Drums, cash grants, and bubbling capybaras: How Latin America's game dev creatives are outgrowing outsourcing (opens in new tab)

Easily missed among last week’s advert marathon was the : an exhibition that, at over eighty games strong, dwarfed the Keighley-fronted main event, yet has received only a small fraction of the eyeballs. Less than two months earlier, 154,000 visitors poured into Gamescom Latam to see games made across Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Uruguay and more - but while that attendance was on the previous year, it totalled less than half the footfall of 2025’s Gamescom Cologne. All th...