Mobygames announces new suite of pro tools for users to maintain career profile, find jobs and see industry insights

Atari-owned industry database MobyGames has launched a new suite of tools for industry professionals, together with wealthy profiles for individuals to file and share their career progress and achievements, and entry to “personalised Job postings, insights and industry monitoring.” The service launches as we speak as a free beta, with sure options to be paywalled at last launch.

The agency mentioned the launch was motivated by the shortcomings of different skilled networks that “do not cater to the nuances of working in gaming,” and jobs boards that “do not seize the community and personalised intelligence that really drives how careers transfer on this industry.”

At launch, users can confirm their id and replace their profile on the positioning to add extra element on their totally different roles and the titles on which they’re credited. This service will stay free to use. The positioning describes it as enabling users to “present your personal context to what your work entailed,” with examples together with “which artwork property you created, the way you supported distribution, or which characters you voiced.” Users may also specify which firm they labored with for every credit score.

A new “skilled” tier provides the flexibility to “visualise their gaming community and connections,” “see sport launch and media protection updates from their skilled community,” and “entry personalised Job postings, insights and industry monitoring, together with suggestions, compensation ranges, connections working at goal corporations, and extra.”

The Skilled tier shall be free for the beta interval, which is predicted to run till August, and be $14.99 a month (or $11.99 a month with an annual subscription) after full launch, Product Supervisor Reece Denzel tells GamesIndustry.biz. The agency will “actively solicit suggestions” from users throughout the beta interval.

The positioning already supplied paid “plus” tiers providing extra information entry, which it describes as focusing on hobbyists. That service was rebranded from MobyPro in December last year.

The service resembles IMDBPro, the skilled tier of the long-established and now Amazon-owned film database, however Denzel says that whereas MobyGames checked out IMDBPro as an inspiration “we’re constructing options from the bottom up to goal the particular wants of these working in video games.”

“The data we monitor may be very games-specific, and we’re going past simply being a listing. Our updates on jobs, sport releases, and market developments present a dynamic setting that delivers extra worth for video games industry professionals than IMDbPro can,” he says.

In a press launch, the agency described MobyGames as “essentially the most full, structured file of sport growth credit in existence,” claiming that it consists of information on greater than 350,000 video games and add-ons, 1.3 million people, and 50,000 corporations.

“Ask any video games skilled what platform they use to handle their career, and you may hear the identical frustrations — present options weren’t designed for this industry,” mentioned Andreas Deptolla, President of Atari Europe. “MobyGames has documented sport credit with extra depth and accuracy than anybody else for a long time. Combining that basis with a purpose-built skilled community was merely the plain factor to do.”

Atari acquired MobyGames in 2022 for $1.5 million from retro {hardware} producer Antstream. The positioning was launched in 1999 and was bought by sport rental service GameFly in 2010, prompting an unpopular redesign which was rolled again after the positioning was purchased by design firm Blue Flame Labs in 2013, in collaboration with then-overseer of GDC Simon Carless..