Crazy Taxi: World Tour adds Brazil map at Brasil Game Show 2026
Key takeaways
- SEGA revealed Brazil as the fourth story‑mode map for Crazy Taxi: World Tour at BGS 2026
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches October 23 and was playable at BGS
- Ragnarok Yggdrasil open beta for Latin America begins late November on PC, Android, iOS
- Tripo P2.0 supports quad topology, up to 50,000 polygons, and holds a São Paulo demo day Oct 11
Brasil Game Show 2026 opened its doors with a morning BGS Conference at Arena Monster, and SEGA used the stage to world‑premiere a new Brazil map for Crazy Taxi: World Tour’s story mode. The reveal came during an roughly 80‑minute conference that ran before the show floor opened, with creator Kenji Kanno onstage to introduce the footage and describe the team’s approach to the new stage.
The conference lineup mixed game announcements with hardware and service reveals. SEGA showed a guided video tour of Brazil’s level — city streets, coastline, coffee culture, beaches and lively nightlife — presented as the fourth country in Crazy Taxi: World Tour’s story mode; the game’s story mode is new to the title alongside the multiplayer mode that recently ran a closed beta. Kanno, who worked on the original 1999 Crazy Taxi and later entries, said the Brazil stage was crafted with players in mind and that both long‑time fans and newcomers should enjoy it. SEGA also set up a booth on the show floor where attendees could play part of the game.
Square Enix opened the conference with a video message from Final Fantasy VII Remake producer Yoshinori Kitase, who thanked Brazilian fans for their support and explained he could not attend in person because the title is still in development. Kitase announced that a public playable demo of Final Fantasy VII REVELATION would be available in South America for the first time at BGS, and that the demo supports Brazilian Portuguese. SEGA returned later in the program with a segment for Alien: Isolation 2; Creative Director Al Hope and environment artist Archie Whitehead presented a new trailer and noted a prologue build of the sequel was playable at the SEGA booth.
Several international publishers and developers also presented. NetEase Games’ Sea of Remnants was shown via trailer, with the hosts describing it as a naval survival title and noting a partnership with payment service Smile.One; both companies share a booth on the show floor. Devolver Digital sent Graciele Dias, UX/UI artist on Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2, and the game’s playable demo was available at the Devolver booth ahead of the October 14 release. Activision returned to BGS for the first time in seven years: attendees could try Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on PC at the Monster Energy booth and on Nintendo Switch 2 at Nintendo’s booth, and the publisher confirmed Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23.
Ragnarok Yggdrasil, presented via messages read by hosts Ana XD and Marco Ribeiro, will be an MMORPG connecting six godly kingdoms through the world tree Yggdrasil. The game will feature over 70 cities on the map, battles supporting up to 300 participants, six classes that players can swap between without losing progress, and a planned release on PC, Android and iOS. An open beta for Latin America is scheduled to start at the end of November, and the game’s booth on the floor included a 12‑station mobile play area for hands‑on time.
Hardware and peripheral brands filled much of the conference time. ThunderX3 announced a rebrand to TX3 and highlighted two new chairs — Yama New and Solo 360 — plus licensed designs like Core Smart and TGC12. Separately, a different company named ThunderX (operated by Nublify) launched a cloud gaming service called ThunderX at 13:00 on the show’s opening day; the platform integrates with users’ Steam and other accounts and aims to let players stream heavier PC titles without upgrading local hardware. Havit returned for a second consecutive year to introduce the Fuse H3 Ultra headset, which supports head‑tracking 360° spatial audio, five connection modes and active noise cancellation, and a new Houyi mouse line (M1–M4) as part of a Legend Series themed around Chinese deities.
Tripo AI presented its Tripo P2.0 3D model generator to the Latin American audience for the first time, with regional manager Wang Ningning noting the tool generates quad topology natively, outputs meshes up to 50,000 polygons, and includes automatic rigging to make exported models easier to edit and animate. The company said its creator base tops 20 million users worldwide and that Brazil is becoming its third‑largest market; Tripo will hold an offline demo day in São Paulo on October 11 as part of the show. Local distributor Cellfy showcased imported peripherals from MCHOSE and PXN and announced a sim‑racing tournament on the show’s final day that uses PXN equipment.
Other booth highlights included Fandombox’s collectable figures and Masterpiece model kits, with more than 60 collections and 150 models available and blind boxes of the BGS mascot robot Bot GS offered on the floor; the blind boxes include three pose variants and a one‑in‑ten chance of receiving a gold figure that grants the winner a ticket to BGS 2027. Quiz&Show, created by the team behind escape room operator Escape 60, brought a televised‑style game show experience complete with lighting, sound and a host; BGS visitors could try three event formats including a roulette‑based competitive game. Monster Energy’s booth hosted Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 playable sessions and ran a promotion rewarding larger purchases of cans with better prizes; onstage, the hosts toasted with the company’s new strawberry flavor.
Why it matters
Takeaway: SEGA used BGS 2026’s opening conference to add a Brazil stage to Crazy Taxi: World Tour’s new story mode and to put a playable slice of several upcoming titles on the floor, while the event mix of local‑friendly announcements, peripheral launches and Latin‑America‑first demos underlined how BGS pairs big publisher reveals with hands‑on and retail‑oriented activity for attendees.
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