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? » 5/28/09 5:00am 5/28/09 5:00am

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? » 3/18/09 1:30am 3/18/09 1:30am

The video game industry racked up impressive sales in 2008, pulling in more than $21 billion in sales in the United States alone. That make for a similarly impressive marketing tab. » 2/10/09 7:40pm 2/10/09 7:40pm

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. » 12/08/08 6:20pm 12/08/08 6:20pm

Uh, oops. Over the weekend, Forbes ran an article citing data obtained from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research » 11/24/08 10:20pm 11/24/08 10:20pm (EEDAR). Forbes' article said that, according to EEDAR, only 4% of games ever make a profit. Wha? 4%? Sounded silly. Seems it silly. Forbes mis-quoted EEDAR's data, which actually says that only 4%…

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 » 11/21/08 4:30pm 11/21/08 4:30pm, is not very much. EEDAR offer a service to games…