GameHub — a real game database for your forum, wired into your threads

If your members talk about games, you know the problem: the discussion is everywhere and nowhere. The same game gets mentioned across a dozen threads, and there's no single place that ties them together. Someone wants opinions on a title, ends up searching, scrolling, and giving up.
GameHub fixes that. It gives your forum a proper, member-built game database — and, more importantly, it plugs straight into the discussions you already have.

The part that actually makes it different

Drop a [ICODE][game][/ICODE] tag in any post (with autocomplete), and that game's page instantly lists every thread that mentions it. Your scattered conversations become a browsable hub on their own, with nothing extra for your members to do. That two-way link between a game and your forum is the whole point — it's the thing a spreadsheet or a generic "database" add-on simply can't give you.
👉 See it on a real forum before you buy: forum.xen-support.com — have a click around, that's the fastest way to get it.

What your members get

• Add a game in seconds — cover art, year, platforms and developer are pulled in automatically from RAWG/IGDB. They basically just type the name.
• Rate with half-star precision and leave a one-line note on why they scored it that way.
• Write real reviews — separate Pros & Cons, hours played, and a finished / still playing / dropped verdict.
• Track their backlog: Owned, Playing, Completed, Want to Play, Dropped — including whether it's a physical or digital copy.
• Build and share collections, earn achievements, land on the Hall of Fame, and get a Games tab on their profile with their stats.

Enough depth to keep them coming back

Weighted community rankings (all-time, by platform, by genre — so one lonely 5-star doesn't top the chart), a release calendar with "remind me" alerts, monthly Game of the Month voting, DLC and franchise linking, screenshot galleries, YouTube trailers, a member directory with side-by-side comparison, and a full activity feed of everything happening across the database.

For you, running it

• Wiki-style editing with proper moderation and per-action permissions — you decide who can do what.
• A full ACP: manage games, platforms, genres, achievements and reviews, and merge duplicate entries in a click.
• Four ready-to-place widgets: top games, new additions, recent reviews, top reviewers.
• Every screen is built against XenForo's own style properties, so it inherits your theme out of the box — light, dark or custom, it just fits. Fully responsive.

Good to know

• 100% native XenForo. Games are a real content type, so they get search, alerts and reports for free.
• No third-party libraries, nothing phoning home.
• The auto-import uses a free RAWG API key (optional — manual entry works fine without one).

Requirements: XenForo 2.3.0+ · PHP 8.0+
v1.0.0 — initial release. Go break it on the demo and tell me what you'd want next — feature requests welcome in the thread, I read them.