Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack
A free directory of trends, reporting, data, and primary sources behind the video gaming market in 10+ countries. For strategists, researchers, journalists, and incorrigible button mashers. Pew pew pew!
Last updated 6 October 2026
What's inside
What's moving the games industry?
Trends
What is moving the industry, read on Three Horizons: the system running down, the fight over what replaces it, and the few early signs of what comes next.
- H1 8
- H2 23
- H3 3
- Perennial 9
Markets
How the gaming industry works in each country and where people play and gather.
- BR Brazil
- CA Canada
- CN China
- FR France
- DE Germany
- IN India
- IT Italy
- JP Japan
- MENA
- KR South Korea
- UK United Kingdom
- US United States
Industry
The platforms and storefronts where games are sold, and a map of genres across them.
- 38 Platforms
- 30 Genres
Media
- YouTube channels 66 Game Maker's Toolkit · Gameranx
- Podcasts 49 WhatCulture Gaming · Button Boys
- Books and papers 44 Power Play: Video Games, Politics, and the Battle for Global Influence (2026) · Millennial Monsters (2006)
- Newsletters 28 GameDev Reports · Brutally Honest
People
The analysts, journalists, and executives setting the conversation.
- Christopher Dring Founder, The Game Business (ex-GamesIndustry.biz)
- Jason Schreier Reporter, Bloomberg
- Joost van Dreunen NYU Stern, SuperJoost Playlist
Resources
The data brokers, government institutions, and press outlets that cover the industry.
- 357 Press outlets
- 167 Associations, agencies and institutions
- 124 Datasets, trackers and research firms
Communities
Where players actually talk, in their own languages. Good for temperature and context, unreliable for facts.
- Namu Wiki (나무위키) Korean
- 5ch (５ちゃんねる) Japanese
- Reddit (r/Games, country + game subs) English
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