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For optimism in games, look at Brazil | The DeanBeat

It's not easy to find good news in the game industry these days. But on my trip to see the Gamescom Latam event in Sao Paolo, Brazil, it was plentiful.

Lots of young people were lined up to play global games like Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree to smaller local titles like Gixer’s Changer Seven. With the passage of this landmark law, Brazilians feel like they are on a competitive par with other aggressively pro-game governments around the world in Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, Australia, New Zealand and some of the U.S. states. Jason Della Rocca, former head of the International Game Developers Association and founder of Execution Labs, said in a talk that the new Brazilian law sets up the industry for support in cultural, innovation and business efforts — a coordination that you can’t find in many of the other pro-game countries.

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