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So, Just How Many Games Come Out At Christmas Time?

7:00PM May 28, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

It’s a common complaint from gamers: there are just too damn many games coming out between October and December to give time to them all. But just how many games are there at Christmas? More »


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So, How Many 360 Games Are Any Good?

3:30PM March 18, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Picture the scene: your mum walks into GameStop. She walks to the Xbox 360 section, and picks out a game for your birthday. At random. What are the odds she picks a good one?

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Report: Game Industry Spent $823M Shilling Games In ’08

9:40AM February 11, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

The video game industry racked up impressive sales in 2008, pulling in more than $21 billion in sales in the United States alone. That makes for a similarly impressive marketing tab.

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Guitar Hero Peaking Says Analyst

8:20AM December 9, 2008 | Stuart Houghton

An analyst for Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) says that new sales figures show that the Guitar Hero franchise may have reached its peak.

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Only 20% Of Games Make A Profit – EEDAR

12:20PM November 25, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

Uh, oops. Over the weekend, Forbes ran an article citing data obtained from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR). Forbes’ article said that, according to EEDAR, only 4% of games ever make a profit. Wha? 4%? Sounded silly. Seems it was silly. Forbes mis-quoted EEDAR’s data, which actually says that only 4% of all games that ever enter into production make a profit. Sounds like a case of semantics, but it’s a key difference. Just like movies, most games that enter into production never actually see the light of day. Of those that do make it onto store shelves, it turns out 20% of them return a “significant profit”. That sounds more like it. EEDAR’s full correction follows.

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Only 4% Of Games Make A Profit – EEDAR

6:30AM November 22, 2008 | Stuart Houghton

So many games, so little time. But do you ever wonder what happens to the also-rans? The non-AAA titles and the ones that don’t have the huge marketing budgets behind them? Or even those that do, but just.. don’t work? The answer, according to market analysts EEDAR, is not very much.

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