Column by Marcus King
July 22, 2015
This week, King shares useful concepts for customer retention and employee management.
From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #88
July 21, 2015
This chart of the ICv2 "Top 10 Manga Franchises" reflects sales in all channels for Spring 2015.
According to New ICv2 Report
July 20, 2015
ICv2 has released the results of its study on the size of the hobby game market in 2014, including the finding that that the market in the U.S. and Canada totaled around $880 million at retail, as reported in the recently released Internal Correspondence #88.
From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #88
July 20, 2015
These charts of the Top 5 Collectible Games Over-all, Top 5 Mass Market Channel Collectible Games and Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games reflect sales in Spring 2015.
Sales Estimates for June Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
July 8, 2015
These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2015.
In September
July 6, 2015
The Pokemon Company will release the Tyrantrum-EX Box for its Pokemon TCG in September.
Week of July 7, 2015
July 5, 2015
Clint Eastwood’s most popular film ever leads this week’s list of home entertainment releases that also includes an offbeat zombie saga starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, a compelling indie western that lives up to both its name and the visual heritage of the genre, as well as the latest season of the compelling adventures of the conniving politician Frank Underwood, the Machiavellian center of Netflix’s House of Cards.
Column by Marcus King
July 1, 2015
This week, King talks about how he got his start, and gives a Master Class on picking.
Column by Scott Thorne
June 28, 2015
This week, Thorne shares tips on recovering stolen TCG cards.
Column by Marcus King
June 24, 2015
King looks at his top selling non-collectible games of the year, and discusses concerns about the current state of hobby game distribution from a retailers perspective.
