IDG's latest Global Forecast Update Report (H1'10 in Review and 2010-'14 Outlook) features expanded coverage from what was contained in IDG's May 2009 Annual Industry White Paper. Topics include:

• H1’10 In Review for North America, Europe, and Japan
• Product cycle insights for Kinect, Move, and 3DS
• Revised projections including new forecasts for 3DS, out through 2014
• Charts of our HW projections by platform and region, with rationales for our assumption set
• Updated reporting on Non-Traditional Segments, with an in-depth look at the latest trends and themes

IDG's Annual Industry White Paper on the global video game market, with all new in-depth research chapters on non-traditional segments. This year’s research report highlights IDG’s official roll-out of the non-traditional segments. As an added bonus, IDG has included hard-hitting research reports on Mobile Gaming, Casual and Social Games, MMOGs and Digital Distribution within this year’s Big Book.

This flagship publication is a comprehensive and encyclopedic resource for all members of the video game industry. Extensive coverage of its core territories are all captured in great depth. This year’s industry white paper features our initial launch coverage on emerging market territories including Russia, Poland, Greece, South Africa, Australia, the Middle East, and India. In the Spain chapter, IDG has also included a more robust and detailed Portugal section in this year’s Big Book.

This 28-page report reviews prospects for future hardware capabilities and trends in the console and handheld video game markets. IDG interviewed dozens of game developers and publishers around the globe to answer important questions about the future potential and impact of a variety of technology trends.

This 18-page report analyzes the video game software market to address critical questions for publishers: How is the current generation of software performing and what are its growth prospects? With development costs higher than ever, is the growth in the overall software market sufficient to ensure profitability levels that are similar to those of the prior cycle, especially given finite shelf space? How can game publishing be optimally managed across platforms to ensure success through the sweet spot of the cycle?

This 94-slide presentation provides an executive overview of the structure and size of the video game markets in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and other South American markets. With no reliable retail tracking services in the region to provide point-of-sale data, these informal markets are often viewed as difficult to estimate or forecast. IDG's research methodology closes this gap through extensive relationships with retailers, publishers, and distributors with oeprations in these key emerging markets.

This subscriber-only report provides a quarterly update for the PC and video game hardware and software markets in North America, Western Europe, and Japan, based on sales performance for the first half of 2007.

This subscriber-only research publication provides early access to IDG's global hardware and software forecast figures, reflecting performance of the 2006 launch of Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3 consoles. These reports also include IDG's first forecast report for the Japanese hardware and software market.

This subscriber-only research publication provides quarterly updates to IDG's global hardware and software forecast figures, based on continuing developments in the industry.

This 290-page report covers the PC and console games markets in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Benelux and Nordic region. Also included are hardware and software sales and installed base projections through 2010; retailer and distributor profiles; retail market shares; and US video game advertising spend.