NPD Group analyst Anita Frazier spoke at a DICE Summit talk this morning and dropped a number of interesting statistics about the current state of the video games industry. According to Frazier, 58% of Americans over the age of 13 play video games. 72% of this group may be male, but women -- and here Frazier [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 10, 2009
During his keynote at this year’s CES, Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith rifled off quite a few numbers when it came to their ultra-super-popular Guitar Hero franchise. Most impressive (and most important) was that “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock” became the first single game to ever surpass $1 billion in sales, shortly after “Guitar [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
When Microsoft president of Entertainment & Devices Robbie Bach first stepped onto the stage at CES 2009, we figured we'd be treated to a sizzling first look at a hot new game. Not so: he just gave us a bunch of numbers. You can find them after the jump.
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
What with all the recent layoffs, you might expect that the US video game industry probably isn't doing so well right now. Certainly, investor confidence is eroding -- game stocks have tanked tremendously in the past several months. But a coalition of US, Japan and Europe's top software sales-tracking firms have discovered that in the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Today, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has announced GamePulse, a online service that allows industry professionals to access and analyze a wealth of data -- from individual game facts to high-level sales and trends -- all from the convenience of their web browser. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to witness the system [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 21, 2008
Any individual gamer may or may not have care how many units of Tales of Vesperia flew off store shelves in Japan last week -- but as a whole we gamers sure do love our statistics. And whether gathering ammunition for the "console wars,' reveling in the fact that that their favorite medium sold better [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 8, 2008
While plenty of gamers seem to enjoy drinking to the death of PC gaming, I won't be the first to point out that their kool-aid typically consists only of lackluster retail sales figures, with little or no thought towards digital distribution or the all-important subscription revenues of blockbusters like World of Warcraft. But starting [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Helmed by one former EverQuest designer and one former EQ fanboy, game statistics firm Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) announced today that they are adding an analyst to the mix -- Jesse Divnich, formerly of online video game prediction market The simExchange.
Continue reading...Monday, April 14, 2008
Join GameCyte for part two of our exclusive interview with the co-founders of Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR).
Continue reading...Monday, April 14, 2008
Game industry trade periodical Game Developer just published their latest 70+ page report on industry salaries, and have released some important figures as a tease for the real McCoy.
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Friday, February 20, 2009
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