🎮 Tech roundup: The Brazilian video game boom

Welcome to our Tech Roundup. In this week’s edition, we take a look at the strides made by Brazil’s gaming industry. 

Gaming is a thriving industry in Brazil

The Brazilian video game industry has seen 169-percent growth in the last four years, with the number of domestic developers increasing from 375 to 1,009. 

The figure was presented by national video game developer association Abragames during the latest edition of the BIG Festival, Latin America’s largest event for video game releases and showcases of innovations in digital entertainment. 

A global game. Eliana Russi, Abragames’s executive director, largely credits this growth to the industry’s pandemic-induced globalization. Due to the crumbling of geographic barriers and the popularization of remote work, Brazil became “very close.”

• “It became easier for us to work with practically any international partner,” she tells The Brazilian Report.
• Aided by Abragames’s partnership with Apex Brazil, the country’s trade investment and promotion agency, she claims that homegrown developers have switched to global sales strategies.

A market in the West. The Abragames report stated that...