The GamesIndustry portal, based on data from the IIDEA association, published statistics on the Italian gaming market.

Another report on the gaming industry has been released. The Italian Association of Interactive Digital Entertainment (IIDEA) spoke about the situation in Italy.

In Italy, Apple is unhappy. The Antimonopoly Authority of the country believes that the privacy policy in force on iOS may violate the competition law.

Italian game studios will be able to compensate up to a million euros from the cost of developing their projects. This was announced by the local government, which intends to introduce a special 25% tax deduction.

IIDEA (the Italian Association of Interactive Digital Entertainment) has prepared a report on the state of the Italian gaming industry by the end of 2020. The total market turnover exceeded €2 billion. Despite the growth of the mobile sector, console games bring the main revenue, while the PC remains the most popular platform for development.The IIDEA study is based on an online survey that was conducted from February 24 to April 1, 2021.

The turnover of another gaming market has updated the historical maximum. This time we are talking about Italy. Last year, local gamers spent over €2 billion on games for the first time. That’s just the number of Italians playing games has decreased slightly — to 16.7 million people (in 2019 there were 17 million of them).

Italy ranks tenth in the world in terms of gaming market revenue. Italians will spend $2 billion on games this year, Newzoo predicts. If Newzoo’s forecast comes true, it will mean that the market has grown by $0.2 billion over the year — last year it was estimated at $1.8 billion.