Recent Articles
Video Game Industry Segments: Games as a Service versus Traditional Games
October 14, 2018
The recent DFC report The Business of Video Games breaks the game industry into multiple segments. At a high level the biggest distinction is between traditional pay-to-play games and games...
NCSoft Mobile Game Success Shows Potential For EA, Nintendo and Others
October 1, 2018
Last week we discussed the success casual PC game companies had going to mobile games. Meanwhile, AAA game companies have struggled finding success with mobile games. However, when they do...
Mobile Game Market Lures PC Game Companies
September 25, 2018
The newly released DFC Intelligence report The Business of Video Games, looks at the diversity of the ever expanding video game market. On a top level, one of the biggest...
Analysis: AAA Video Games for Late 2018
July 24, 2018
Last week we looked at the strong video game lineup for the first half of 2018. Of course, most of the big sales occur in the second half, and more...
The Landscape of the $150 Billion Video Game Industry
July 16, 2018
The week before E3, DFC Intelligence previewed its new video game market segmentation on Venture Beat. The article, written by DFC analyst David Cole was entitled the $150 billion video...
Assessment of the Top Selling Video Games of the First Half of 2018
July 16, 2018
The first half of 2018 is in the record books and it is time to assess where we are at. We can say right off the bat it was a...
E3 2018 Roundup Part 2: Looking to the Future, New Consoles and the Netflix of Video Games
June 21, 2018
This our E3 2018 Roundup Part 2. In part one we looked at: The strength of AAA games in a world of free-to-play products The controversial issue of loot boxes...
E3 2018 Roundup Part One
June 21, 2018
Another E3 has come and gone and it is time to assess where the video game industry is headed. In a few weeks, DFC Intelligence will be releasing its latest...