Suggestion: add 'alternate name' field to game items

Tom, would it be too much work to add an 'alternate name' field to all game items, and have its field appear when searching for items, similar to how Movies section has Title (English) and Title (As released)?

Take a look at this search for term 'aka', which some of us have been using for certain games.

www.betalistal.com/search/games/?query=aka

Games like F.E.A.R. or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the new H.A.W.X. CANNOT be searched for by typing in 'fear' or 'stalker', so by adding (AKA Fear) to its title, it makes it searcheable, at the expense of making the title long and awkward.

There's also cases, such as 'SimCity', which many people would search for 'Sim City', get no results, and add a new entry thinking no one has ever added a SimCity game to the database (yes, it has happened several times already).

Another example why alternate name would be good is in cases where US and UK identical games are merged that have different release titles. Sims: Vacation is exact same game as Sims: On Holiday. Fatal Frame III is same thing as Project Zero 3. Indigo Prophecy is called Fahrenheit in Europe. And the original Ninja Gaiden on NES was sold as Shadow Warriors in PAL regions.

And then we also have cases where a name of a game may be next to impossible to find, but by adding an expanded name or keyword, it may help in searching. Example, 'Super C' couldnt be found due to crazy amount of games with 'super' in their title, but calling it Super Contra really helps for those into the Contra series of games.

There's also a need for alternate titles for games like this :

www.betalistal.com/game/heros-quest-so-you-want-pc-games

Originally released in DOS days as Hero's Quest, due to legal reasons, had to change its title for subsequent windows re-prints to Quest for Glory I.

Yeah, and the band called 'A' can't be searched for to be put into Lists. I can find them by searching their albums but not by band name which is essential for List making.

As I talked with Prelude about this, I think the aka makes the entries look really awkward and sloppy.
So until Tom changes the search algorithm (like have searches ignore special characters) I say please don't add aka just leave the entries like "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (STALKER)"

I will add the search keywords idea (discussed before)