Spanish Video Game Industry Seeks Its Place in the Sun

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Madrid: Buoyed by a dynamic domestic market and greater global visibility, Spain’s video game industry is on the rise, with a handful of studios looking to compete with sector giants.

“The sector is currently enjoying good momentum,” said José María Moreno, secretary general of the Spanish video games association Aevi, which groups over 80 Spanish video game firms. “Spain is in the process of finding its place on the world map of video game makers,” he added.

While there are no video game industry heavyweights in the country like France’s Ubisoft, Poland’s CD Projekt, or Electronic Arts of the United States, many independent studios are “very creative,” Moreno said.