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Month: January, 2009

Top 5 Mailing Lists Every Game Researcher Should Know

Photo by chefran­den (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License) What Are Mailing Lists Good For? Why should you care about Mailing lists? Have you ever missed a con­fer­ence dead­line or won­dered what could be inter­est­ing areas of research related to gam­ing? Heck, maybe you have just started study­ing in higher edu­ca­tion and won­dered whether all those [...]

Game Industry Sales Data

Popular Data Sources After blog­ging about the Top 50 game devel­op­ers, I got more inter­ested in the rev­enue of the game indus­try. I have been search­ing for good game indus­try sales data for a while, since the NPD group fig­ures are not easy to come by and stud­ies related to rev­enue usu­ally cost quite a bit (e.g. game developer [...]