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Yes, it’s back: Matt Matthews’ NPD breakdown, and this time the month of June has come under his enormous microscope.

It’s even better than last month‘s we think. No reason. It just is. It’s got to be. It’s five pages long.

Have a read, innit.

Having been pipped to the January NPD analysis post by Edge’s Kris Graft last week, Gamasutra’s posted up its exclusive Matt Mathews feature on the US sales numbers.

As ever, it’s a solid effort. Nice graphs. Sombre colouring. Great pies. Very authoritative. Not as Day-glo as the Edge piece, but you can’t have everything.

Do you need to read all this again? Off you go, then.

Edge doesn’t take shit lying down. No sir. Despite losing the delights of Matt Mathews’ famed NPD analysis features back to Gamasutra in November, Edge’s own Kris Graft has stepped up to the plate with his own graphs, his own words, his own coloured pie charts based on the monthly NPD release. See here.

It’s good. Strong colours for the graphs and four whole pages. And it’s fast. The figures were only released last night, and Mathews’ piece is yet to appear. Has Matt been flanked? How will Gama respond? Features an hour after the NPD release, 20 pages long with 4D graphs?

This sort of stuff keeps us awake at night. Check Kris’s pies out.

Matt Matthews’ relentless NPD analysis continues, with his latest Gamasutra feature carrying with the usual dump of graphs, words and numbers.

We’re almost at the full year, so this is a good one to watch. We’re sure there’s a page through there without a graph on it, however. We’ll let it go this time, Matt.