Newsweek:

The big boys at the E3 convention last week were all stationed conveniently at the front of the convention center in booths with gaudy, neon-light decorations. Small businesses were tucked away in the back, hoping for the seldom visitor to visit their booth. The decor of these backwater booths is less sales and more “job fair,” with cheap tables and chairs and small posters.

Down the aisle away from the virtual reality porn booth, which was a smash hit with visitors, was an empty booth with a small table and chairs. A paper taped to the wall read “DC Games Group.” Its neighbors also did not know where the company was. They said it was empty for the whole show.

DC Games Group, which never made it to this year’s E3, is a video game distributor in Tehran, importing and selling American video games for Iranian gamers. It also helps translate video games from English to Farsi, Iran’s dominant language.

While other Middle Eastern countries like Turkey and the United Arab Emirates were also at E3, Iran was a surprise. The country has long been economically strangled by U.S. sanctions, which would seem to make it a strange place for Western excesses such as PlayStations. And there’s the country’s Islamist government, which disagrees with Western values...

Go to link