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Analyst: Only 4% Of Video Games Make Profit

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Video Game Woman

“Geoffrey Zatkin, president of research firm Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, estimates that just 4% of all released games actually return profits for publishers. Speaking to Forbes, Zatkin showed that there is truth in numbers. In fact, numbers are EEDAR’s specialty. The firm maintains a database of over 6,000 games catalogued by genre, features and sales figures.” [Link]

Disney Funds Chinese Site - 56.com - That Bootlegs Disney Work

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“For months, several high-quality, full-length bootlegs of the robot love story by Disney’s Pixar unit — released just this week on DVD in the U.S. — have been freely available to watch on the YouTube-like Chinese video site 56.com, which has had Disney as an investor since 2006. The bootlegs were put there by users of the site, and could be located even by visitors who don’t read or speak Chinese.” [Link]