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8 – GamerDNA: Trends in Online Gaming, Blurring Lines Between Casual and Hardcore

For December 8, I have selected a presentation from Jon Radoff, who runs GamerDNA, a social media company working with tracking player behavior. This means they run a service or community that allows gamers to connect and compare all their gaming goodness (player statistics) in one place. This enables GamerDNA to have fascinating insights into [...]

7 – Video Gaming Trends and Statistics

Today, on a quick note, we have an old presentation from Jerome Sudan, who runs Advertising Pawn. It presents a lot of very interesting statistics and trends of the recent development of video gaming alongside a set of well-crafted slides. Please enjoy his presentation:

Digital Game Research, User Experience and the Brain

User Experience
Recently, my research was featured in an article by Harry Brignull for the UX community, entitled “UX for videogame design: Gameplay Research”, where he describes succinctly what some of my colleagues and me are doing in game science, where our main focus is to understand players from an empirical research perspective.
Digital Game Research and [...]

Three Cool Things You Wish You Knew Before About Bibliometrics

Biblio… WTF?
Yeah, you think, here is the science guy with his words again, but actually bibliometrics is a a good set of methods to understand and study research in your field of interest. Usually, all it requires is a publication search engine, like Scirus, ISI Web of Science (you need an institutional login), Google Scholar, [...]

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 [...]

Fun with Steam Statistics

Our favorite gaming platform Steam has not only become one of my favorite tools for purchasing games, but it also seems to sport some interesting features for statistics related to Valve’s games.
Now, being the nice guys they are, they make some of those available to the public. I find especially the statistics they report about [...]