This week, we've got a few bugfixes and a tweak to the release info editor:

• When adding a new Canceled release, the help text for the end date now explains that it should be used for the date the cancellation was announced.
• Fix: company game list pages will now work properly with undated games.
• Fix: the Nintendo Japan scraper will now add the correct release dates.
• Fix: games with mixed platform approval and release statuses will now work correctly.

Something new is coming to MobyGames (emphasis on new)

MobyGames will now include announced but unreleased games. Contributors will be able to submit information for pending releases and even cancelled games.

Why the change

Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive video game database for fans, researchers and industry professionals. And comprehensive means everything, including games that are going to be released soon and games that got under development but never made it to the finish line.

Why not wait until release?

A few reasons. The pre-release window is full of great promotional and preview material, much of which doesn’t make it into the MobyGames collection now. Including this content will make our view of each game much more complete. Fans are also on the hunt for information about new games, so the additional records will increase traffic to our site, and potentially bring us new contributors. Finally, industry pros use MobyGames as a definitive, validated biography of their work, much like IMDb functions for the entertainment industry. That bio should include ALL the work we can verify, including upcoming and cancelled projects.

Does this mean there will be new rules for contributions?

Rules regarding submissions won’t change much at all. What we require and how we validate submissions won’t really change since we are simply expanding the nature of the games we are accepting.

As always, the full details are in our Standards.

Regular updates this week:

• Upcoming games can now be added from Steam, Nintendo​.com, and Xbox​.com
• You can now filter out NSFW games from our API: just pass allow_adult=false to /v2/games and they will be excluded.
• Fix: When adding groups to a game, groups that have already been added will no longer show up in the search results.
• Fix: Trivia contribution links will now take you to revise the existing trivia when appropriate.
• Fix: Show the correct primary platform for a game that has platforms with demo, canceled, or other release states.
• Fix: Certain pages with related undated games were failing to load. This has been fixed.
• Fix (admin): Merging large companies should be even faster.

Various fixes and improvements, this week:

MobyPlus:

• Fix: Company collaborations are working again.
• Fix: Price charts no longer misleadingly show non-USD prices.

Others:

• Admin: Merging large companies is now faster.
• Fix: Game videos now properly load their thumbnails.
• Fix: OpenSearch queries now return suggestions in your browser again.
• Fix: Quick searches for games without release dates now work properly.
• Fix: New game video submissions now place themselves after existing videos.