Meanwhile, the Recording Industry Association of America pegged its U.S. members' sales at $10.4 billion in 2007, down 11.8 per cent from the year before and with a further drop expected for 2008. Full Story

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Help strengthen the Canadian Interactive Media Industry by completing the 2008 Canadian Interactive Industry Profile Questionnaire!
 
The Canadian Interactive Alliance/L’Alliance interactive canadienne (CIAIC) is looking to build a complete profile of Canada’s  interactive media industry, including all companies in Canada that work in or service the interactive media industry, either completely or partially.

Click on this link to begin the survey.

The 2008 Canadian Interactive Industry Profile (CIIP) will assist the CIAIC in strengthening the Canadian interactive industry by increasing investment and partnering opportunities and improving the business climate for interactive media. Since the interactive industry is not routinely tracked by government agencies such as Statistics Canada, it is up to the industry to produce a comprehensive economic and operational profile to present to relevant decision makers.

(From Media In Canada) Canada's first interactive video game promotion is coming to Toronto's Dundas Square through Toronto-based Outdoor Broadcast Network (OBN). Full Story

From The Globe and Mail - NEW YORK — Americans may be cutting back on holiday shopping, but they are still buying video games – nearly $3-billion (U.S.) worth in November, according to data from market researcher NPD Group.

U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories jumped 10 per cent last month from a year ago to $2.91-bllion, boosted by strong sales of Nintendo Co.'s Wii, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 along with the alien shooter game Gears of War 2. (Full Story)

RIM also said Thursday it is lending the Vancouver-based mobile-media software maker $2.2 million to provide working capital until the deal is completed. (Full Story)

(From the Globe and Mail) In a corner of the office Jeffrey Elliott and Raja Khanna share at GlassBox Television sits the one thing on which they just can't agree: a set of aging, brown corduroy couches. The two entrepreneurs, who teamed up this summer as co-CEOs of the upstart broadcasting company, are in sync on the big issues—how the TV business is in a profound state of flux as broadcasters either embrace or fortify themselves against the Internet; how teenagers who've abandoned TV for the Web can be lured back with the right content; and how, in the wake of massive industry consolidation, a small, independent channel can still wedge itself in among the networks. Full Story

(From The Globe and Mail)

KYOTO, Japan — Nintendo Co. Ltd. said sales of its Wii game console more than doubled during the Thanksgiving holiday week in the United States, defying the sweeping retail gloom in the wake of a global economic crisis. President Satoru Iwata's comments come as a rare bright spot at a time when companies around the world are cutting production and lowering their outlooks amid the global downturn. Full Story