There have been some very impolite bots visiting us lately, which has sometimes made the site slow or even inaccessible. This week, we implemented several changes to help keep the site running smoothly during these incidents. Additionally:

• Now Person pages label NSFW games.
• A couple of updates to improve the layout of the site on mobile. More to come!
• Performance enhancements to a wide variety of pages.

The big news this week, as you can imagine, is the release of the new API service. It was years in the making--we launched the first version of the API way back in 2016, and it was a hit with students and researchers, gamers and collectors, and more. It's been gratifying to see that people continue to find it useful!

I also should have noted this last week, but we have recently added our 70,000th Windows game: Jungo! It was added by qwertyuiop, who has been with us for more than 24 years, and contributed nearly 700 games. Great work, qwertyuiop, and thanks to everyone else that helped get us here!

We do have a few other updates to note, this week:

• You can now select February 29 for This Day in Gaming, even if it's not currently a leap year.
• Approvers: Editing Game Relations for games with lots of relations should be (much) faster.
• Bugfix: Closing accounts works again.

The MobyGames subscription service is officially exiting early access and we are launching a new suite of subscriptions based on our learnings.

Paid subscribers in the early access program will be locked into their current level of fees and services for as long as they maintain their subscription.

The New MobyGames Subscription Program

MobyPlus ($4.99/mo) – This program replaces MobyPro and includes all the advanced data, searches, high-resolution downloads, and tools of the early access program, excluding API access.

Hobbyist API ($9.99/mo.) – non-commercial access to the MobyGames API at 0.2 requests a second.

MobyPlus & Hobbyist API Bundle ($12.99/mo) – this bundle includes all the benefits of MobyPlus and non-commercial API access at 0.2 requests per second.

MobyGames API Bronze ($99.99/mo.) – commercial API access at up to 1 request per second.

MobyGames API Silver ($499.99/mo.) – commercial API access at up to 4 requests per second plus customer support.

MobyGames API Gold ($4,999.99/mo.) – commercial API access at up to 8 requests per second plus customer support and credits for 1.1 million people.

Researchers and not-for-profits can apply for short and long-term free subscriptions using an online form. To review the form and apply please visit https://www.mobygames.com/subscription-request-form.

To learn more and subscribe to API access please visit https://www.mobygames.com/api/subscribe/.