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NCBD! This week brings us 516 new releases and 223 actual new unique issues. Our eyes are on X-Force #50 and Monstress with both titles having their milestone issue this week. X-Men ’97 #1 to coincide with the show which is now on streaming. Don’t forget to pick up Sam and Twitch: Case Files #1, that’s looking like a good read.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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CLZ Games 9 Feature Hilite: Update from Core now lets you replace images
It’s Friday, so this is my fifth and final “CLZ Games 9 Feature Hilite” email.
All five v9 Feature Hilites are now available on our CLZ Blog here, including lots of screenshots:
- Hilite #1: Improved adding games by title
- Hilite #2: The new collections tab-bar
- Hilite #3: The new Check Value screen
- Hilite #4: Dealing with “unrecognized barcodes”
- Hilite #5: Update from Core now lets you replace images
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This is “CLZ Games 9 Feature Hilite” number FOUR, all about dealing with barcodes that are not found in CLZ Core.
But first, if you missed an earlier feature hilite, you can still read them on our CLZ Blog here:
- Hilite #1: Improved adding games by title
- Hilite #2: The new collections tab-bar
- Hilite #3: The new Check Value screen
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Another weekly NCBD, this week brings us 547 new releases and 254 actual new unique issues. It has us excited for Star Wars: Visions – Takashi Okazaki #1 which gives Takashi Okazaki’s spin on the Star Wars Universe and is a continuation from the Star Wars Visions series. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #4 looks promising and don’t forget to pick up DC’s Ape-pril which also looks very a-peel-ing.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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It’s me again, CLZ Alwin, with this week’s third “clz games feature hilite” email. If you missed the first two, you can still read them here:
- Hilite #1: Improved adding games by title
- Hilite #2: The new collections tab-bar
Today’s feature hilite is about the brand-new “Check Value screen!
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Here’s my second “v9 feature hilite” email, about the next big feature of last week’s CLZ Games v9 release.
(tip: if you missed yesterday’s feature hilite #1, you can read it here).
Today, we are going to discuss the new collections tab-bar.
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Last week’s CLZ Games 9.0 update was HUGE one, with 5 big new improvements. To make sure you did not miss any of the new stuff, I am going to do five “v9 feature hilite” emails this week, each one highlighting one of the big improvements.
Today’s “v9 feature hilite” is about all the improvement to the Add Games screen, in particular the Add by Title part.
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It’s that time again, our weekly New Comic Book Day activities. Today brings 221 actual new unique issues, but when we count all variants we arrive at 503 new releases. TMNT almost comes to an end, a new Avengers Twilight releases and Wolverine’s Sabretooth War finishes up.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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v9.0: Improved Add by Title screen, Collection tabs, Check Value screen and more!
Version 9 is here, a huge update for your CLZ Games app. In fact, it may even be the biggest update we ever did for CLZ Games, with many new features and several big improvements.
On top of that, our content team has been working for months to check and correct game cover images, to make sure the cover image exactly matches the barcode (regular editions vs collector’s editions, US vs EU vs JP vs AU covers, etc…).
- Improved Adding Games by Title: big cover images for the various game editions (regional, collector’s editions, etc..), filter releases by Region (US, EU, JP, AU, etc.. )
- New collections tab-bar: switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
- New Check Value screen: quickly look up the value of a game, by scanning its barcode or searching by title (requires subscription!)
- Improved Update from Core: now lets you replace cover images with better ones from Core
- Better screens for dealing with “unrecognized barcodes”
- More platforms icons: more platforms now come with their own icons
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There we go again, with our weekly New Comic Book Day festivities 🙂 Today brings 200 actual new unique issues, but when we count all variants we arrive at 480 new releases. There is one new issue TMNT issue with a crazy number of variants: 55 !!!
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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CLZ Alwin here, on this leap day, with the Feb 2024 edition of the CLZ Newsletter.
Of course, the big event this month was the v9.0 release of our CLZ Movies mobile app, which is now live for both iOS and Android. A huge update, with several new features and many big improvements. A similar update is coming up for CLZ Games, check the sneak preview below.
Our web developers are busy preparing a big update for the Connect web-based software, in which we add many improvements to the pick lists screen, for both selecting and managing pick lists.
As for updates this month, Connect is now available in Swedish!
