OUR NEWEST REPORT!

Game Developer Research is pleased to announce the debut of its thirteenth report, 'Top 50 Developers 2009', an exhaustive survey of the game industry's major developers worldwide. This is a detailed supplement to this month's Top 50 Developers countdown in Game Developer magazine, which saw over 600 industry professionals from Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra.com surveyed regarding their opinions on more than 150 developers, as well as allowing them to rate any relevant experiences with working with the companies in question. This data was used along with sales chart data for the calendar year 2008, number of SKUs from January through December 2008, and average review scores from Metacritic (with the exception of those titles not covered by Metacritic), to determine company rankings.

This expanded report features an in-depth analysis of the developers in question. As well as providing specifics regarding the peer response sections (the “Reputational Survey” and the“Detailed Survey”), company sales chart performance and details regarding developer releases and average review scores according to Metacritic, it also offers detailed comparisons between the top 50 developers in many of the detailed sub-categories.

The full Top 50 Developers report includes over 190 pages and over 28,000 words of data, statistics, charts, comments, and summaries, and should be of eminent interest to game developers, game publishers, game investors, and other business-people inside and outside the game industry.