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MobyGames is a commercial website that catalogs various information about video games along with the developers and companies behind them. The information is largely gathered via crowdsourcing. The site has details on hundreds of thousands of releases from DOS games to some of the weekly releases on the Nintendo eShop.
History[]
The site was founded in 1999. In 2010, the site was purchased by GameFly. Since the purchase was announced after the deal's completion, many of the site's major contributors left, citing that they would be doing volunteer work from a business, In 2013, the site was bought by Jeremiah Freyholtz, owner of VGBoxArt, who reverted the site to its earlier look. In 2021, Atari SA announced a deal with MobyGames to purchase the site in March 2022 but, will keep the current management of the site.