A quick history
Below is a summary of a few milestones in the history of the site.
This doesn't include the frequent updates to the games database,
reviews, and ranks.
2021
- 6th Jan - Games company dashboard
2020
- 23rd Dec - New member tools
- 11th Dec - Member review scores included in site rankings
- 7th Sep - Redesigned game pages
- 30th May - Stats milestone: 2000 ranked games
- 27th Apr - New reviewers dashboard
- 25th Apr - Added graphs and charts to Reviews landing page
- 14th Apr - Rewrite of Wikipedia import scripts
- 11th Apr - New-look News page
- 4th Apr - Rewrite of UK eShop import scripts
- 20th Jan - New-look Games on sale page, and improved navigation
- 16th Jan - Stats milestone: 3000 games!
2019
- 1st Dec - Relaunched as Switch Scores!
Updates before 1st Dec 2019 are from when the site was known as World of Switch (WOS).
- 11th Oct - Revamp of Reviews page; adding score badges
- 10th Oct - Revamp of homepage, Games pages
- 5th Aug - 10,000 review scores!
- 23rd July - Added Twitter login
- 22nd June - Major reorganisation of Games section (new "Browse by" pages)
- 9th May - Stats milestone: 2000 games
- 24th Apr - Top Rated is now a Top 100
- 18th Mar - Released Games is now an A-Z
- 3rd Feb / 11th Feb - Improved Calendar layout
- 6th Jan - Added developer and publisher pages
2018
- 24th Dec - Added Games collection
- 29th Nov - Added Tags
- 8th Oct - Added support for self-serve partner reviews
- 7th Oct - Added support for user reviews
- 8th Sep - Stats milestone: 1000 games
- 7th Aug - Added packshots
- 31st May - Stats milestone: 700 games and 4000 review scores
- 27th May - 1st anniversary of the stats microsite becoming the main site!
- 17th Mar - Stats milestone: 500 games and 3000 review scores
- 4th Feb - Added member registration
2017
- 27th Dec - Completed work on the review importer
- 21st Oct - Improvements to navigation, charts, News, sortable tables
- 15th Oct - Ranking added to games. Simple News section added mostly for site news
- 25th Aug - Refocusing on charts, stats and reviews. Closed the wordpress.com blog
- 10th Aug - New homepage
- 16th Jul - New-look website
- 25th Jun - Added average review score, total review count, and Top Rated page
- 22nd Jun - Added first review links
- 27th May - Moved stats microsite to be the main site; moved blog to wordpress.com
- 21st May - Launched separate stats microsite
- 3rd Apr - Launched worldofswitch.com - initially as a WordPress blog
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