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Video Games Until April 2017

Source Notebook

Dataset from the Internet Games Database API as of April 2017

(27 columns, 26623 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

View the data:

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ResourceData["Video Games Until April 2017"]
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Find the developer of Grand Theft Auto V:

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SelectFirst[ ResourceData[ "Video Games Until April 2017"], #Name == "Grand Theft Auto V" &]["Developers", 1]
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Find the first release date of Super Mario Bros.:

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SelectFirst[ ResourceData[ "Video Games Until April 2017"], #Name == "Super Mario Bros." &]["FirstReleaseDate"]
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Visualization

Plot number of releases per year from some major publishers:

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Table[Legended[ Normal@GroupBy[ Select[ResourceData["Video Games Until April 2017"], MemberQ[#Publishers, p] && ! MissingQ@#@"FirstReleaseDate" &], Normal@DateObject[#@"FirstReleaseDate", "Year"] &, Length], p], {p, {"Electronic Arts", "Activision", "Ubisoft Entertainment"}}] // DateListPlot
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Find the most common genres from 4th-gen and 8th-gen consoles:

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Table[Select[ResourceData["Video Games Until April 2017"], MemberQ[#@"PlatformCategories", p] &][All, "Genres"] // DeleteMissing // Flatten // Counts // TakeLargest@5, {p, {"4th-gen console", "8th-gen console"}}]
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Show covers from Super Mario games scaled by rating:

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Select[ResourceData[ "Video Games Until April 2017"], #Collection == "Super Mario" && NumberQ@#Rating &] // Map[#Rating^10 -> Import[#["Cover", "URL"]] &] // Normal // ImageCollage[#, Background -> White, ImageSize -> 600, ImagePadding -> 10] &
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Michael Hale, "Video Games Until April 2017" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)  

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Source: http://www.igdb.com/

Data Downloads

Publisher Information

  • Prepared for the Wolfram Data Repository By: Michael Hale
  • Publisher of Record: Michael Hale