The Brazilian industry has grown noticeably in four years. The number of gaming companies in the country has more than doubled.

After launching their own game, developers often worry about the question: what kind of retention is considered good, how much time users usually spend in similar projects, what kind of ARPPU competitors have? The new GameAnalytics report, which was first available at White Nights in St. Petersburg, removes such questions.

The information and analytical company Nielsen has signed a two-year cooperation with Riot Games. Nielsen’s work will allow advertisers to evaluate the effectiveness of investments in esports using the example of League of Legends.

During the release week, Valve’s Dota Underlords generated 1.5 million downloads on mobile devices. The game managed to reach this level twice as fast as its direct competitor Auto Chess.

In January-May, sales of Nintendo products on the Russian market for the first time were higher than those of Microsoft. This follows from the report of the group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” for the first five months of 2019.

The South Korean company Nexon was withdrawn from sale. Its owner Kim Jung Ju (Kim Jung Ju) doubted the solvency of buyers.

Apple may leave the Russian market due to a new project of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation. The document assumes mandatory pre-installation of Russian applications on smartphones and tablets sold in Russia.

Unity has introduced the Unity Learn Premium learning platform. Its goal is to help improve 3D development skills in real time.

It was recently reported that the new version of Ubuntu 19.10 for Linux will no longer support the Steam launcher. To solve this problem, the authors of the OS decided to use a more conservative approach to development, and it will save the store for Ubuntu.

Animoca Brands has acquired the entire promotional package of Gamma. The latter is the author of the GammaNow computing application.

More than 9 million players, according to Alex Dale, senior executive director of King, spend three to six hours a day in Candy Crush Saga. But King hastened to challenge the statement of its top manager before the title is associated with the concept of “gaming addiction”.

The developer of Zynga within the decade of the original Farmville shared the number of installations of the franchise. To date, the series has two games for Facebook and three mobile. In total, they generated 700 million installations.

This September, Apple Watch will receive a new operating system, and with it a store and smartphone-independent applications. Anatoly Sharifulin from AppFollow told why this is good.

PUBG Corp. I hired Glen Schofield (Glen Schofield). He is the co-founder of Sledgehammer Games and former general manager of Visceral Games, as well as the executive producer of the original Dead Space.

Wanted: Head of the publishing division Mail.Ru Group, animator at Friday’s Games and senior game programmer at Next Games.

On Monday, CD PROJEKT began a closed beta test of the second version of the GOG game store. With it, you can combine your game libraries from different platforms into one. The developers of the service did not have time to agree with all the stores about support. However, this did not prevent the emergence of unofficial integrations, which added almost all the main sites to the new GOG.

In South Korea, a ban on boosting other people’s game characters has come into force. For violating the ban, gamers face either a fine of $ 18 thousand, or up to two years in prison.

To promote the Archero mobile hit, the Instagram toolkit was actively involved. He provided 48% of all advertising impressions of the game on iOS.

Mobile developer Kolibri Games boasts of the achievement. Two of his clickers — Idle Miner Tycoon and Idle Factory Tycoon — have accumulated 100 million downloads in total.