/releases returns weird results

The url in which I'm getting the results for upcoming Xbox 360 games in the US returns only 2 games: http://www.giantbomb.com/api/releases/?format=json&api_key=[API_KEY]&filter=region:1,release_date:2015-8-6|2018-1-1,platform:20&sort=release_date:asc, but it's known for a fact that much more games are coming out see: http://www.giantbomb.com/xbox-360/3045-20/games/ for example. Matter of fact even /releases doesn't return all games soon to be released like Lego Demensions, Transformers Devastation, FIFA 16, etc are nowhere to be seen. Does anyone here know/has the proper way to get ALL upcoming video games

Thanks a lot!

Hey there! This is due to missing data. "Releases" from a data perspective refers to these:

http://www.giantbomb.com/lego-dimensions/3030-49396/releases/

As I write this, there's no Xbox 360 Release attached to the LEGO Dimensions Game page.

@jeff: But there's a guy who's getting all upcoming games data, see http://www.chrisgregori.co.uk/playdate/, do you know how he got them?

Something like the below, but with appropriate formatting (damn you cut and paste into these forums!) works well for years like 2017 / 2016. The results seem borked for 2015 where you would think it would filter out any results with an 'expected_release_year' of none, but it does not... If they could fix this it would be super easy to then just offset through the result pages. The expected_release_date is set to None once the game is released.

There is an alternative, which is to use the releases url and sort them by release_date or I remember it was one of the fields, I can look it up if you want, but that had issues too due to bad database data where I ended up needing to hit the api 4 or 5 more times than I wanted to, to make sure there were no more expected_release_date results laying around. Another option would be to just play support sorting on 'expected_release_date'. Either that or filtering working right would be awesome!

params['format'] = 'json'

params['filter'] = 'expected_release_year:2015'

results = requests.get(self.base_url + '/games/', params=params)

json_results = results.json()

num_results = json_results['number_of_total_results']

num_results_in_page = json_results['number_of_page_results']

print('results: ' + str(num_results) + 'page_results:' + str(num_results_in_pa ge))

for json_item in json_results['results']:

if 'expected_release_year' in json_item:

print('EXPECTED_RELEASE_YEAR' + str(json_item['expected_release_year']