EghtesadOnline: Iranian gamers spent 1.31 trillion rials ($5.24 million) on video games in the fiscal 2020-21, Iran’s Digital Games Research Center reported.

EghtesadOnline: A total of 6.7 million video gamers live in Iranian villages, accounting for 24% of the total number of Iranian players.

EghtesadOnline: Mobile games developed by foreign firms dominate Iranian Android market Cafe Bazaar and only 28% of video games published on the platform are made locally.

EghtesadOnline: Almost a quarter of the 28 million Iranians who play video games are children under 12 years of age, the results of a survey conducted by Iran’s Digital Games Research Center (DIREC) and a local market study firm Hitech Monitor show.