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Ubisoft snaps up a South American game developer

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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French video game giant Ubisoft has acquired Brazilian game developer Southlogic Studios.

Southlogic is the longest-standing game developer in Brazil, with a team of 20 developers and headquarters in Porto Alegre. It has created titles for the PC, handhelds, and home game consoles. It also provides art outsourcing and game adaptation services. Most recently, it worked on Ubisoft’s Imagine: Wedding Designer for the Nintendo DS.

It’ll be interesting to see if South America emerges as the next hot spot for game development talent, and if the country’s diverse markets will start buying masses of video games. In the past, South America has had a lot of problems with piracy. As the region’s game consumption rises, so will its game creation talents.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.