Global market analytics company Nielsen has acquired SuperData Research. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Ex-employees of BioWare Austin Dallas Dickinson (Dallas Dickinson) and Gabe Amantangelo (Game Amantangelo) told how Electronic Arts forced them to leave the famous studio and open their own company for the sake of reviving their own project.

The revenue of Nintendo’s highest-grossing mobile game continues to grow. This summer, the role-playing tactics of Fire Emblem Heroes earned $63 million. Compared to the same period last year, revenue increased by 34%, according to Sensor Tower.

British screenwriter and game designer Alexis Kennedy wrote an article on Gamasutra about how not to tire a gamer with information about the game world. Kennedy is known as the author of the browser quest Fallen London and the “bagel” Sunless Sea.

Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag is dissatisfied with his compatriots from Avalanche Studios. This summer, the studio announced the game Generation Zero, the setting of which is very similar to the plots of Stalenhag’s works. The artist claims that he knew nothing about the project. Simon has no legal claims, but he is annoyed that his style was borrowed without asking.

The European rating system PEGI will begin to warn buyers of physical copies of video games about the presence of domestic purchases. To do this, a special symbol will be applied to the packaging of games with transactions. The new rule will come into force in the coming months.

The turnover of the gaming market in Russia will double in the next five years — from $2.2 billion to $4.8 billion By 2022, the gaming sector will overtake TV advertising in revenue and come in third place in the revenue structure of the Russian media and entertainment industry. This is stated in the study “World Entertainment and Media Review: Forecast for 2018-2022” by PwC consulting company.

There are many online services and solutions for Internet marketing. The Game Career Guide edition has prepared an overview of several tools that can help independent developers independently promote their projects both for free and for moderate money.

On August 27, CD Projekt Red for the first time unveiled the gameplay of the future role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077. The developers demonstrated about an hour of gameplay on the Twitch stream service. At the peak of activity, 459 thousand viewers watched the broadcast at the same time, which set a daily record and made the Cyberpunk 2077 stream one of the most popular shows on Twitch this month.

Riot Games company intends to plan the budget of the League of Legends championships more responsibly. This was announced by the head of the esports direction of Riot Derrick Asiedu (Derrick Asiedu) on the Reddit forum.

Belgian players in Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm will soon not be able to buy loot boxes. Blizzard will disable this feature to comply with local laws — the country’s authorities have recognized luboks as gambling mechanics and banned publishers from monetizing titles in this way.

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On July 31, 2018, the independent studio Bit Kid released a two-dimensional action role-playing film Chasm, which she worked on for five years. Bit Kid Marketing and PR Director Dan Adelman spoke about how the company maintained the interest of players in the project throughout the development period and attracted the attention of a new audience to it.

The Battle for Azeroth addon for the role-playing MMO game World of Warcraft has beaten the sales figures of the first day of all previous additions to the popular online project of Blizzard Entertainment.

Epic Games has started encouraging players to take care of the security of their accounts. As a reward for enabling two-factor authentication, the company gives gamers an exclusive emotion-the Boogie Down dance.

What becomes the main obstacle for most independent developers? The creator of the indie platformer Spelunky, Derek Yu, tried to answer this question on his Twitter. In his opinion, if a developer wants to succeed in his business, he needs to learn not to abandon projects halfway, but to consistently bring them to the final.

The analytical firm NPD Group has prepared a review of the gaming market of the United States of America in July 2018. According to the company, the highest-grossing game last month was the Switch-exclusive Octopath Traveler from Square Enix.

The famous Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (Shigeru Miyamoto) appealed to colleagues in the gaming industry with a request not to be so greedy for gamers’ money. According to him, Nintendo partially avoids free—play monetization models precisely for this reason – the company does not want to ruin players. Miyamoto stated this on August 22 during a speech at the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference held in Yokohama.

The head of the Blizzard Entertainment Community Development Department, Saralyn Smith, spoke about the role of the gaming community in the company’s work and ways of cooperation between game creators and their fans. Smith spoke at the Devcom conference taking place these days in Cologne.