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Allgame.com Shutting Down!
Published on December 9, 2014 9:13 PM
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Allgame.com, a database of video games, easily searchable, and full of information about every game for every system, is shutting down on December 12th.

For me, this really sucks because I used this resource regularly. As soon as I found out about their closure, I saved pages of games for each genre up through games ranked 4 stars and up. This way I have a reference I can use for a long time, but I will be missing any new releases from this time forward. I'll have to find another resource for that. Any ideas out there?

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Posted on December 9, 2014 9:35 PM

I got nothing for ya, sorry.

Posted on December 10, 2014 5:57 AM

It's alright. Seems most people use things like gamefaqs and stuff, but I don't know if they have such a easy to use and comprehensive database like allgame.com.

Posted on December 9, 2014 10:18 PM

Best give Wikipedia your $3. lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_video_games 

In all seriousness, that sucks though. 

Posted on December 10, 2014 5:58 AM

I use wikipedia to give me an overview of a year in gaming. That's pretty cool, but for a complete list, you can't beat allgame.com. 

Posted on December 10, 2014 2:21 AM

Bleh, that sucks. I first discovered allgame back in 2000.I was tickled to find so many of my favorite obscure games listed.

Posted on December 10, 2014 6:04 AM

What I like is that it goes back as far as you want. With Metacritic, it only goes back to like 2001 or so. I like a database that includes every game ever made. Yea!

Posted on December 10, 2014 9:37 AM

that sucks, man.  I never used it, but I hate when internet institutions shut down like that.  

Posted on December 10, 2014 8:17 PM

It was such an awesome resource. I like to look at all the games ever made in one massive database. I dont' know if anyone else has done this.

Posted on December 10, 2014 4:41 PM

I used to pal around on All Game waaaay back in 2004-ish.  That sire inspired me to write game reviews.

Posted on December 10, 2014 8:36 PM

Yea, there are a lot of reviews there on the site. Brett Weiss, who's book I just read, wrote a bunch of them. I hope the site gets archived. I read some forum posts that suggested some people were going to try doing that on archive.org.

Posted on December 10, 2014 5:22 PM

I wish I could help but I don't know of any game resource pages. It is a shame because the site you are describing sounds like an excellent resource for the history of video games. 

Posted on December 10, 2014 8:37 PM

It was like a giant Excel spread sheet full of just about every game ever made. It was easily sortable too in many different ways. I loved it.

Posted on December 12, 2014 6:26 PM

Sorry but never heard of it. Perhaps it's time for another video game database to take it's place?

Posted on December 12, 2014 7:46 PM

I hope so. How am I going to figure out what to play next if I can't see the entire list of every game ever made before my eyes? Oh heavens!