Brasil Game Show 2026 closed its doors on Monday, October 12, a national holiday in Brazil (Our Lady of Aparecida and Children’s Day). The show ran for four days at Distrito Anhembi in São Paulo: October 9 was reserved for press, creators and Premium, Camarote and Business Pass holders, while October 10, 11 and 12 were open to the public.

According to the organizers, Saturday (October 10) was the busiest day, with 100% of tickets sold. Booths kept running tournaments and handing out giveaways right up to the last day.

Highlights of the 17th edition

  • Nintendo: 1,000 m² of unreleased games, plus an appearance by Charles Martinet, the longtime voice of Mario.
  • SEGA: its biggest lineup ever at the show, with demos of Crazy Taxi: World Tour, Stranger Than Heaven and Persona 4 Revival, the latter already localized into Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Square Enix: the first playable demo of Final Fantasy VII Revelation in Latin America.
  • Activision and Monster Energy: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 playable ahead of its October 23 launch.
  • International guests: Al Hope and Archie Whitehead of Alien: Isolation 2, Crazy Taxi creator Kenji Kanno, and Video Game Orchestra founder Shota Nakama.

SavePoint on the show floor

On day three, we stopped by the Venn Studios booth, which brought six games to BGS, handed out giveaways to players who completed challenges and even set up a giant dragon statue on the corner of its space. Watch the video (in Portuguese):

More SavePoint videos from BGS 2026 are on our videos page.

What about attendance?

At the time of publication, the organizers had not released total attendance for the 2026 edition. In 2025, BGS reported 306,798 visitors. SavePoint will update this story once the numbers are out.

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