Resonance-Gaming released today its midyear report on the state of PC games, which covers the next six months. The report combines data from several external sources and provides a simplified analysis.

Four main topics are covered, the first of which is Game Genre Distribution. Here we have a generalized chart using 10 games in each month leading up the end of the year. The chart shows which genres are currently being developed the most and the least:

For whatever reason, 'RPG' isn't included on this list, which is typically a popular enough genre on the PC. Perhaps no straight-RPGs are scheduled for the rest of year, and those in the hack 'n slash genre are filed under 'Action'?

Game Release Date Changes also uses 10 games from each month, and generalizes the average percentage of games which have been delayed since the first press release announcing a date:

70% is actually quite a good figure for the industry, which is typically notorious for delays. I'd be very interested to see these figures for console games.

Minor \ Major Distribution uses another mixed set of games due to be released in the next six months, averaging the percentage of high budget games versus low budget games. This data is collected where possible from press releases, otherwise based mainly on studio size and average budget "rather than pure facts":

Looks like the minor/independent studios are ruling, here. Of course, this makes sense on a platform where digital distribution for modern titles is prominent.

Publisher Percentage Distribution displays the percentage of games publishers are releasing, thus telling us the largest players in the PC world, at least for the next six months. Any publisher with less than 2 games on schedule is contained within the 'other' category:

Judging from these last two charts, it appears we have a large number of minor/independent studios working with a large and evenly distributed number of minor/independent publishers, with Ubisoft being the odd exception, a large independent.