Oh that analyst Michael Pachter. He makes many many (many) claims about the gaming industry, but what do we know about him? Well here are 57 facts about the man you may not know.

Like action heroes Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer before him, the gaming industry’s very own coin-tossing Merlin (Michael Pachter) has his very own line of jokes to serve tribute to his notorious “Magic 8-ball” approach to analyzing the industry.

Of course, I hadn’t heard about the damn things before today, but James assures me they’ve been around for ages (or at least several months). Son of a bitch, I’ve been missing out! It’s like these things came out of nowhere, just like the wizard himself.

Earlier today, the Twitter community managed to get their grubby hands on a #PachterFacts tag and went to town. I rooted through a bunch an picked out some of my favorites—100 50 57, to be exact. Of course, all facts are credited to the user who posted them (conveniently linked by lucky accident).

PacoDG via bingegamer.net »