As It Increases Investment in 'Magic Online'
July 20, 2015
Sales on WotC's Magic: The Gathering were down for the quarter as part of a 6% decline for the games category.
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.
Sells Plants to Cartamundi
July 15, 2015
Hasbro has signed a letter of intent to sell two game manufacturing plants and is exiting the game manufacturing business.
Column by Marcus King
July 1, 2015
This week, King talks about how he got his start, and gives a Master Class on picking.
To Hobby and Amazon
June 30, 2015
Hasbro has announced that the highly anticipated Magic: The Gathering Arena of the Planeswalkers strategy board game will release on July 1 for 'select hobby game stores' and Amazon.
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.
Sales Estimates for May Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
June 15, 2015
These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during May 2015.
Column by Jon Corpora
June 14, 2015
Jon Corpora looks at the prices paid for Magic: The Gathering--Modern Masters 2015 singles.
And 'Fan Favorites'
June 7, 2015
The 2015 Origins Awards Ceremony was held Saturday night.
