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Brazil game industry seeks tax breaks, game dev survey and cultural recognition

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Brazil’s growing game industry is seeking official recognition from the government in a vote that may come up before the country’s legislature soon.

As a relatively young industry, gaming always has to be aggressive about getting access to the same cultural and government recognition as other entertainment, as well as tax breaks. Games are also an industry where — at least in most years — there is the promise of job creation in the future.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.