Where do the most number of gamers on Facebook come from in the United States? A study conducted by AdParlor looked into data gathered from hundreds of advertising campaigns to extrapolate the numbers for the entire Facebook audience. Here are the top ten states and the number of gamers that each of these states contribute [...]

With mobile phones getting smarter by the day, the number of people who access gaming applications on their mobile phone is definitely on the rise. Consequently, we have a number of new startups focusing on this specific market segment. While a majority of such mobile gaming applications make money either via gaming credits or requiring [...]

Social gaming has been become amazingly popular over the past year and a half with the launch of games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars on Facebook. It is not exaggeration if I am going to say that the success of companies such as Zynga actually helped Facebook figure out a business model for their [...]

How many games do you have on your smartphone, if you have one? This is not entirely surprising, but a study by Compete found that iPhone users are pretty heavy gamers with close to 51% of users having more than 5 games installed on their device. On the contrary, 56% of Android users had less [...]

Spending on video games in the US is estimated to be close to $20.2 billion for 2009. This includes a variety of platforms including mobile phones which is expected to grow from the $4.7 billion in 2009 to $11.4 billion by 2014. Here is the share of the various other video gaming platforms as measured [...]

PlaySpan, a company focused on providing monetization solutions for online games, social networks and virtual worlds has released its latest report on the state of the international virtual goods economy. According to the report, virtual goods will bring close to $1.6 billion to the US economy in 2011. The highest revenues on a per-gamer basis [...]

First things first – this is not a study from an established market research firm. Independent review site, NoFussReviews conducted a survey of over 500,000 game console owners to look into the failure rate of their consoles. Here are some interesting revelations Percentage consoles that were repaired or replaced XBox 360 : 42% PS3 : [...]

Comscore has published its results on a recent study conducted to look into the mobile gaming market in the US. The study reveals that the number of mobile gamers has fallen by 13% in the past one year majorly contributed by the 35% decline among feature phones which account for 80% of the mobile gaming [...]

Internet connected gaming is slowly becoming the norm. You may recall a recent study which pointed out that close to 85% of online gamers preferred their PC and only between 30%-40% of online gamers preferred the consoles. It then comes as no surprise that connecting the gamers via broadband is becoming extremely important to enhance [...]

Facebook gaming is one of the most popular pastimes of late and close to 70 million users (of the total 400 million Facebook users) play just one game – Farmville. This explains the scope of this market. Monetization is not proving to be very difficult too with multiple avenues to sell virtual goods and services. [...]