22 Aug, 2011

Did you know that the mobile entertainment industry was worth $33 million in 2010? Or that 53% of these mobile gamers were female? How about the fact that over half of the top grossing games at the App Store right now are completely free – but 50% of the revenue generated by such games comes from in-game purchases? For other lovers of game-geek stats (for...

8 Aug, 2011

Now here’s some interesting news. According to The National Gamers Survey, more than half of the adult population in the U.K., France and Germany are gamers. Over 153 million men and women were estimated to play consoles, casual game sites, social networks and mobile devices. The survey found the highest concentration of adult gamers was in the United...

28 Feb, 2011

A new survey by Information Solutions Group for PopGap Games has found a significant increase in appetite for video games on phones. In particular the survey found large increases in overall usage and frequency of mobile game playing among adults. The mobile phone is now the primary gaming device of choice, leapfrogging video game consoles and personal computers...

17 Feb, 2011

Our congratulations goes out to the folks over at gaming-news giant Eurogamer, today! Last November it is reported that a whopping 5.2 million unique users visited Eurogamers sites. ABCE reports a more specific figure of 5,216,449 unique browsers visited Eurogamer in the period, an increase of 15% from the same period a year earlier. This represents a daily...

16 Feb, 2011

When it comes to gaming expos, the UK is the poor relation to the US. Despite the growing size and impact of the Eurogamer and MCM Expos, the closest we get to the sheer size and scale of the American equivalents involves jumping on a plane and hitting Gamescom each summer. Well, maybe not for much longer. VG247 have reported a surprisingly low-key survey that...

30 Dec, 2010

This is one of those new items that’s about as surprising as a sunrise at dawn, but TorrentFreak have revealed that the most pirated game of 2010 is Call of Duty: Black Ops. With a record-breaking 5.6m copies sold in the opening twenty-four hours after release, it comes as little surprise that with 4.27m illegal downloads on PC – and another 930,000...

18 Sep, 2010

Researchers in Rochester (New York) have conducted a study looking gamers and the effect playing games has on their cognitive abilities. The researchers tested dozens of 18 to 25 year-olds who were not normally game players. They split the subjects into two groups. One group played 50 hours of the “Call of Duty 2″ and “Unreal Tournament”,...

5 Sep, 2010

M2 Research have concluded that Mario leads the way for teenage girls in the votes for their favorite gaming franchise. Their research into kids gaming habits hasn’t really turned up any surprises. the survey of 5,000 kids from across the US is repeated every 6 months to spot any trends. We will let you know how things look next Spring. 1. Social...