The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, has received today at the headquarters of the ministry the Spanish video game sector, which has been represented by the Spanish Video Game Association (AEVI) and the Spanish Association of Companies Producing and Developing Video Games and Entertainment Software (DEV), as well as the studios Fictiorama Studios and Electronic Arts.

Currently, Spain is ranked as the third market in the European Union’s video game, after Germany and France. In 2023 the Spanish sector reached a record turnover, growing by 16.3% from 2022, to 2,339 million euros. The number of development studies increased in 2023 from 432 to 524, employing more than 7,000 people. In addition, the number of video game players in Spain is estimated at almost 20 million.

The meeting is part of the work agenda of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function to promote the Spanish video game sector, one of the central sectors of Spain Audiovisual Hub of Europe (Spain AVS Hub), component of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. Specifically, the meeting addressed the new financial mechanisms of the second phase of the plan that articulates the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation, Public Business Entity (SETT), endowed with 1,712 million euros, and which aim to support the consolidation of the sector, providing it with greater resilience and operating capacity. Thus, the intention of the Government of Spain is to continue supporting the audiovisual sector, making it stronger, more competitive and with greater leadership capacity in a global market.

On the part of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, the Minister, the General Director of Digitalization Services and Audiovisual Communication Management, Carla Redondo Galbarriatu, and the Audiovisual Director of the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation, Public Business Entity (SETT), María Coronado, participated in the meeting.