either signal firing. Two are needed because neither works alone:
hype is IGDB's count of users waiting on a game, which ranks
anticipated originals but scores a beloved back-catalogue port at zero; a
Wikipedia article means an editor judged the game notable enough
to write up, which catches exactly those ports and remasters
Bold titles
hype of 35 or more — about one release a week, 22% of the notable list.
Calibrated so the mark stays scarce enough to be worth scanning for; it says what
people are waiting for, never how the game turns out
Dates
committed days only. IGDB files a vague quarter or year as its last day, so
“Q4 2026” and “2026” both read as 31 December, and
Wikipedia keeps its undated releases in a separate table. Both are filtered out
rather than guessed at: without that, December shows hundreds of phantom
releases
Sources
IGDB for hype, platforms, genres and release type · Wikipedia's year
lists for notability and article links
Links
titles link to Wikipedia where an article exists — the same article that
counts as the notability signal above