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Renegade Game Studios gets two RPGs into the Spring’s best sellers

August 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This issue includes: Spring 2022 market reports and top seller lists for games and comics/graphic novels. Also features the full year 2021 market size analysis and breakdown for hobby games and comics.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: icv2, Renegade Game Studios

Best selling RPGs in Spring 2021: Cyberpunk RED RPG climbs the charts

July 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Working with CD Projekt to compliment Cyberpunk 2077 and to fit into the timeline just before it, team Pondsmith released Cyberpunk RED. It’s a tabletop prequel to the computer game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cyberpunk red, icv2, Mike Pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games, stats

The Game Manufacturers Association to vote on a dramatic restructuring

June 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

GAMA also makes 70% of its revenues from events. That’s hardly healthy in a world of lockdowns and the group needs to diversify.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: gama, icv2

ICv2’s retail chart puts Pathfinder behind D&D as best selling RPG of the winter

March 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

D&D, as you would expect, tops the ICv2 bestseller RPG chart autumn 2020 composed of data taken from retailers, distributors and manufacturers in North America.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, Evil Hat Productions, FATE, Free League Publishing, icv2, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, wizards of the coast

ICv2’s latest best-selling RPG chart is full of mysteries

August 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

ICv2 is a site about the tabletop hobby industry (board games, card games, wargames, etc) which is primarily intended for shops and press.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: icv2

Thousands of American game stores affected by Asmodee USA distribution changes

March 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Thousands of games stores in America can now order games directly from Asmodee, even if they’re not an Asmodee game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, icv2

Sci-fi RPGs outnumber fantasy 3:2 in the latest RPG sales chart

March 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One of the sci-fi triumvirate is the Star Wars RPG, which has been in the top five for the previous 9 years.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien, alien rpg, Catalyst Game Labs, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, icv2, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Shadowrun, star wars, wizards of the coast

License dispute stops The Cimmerian: Queen of Black Coast orders

September 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The US giant Diamond Comic Distributors no longer makes mention of Ablaze’s uncensored Coman series The Cimmerian: Queen of Black Coast.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: conan, Diamond Comic Distributors, icv2, legal

Two of the three best-selling RPGs in the last quarter were sci-fi games

July 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Other issues in the RPG landscape discussed by retailers included the dangerous cost of Kickstarters, Amazon’s ability to discount Wizards of the Coast products and the leadership of GAMA.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, icv2, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, star wars, starfinder, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast

Comic book and graphic novels sales rebound in North America

May 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A historic shift is playing out as the market grew, primarily in the book channel, in 2018.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: icv2, stats

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