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Mon, 03/15/2010 - 8:52pm
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Bill Loguidice
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Matt Barton wrote:

Looks good, though I'm not sure why that's superior to Wikipedia. It looks like it's using the same software, even. :)

Though I guess it would be nice to have a whole wiki dedicated to gaming, assuming it wouldn't end up duplicating or siphoning away resources.

The main issue is that even Mobygames doesn't have everything. I wish there was truly a one-stop shop. Nothing, sadly, is considered definitive. Wikipedia is fine, but it's not really set up to host many images in an entry, and is necessarily generic in many ways because it has to accommodate everything. I like what both Mobygames and Eli's does with multiple screenshots and packaging shots, along with multiple versions. Of course there are plenty of platform-specific databases too with that kind of info.

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