The Abragames Association has published a 149-page report on the Brazilian gaming industry. We share facts from it.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has criticized video games. He said that they can make children more aggressive and provoke violence.

Brazil’s mobile gaming market is booming. Analytical company data.ai I calculated that last year Brazilians spent $640 million on in-game purchases in them. This is 12.3% more than in 2021.

The Administrative Council for the Economic Protection of Brazil (CADE) said it approved the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corporation without any restrictions.

This will make it the tenth largest in the world, Newzoo analysts predict.

The Brazilian authorities have launched an investigation, according to the results of which the country may completely ban loot boxes. Several major publishers are mentioned in the case. Companies that refuse to turn off these mechanics in the event of a ban may face daily fines of over $700 thousand.The National Association of Centers for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (ANCED) appealed to the authorities to ban loot boxes.

The Brazilian gaming market is thriving, which cannot be said about the gamers themselves. Last year, the players brought the country $1.6 billion. At the same time, most people can only afford mobile games, Newzoo analysts write.

The turnover of the Brazilian gaming market grew to $2.24 billion over the year. 40% of this amount is revenue from mobile games.

Mobile developer and publisher Wildlife Studios has raised $60 million to expand the business. As part of the financing round, the company was valued at $1.3 billion.

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

Brazil ranks 13th in terms of spending by gamers, according to the analytical company Newzoo. According to her forecasts, by the end of the year Brazilians will spend $ 1.5 billion on the games.

The analytical company Fiksu has studied how much it costs to get into the top 25 free App Store apps in different countries. It turned out that the most “expensive” country is the USA.

The prolonged fashion for retro in the wake of imitations and the desire of many teams to save on art, still sometimes leads to amazing projects that would never have come out if the market had not been ready to accept numerous strange, often unreasonably popular products that exploit the love of older players for their first games.

The ideological heir of racing games of the late 80s – early 90s – Horizon Chase – will be released this August.

The number of mobile ad views in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC countries) increased by 90% compared to the previous year and amounts to 84 billion per month. This was reported by Venturebeat resource with reference to its own research of the Glispa marketing agency.

According to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency, 19.54 million new mobile users appeared in the country over the past year.