Back up. For years, I've been using IGN's database to track the entirety of my video game collection. Actually, it's about to be a decade... I created my IGN account in 2001. And it's always been a pageview sink, because it takes a stupid amount of clicks to get stuff added. Plus over the years it has had a rocky relationship with Safari and other Mac browsers. But the upshot is that I get neat little factoids like this:

Some time ago, IGN actually tried to cut down on the click-click-click by adding a popup management box to every searchable object in their database. When signed in, you're supposed to be able to click "add to collection" and then you're done. Except that it doesn't work, and hasn't for months. When you hit that radio button, your browser just does nothing.

At first I thought it was another 2003-era "We Only Tested This For IE 5.0" kind of error, until I found other IGN accounts complaining about the same problem. So here's the bold, Web 2.0-savvy, super-user-focused, interactive method around the problem.

Do a search for the game (as usual), but don't even bother zooming in to the view that shows the review page and screens and McGriddle ads and all that. Just do something you never thought you'd ever want to do: check the highlighted "Get Email Alerts" button.

Funny how the option to hassle you forever via targeted marketing emails still works perfectly, huh?

Then you head up to the dropdown menu by your account in the top right corner and select Manage Alerts. This brings up all the awful games you're telling IGN that you want to hear about via email for the rest of your life. Like, say they upload some character artwork. Or they put together a list of cheats. BANG: you get an email.

What you want is to hit the edit function on this page:

This is the backdoor method to get into the familiar object-edit page where you can add the game to your collection. Now you can check the button to add the game to your capital-C Collection.

Don't forget to turn off the Email Alert checkbox. Unless you want generic-looking spam messages in your Yahoo Mail informing you when your chosen game gets used as a keyword in one of IGN's Year's Best articles.