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.
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