Italy ranks tenth in the world in terms of gaming market revenue. Italians will spend $2 billion on games this year, Newzoo predicts. If Newzoo’s forecast comes true, it will mean that the market has grown by $0.2 billion over the year — last year it was estimated at $1.8 billion.

Mexico ranks 12th in terms of gaming market turnover. In 2018, the players of this country will spend $ 1.6 billion, Newzoo predicts.

Russia ranks 11th in the world in terms of the turnover of the gaming market, the analytical company Newzoo has calculated. According to her, by the end of the year, the country’s market will earn $ 1.7 billion.

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.

Australia currently ranks 14th in the world in terms of player spending, Newzoo analysts have calculated. The total revenue of the market in 2018 will be $1.3 billion.

According to the estimates of the analytical company Newzoo, Taiwan’s gaming market ranks 15th in the world in terms of revenue. Local gamers will spend about $1.3 billion this year.

In 2018, the esports market reached $926.3 million in revenue, and by 2023, industry revenues will grow to $2.17 billion, according to the analytical company Research and Markets.

The developer of the banking software ACI and the analytical company Newzoo investigated the habits of gamers in three countries to understand how and for what they are willing to pay money in video games.

Google Play and the analytical company Newzoo have published the results of a study on how American teenage girls see their career prospects in the field of mobile game development. According to researchers, many girls who could potentially engage in game design do not see a place for themselves in the industry because of stereotypes around games.

The analytical platform Newzoo compared the audience composition of the two most popular “royal battles” — Fortnite Battle Royale and PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS. It turned out that PUBG is more often played by adults and independent gamers, and young people and students predominate among Fortnite fans.

Newzoo has published a forecast for the games market for this year. The company’s experts believe that the revenue from the games by the end of 2018 will amount to $ 137.9 billion. This is 13.3% more than the industry earned last year.

The analytical company Newzoo compared the performance of the largest streaming platforms Twitch and YouTube Gaming in the 1st quarter of 2018. Twitch leads by a margin in the main parameters, but in some indicators YouTube Gaming is catching up and even overtaking its competitor.

On April 9, a post by Thomas Wijman, a consultant for the company, appeared on the Newzoo blog about the state of affairs in mobile gaming in India. Thomas believes that the largest state in South Asia is worth special attention today.

The analytical company Newzoo has published an overview of the market of games in the genre of battle royale. The document tells the history of the segment, and also describes what is happening in this direction today. A brief retelling of the report is on our pages.

The profitability of the esports industry is rapidly increasing. In 2017, the turnover of the international virtual competition market was estimated at $655 million. Compared to the previous year, the increase was 33%, according to a report by Newzoo.

The free-play mode of the “royal battle” pulls the Fortnite online shooter to the top of the rating of the most played titles. In November of this year, Fortnite rose to the 10th place in the list of the most popular games on the PC platform.

Women are more active and enthusiastic mobile players than men. So says a joint study of the Google Play platform and the rating site Newzoo.

The growth rate of the global video game market is ahead of experts’ forecasts. In 2017, gaming industry revenues will reach a value of $116 billion, an increase of 10.7% compared to last year, according to the analytical company Newzoo.

The Grand Theft Auto gaming franchise is being promoted by its fans more actively than others, according to a new study by Newzoo on the loyalty index (Net Promoter Score, NPS) of the most popular franchises in the video game industry.