www.gamasutra.com is another good site for info. lots of news and stuff about the industry.

NPD Group (www.npd.com) is the most often quoted (and some say most reliable) research company on the video games industry, but most of their research are skewed towards the US market (but since the US is the biggest market in the world, i suppose you have to look into the trends and stats in the US to get a good perspective of the industry).

Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities is a leading analyst that tracks the gaming industry closely. his observations and predictions are usually quite accurate (or at least very close to them). you might want to google his name to find out what he has said about the future of the industry.

one good but exhaustive way to get info is to trawl the big game sites like wwww.gamespot.com, www.ign.com, www.kotaku.com, www.joystiq.com, etc to look for industry related info that may be useful to you.

honestly, its not that hard to get all the info that you want/need on the global industry.

i'm actually more interested if someone did a proper report/research on the local industry instead.

ps: actually i forgot to mention that the global video games industry is really broken up to two markets really - US and Japan and both markets have totally different market dynamics. Europe and the rest of the world really just follows what ever happens in these two markets. might be a good idea if you dedicated a bit of space the difference between these two markets and how they influence the rest of the world.

This post has been edited by thurtin: May 26 2009, 01:55 PM