NOTE: This article may invoke feelings of “No Shit Sherlock” in some of you, I’d encourage you to post those feelings as comments… maybe even a “You are a FAG!” would help… those are always appreciated and helpful to everyone reading.
This tip is a little obscure, but it’s one that has driven me crazy for a long enough time that I can’t imagine I’m the only one… and it’s just getting worse.
About 3 years ago games started getting released at a much faster rate than they ever had before. It seemed like I was already reading a cool article, seeing an awesome screenshot or a great teaser trailer every week and then promptly forgetting what the hell game it was that the information pertained to.
More times than not, on a slow Saturday I might think to myself “God, I really want an up-to-date list of all the games I am keeping an eye out for”. The problem was that I wasn’t aware of any site that gave a flat list of games, by release date including future known release dates that I could peruse and mark off as “wanted” items.
GameSpot has this useless Coming Soon tab that only shows 10 titles and they aren’t necessarily in release order, they are just in popularity order:
so the contents of the list might change ordering from day to day where one day a game I really want is on it and the next day some stupid-ass Wii game is on it (oh yes, I just burned all you Wii-lovers out there).
Anyway, I was browsing through the Amazon Video Game catalog yesterday and noticed that for each gaming system (PC, PS3, Xbox, Wii, etc.) there is a “See all games” link at the bottom of the Games section:
If you click that link, you get a list of all the games that have been announced both with known and unknown release dates. The beautiful part here is that if you sort the results by Release Date, you can now see all the games listed in descending order by known release date, keeping you in the know about all future titles that you might be interested in tracking:
When you combine that with the Wish List feature of Amazon, allowing you to create any arbitrary Wish List for anything, and then add those titles you want to it, it suddenly makes tracking new and future releases that you want easy as shit.
interesting
and no u r not a phag for writing this lol
Nothing wrong with this article. Good starting information on where to find new and future games for those who don’t know where to look.
I know it seems funky, but I use gamefly.com for this.
Shawn thanks for the heads up, I’ve never used their service before.
I know a few years ago folks complained about delays with deliveries… is that still the case or have they ramped up inventory and are better now?