The Pokemon Company International has announced the Pokemon TCG: Sword & Shield series, featuring the new "Pokemon V" card type.

This week, Scott Thorne looks at the history of marketing and how it applies to the games business.

With the fall TV Season almost upon us, the once moribund "TV on DVD" category is hopping again this week with the latest seasons of The Walking Dead, American Gods, Arrow, Star Wars Resistance, plus the TV movie, LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters-- aided by offerings from other categories including the intriguing super-antihero saga Brightburn, and an anime series from Studio Ghibli directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro.

Market conditions were good in hobby game stores in the Spring season (January through April), with increasing sales reported by almost everyone we interviewed.

This week's home entertainment releases include the #1 film of 2018, plus the first live-action Pokemon movie, an Aretha Franklin documentary saved from the scrapheap with a computer restoration, a brilliant martial arts film from the auteur of The House of Flying Daggers, the latest seasons of the Archie Comics-inspired Riverdale and the Stephen King-based Mr. Mercedes, as well as new episodes of the white hot anime science fiction series Attack on Titan.

This week, Scott Thorne discusses the new trend of publishers timing their distribution releases with Gen Con releases.

These charts of the Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games, Top 3 Mass Market Channel Collectible Games and ​Top 5 Collectible Games Over-all reflect sales in Spring 2019.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2019.

The Pokemon Company will release the Pokemon TCG: Hidden Fates expansion, featuring the 94-card "Shiny Vault" subset.

VIZ Media also revealed new series by the creators of Goodnight Punpun and Strobe Edge, more.