What’s datamining in the context of leaking content from new video games?
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Game datamining is someone digging through the files of a game to find hidden content or information.
The datamining we hear about on news sites is usually people trying to find what’s going to be added or changed in a game before the publisher or developer announces it. For example, in Pokemon Go, dataminers discovered the new Pokemon named Meltan before Niantic announced the event.
Datamining is also used to find cut or beta content in games. Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald are full of old beta content ranging from unused tiles to whole maps. One of them even containd the entire soundtrack from Fire Red and Lead Green.
Let’s use fortnite as an example as most people know what it is. So new pickaxes, skins, Emotes and other such items are added into the game by the developers before they are released to the public.
So a new skin that’s going to be released in the upcoming weeks can be added to the game much before then. We are just not able to see it. Data miners will go deep into the game files and find these skins. It’s similar to just opening up all your computer documents and just finding new documents that have been added to your computer. Basically anything new added to the game is usually in the game before it is released.
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