On the Core side, we are making great progress on our Wrong Covers project, resulting in a “Check Covers Cloud Coverage” of 81% now! More info below.
Today’s topics:
- App and software updates:
- CLZ Movies 9.0 is live, for iOS and Android
- Connect: now available in Swedish. Looking for translators!
- Sneak Preview: CLZ Games 9.0
- CLZ Core updates:
- Core for Games: “Wrong Covers” project, 81% cloud coverage!
- Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary
- Sign up for the Club CLZ forum, over 3,300 members now!
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An enormous update for the CLZ Games app is coming up within a few weeks, with the following new features and improvements:
- Improved Adding Games by Title: big cover images for the various game editions (regional, collector’s editions, etc..), filter releases by Region (US, EU, JP, AU, etc.. )
- New collections tab-bar: switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
- New Check Value screen: quickly look up the value of a game, by scanning its barcode or searching by title (requires subscription!)
- Better screens for reporting “unrecognized barcodes”
- More platforms icons: more platforms now come with their own icons
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After a hectic morning, the CLZ content team just finished adding all of today’s new comic releases to our Core online comic database.
In total, today brings 502 new releases for 226 actual unique issues. You can find all of them in your Add Comics screen now. Or better yet, browse them all using the Add screen’s Pull List tab!
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Fixed:
- Sync with CLZ Cloud/Update from Core: Sometimes didn’t download all covers
- Edit Screen: The order of Month/Day would sometimes be wrong (i.e. if your phone was set to German)
- Add Movies: Add button could not be switched back to “In Collection” (if set to a different one)
Today is New Comic Book Day, so here is our weekly overview of new issues and new series. 
Thanks to our translator Peter Stickler, the Connect web-based software is now available in Swedish!
If you are interested in translating Connect to your language, let us know!
The main translations we are looking for at the moment are:
- Norwegian
- Italian
CLZ Movies 9 Feature Hilite: new format icons / tap actor name to find all his movies
This is the fourth and final CLZ Movies 9 Feature Hilite email. In this one, I will go over 2 of the smaller improvements of version 9: the added format icon for digital and streaming format and the new ability to tap on actor name in the movie details to instantly see all movies that actor appeared in.
BTW: if you missed the earlier three v9 feature hilite emails, you can still read them on the CLZ Club forum here:
- Improved Adding Movies by Title
- The new Collections Tab Bar
- Better screens for reporting “unrecognized barcodes”
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CLZ Movies 9 Feature Hilite: better screens for reporting “unrecognized barcodes”
Here it is, the 3rd “CLZ Movies v9 feature hilite” email. Today’s email is about the improvement to the screens for dealing with “unrecognized barcodes”.
BTW: if you missed first two v9 feature hilite emails, you can still read them on the CLZ Club forum here:
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Today is New Comic Book Day, so here is our weekly overview of new issues and new series. 
Here’s my second “v9 feature hilite” email, about the next big feature of last week’s CLZ Movies v9 release.
(tip: if you missed feature hilite #1, you can read it here)
Today, we are going to discuss the new collections tab-bar.
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Fixed:
- Tapping an actor could crash the app
Fixed:
- Tapping an actor to view all his/her movies could result in showing movies from someone else
- iPad: Tapping a result from the search box top right didn’t select the right movie
- Add screen:
- For TV Series and Box Sets, the “Add Sheet” wouldn’t always pull up high enough to show all data
- Add button wouldn’t always immediately work
- Cover from previous result would sometimes show in “Add Sheet”
CLZ Movies 9 Feature Hilite: Improved Adding Movies by Title
Last week, we released version 9.0 of the CLZ Movies mobile app, our biggest update ever! So big in fact, that you may not have checked out all the new features yet.
To help you get started with all the new stuff, I am going to do four “v9 feature hilite” emails, each one highlighting one of the four big features of this update.
This is Feature Hilite #1 and today, we’re gonna take a look at all the improvements to the Add Movies by Title feature.
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Fixed:
- The app would crash on startup for some users
Today is New Comic Book Day, so here is our weekly overview of new issues and new series. Including one new series that starts off with 69 variants (!!!) for issue one!
In total, today brings 422 new releases for only 163 actual unique issues. You can find all of them in your Add Comics screen now. Or better yet, browse them all using the Add screen’s Pull List tab!
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