publishers and dates are
now grouped together so it's clear which companies were involved with
which version of a game. Additionally, only release information for the
first published version of a game is displayed on the games summary (next
to the cover cover-art). See
Tonk Hawk 2
for a good example of this in action.
One of the most common questions we get in email is "Where do I
find the old game 'fill in the blank'?". Now there is a link
directly to eBay's search from a game rap-sheet for older games such
as the classic
Sim City.
A new step has been added to the end of the
New Game Wizard that allows you to contribute
game items that you were prevented from adding while setting up a new game.
You no longer have to wait until the game is approved to submit more
information.
The Genre Rap-Sheet has been enhanced to give you more information
about a particular genre, and the games that are part of that genre. See
the Simulation Genre
for an example of the updated page.
Past News has been updated to allow browsing
through past news items posted on Moby by month and year instead of displaying
every single news item posted since MobyGames started back an 1-Mar-1999.
We're coming up on our 3rd anniversery.
In addition to the items listed above, there several other minor changes
and bug fixes not worth mentioning here.
The ad serving has been updated to take advantage of features in IE that will allow the MobyGames pages to load before the ads load. There should be no more hanging while the top banner ad loads.
