In an article in the 'Business' section of Monday's New York Times Will Wade described the recovery of the Pokemon franchise.

The quarterly ICv2 market report on game sales in the ICv2 Guide to Games #46 reported gains in all games segments over-all, but particularly strong sales at mass.

This week, Bennett talks about the changes at Dark Star.

Don Ballew of Fort Gibson Hobby Shop in Fort Gibson , Oklahoma saw the retailer comments about CCG pre-releases and agrees that retailers need to speak up.

BCI has announced the September 4th release of the second and final season of the 1980s animated series She-Ra .

Comic Images announced the first expansion for its Stargate CCG.

This April will mark the 10th anniversary of the appearance of the first Pokemon anime series on Japanese television.

ICv2 found that game sales revived in 2006, after several tough years.

The seventh and final issue of Marvel's Civil War crossover event topped the February sales chart of periodical comics sold via Diamond Comic Distributors with sales of 265,935 units.

CMX announced that starting in July it would be re-publishing Masashi Tanaka's Gon and 8 new manga series.