In 2016, we want to continue our little series of blog entries about new developments within the video game database landscape.
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An API seems to slowly become a standard in the video game database world, so MobyGames announced to jump the train, stating to soon offer such a feature. Furthermore, the long-awaited overhaul of the ages-old genre tags is currently happening there. The basic proposal for the new genre system came from long-time Moby contributor vedder who also allowed Oregami to further develop his draft. Before Besides this, the MG developers took the important milestone of moving the game tag tags "Compilation" and "DLC/Add-on" to the "Basic genreGenre" tag category, which is mandatory data when contributing new games. In the old days, there was the rather ridiculous need to apply all the basic genres of all included games to any compilation, and to every Add-on. This policy was changed in 2012 already, but now the technical change happened, too, so after the clean-up the game lists by genre will be much easier to look at.
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Big news are on the horizon at RetroCollect. In an announcement which came just in time for this blog post, RC's main developer lifted the curtain on his work of the last months. Behind the scenes, a new data model with over 500 database tables was implemented that shall be "solving the problems plaguing all game databases out there and addressing their and our shortcomings". We can't wait to see the first data model out in the open that is able to master Stage 3 of t his this blog post. 
On top of that technical revolution, RetroCollect announced the new features that will be built upon the new data model:
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The French project The Video games Games Museum opened up its database for users to register and contribute. Just some weeks after that, a collection tracker was added, take a look at the developers collection for a glimpse at this feature.
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