Mobile Gaming Archive
If you’re a mobile gamer, today is a good time to be alive. Okay, that might be hyperbole. After all, mobile gaming has only been around for about 20 years. But early mobile games were barely what we would call games anymore. Yes, Snake and Jawbreaker have a certain charm for those of us who grew up playing them. But modern mobile gaming is about …
Back in the early days of gaming, there weren’t really any controller options. You could use the controller that came with your system, and that was about it. For a traditional console, that can be frustrating, but it’s not downright terrible. After all, the included controller is presumably ergonomic. The same thing isn’t true for smartphones. After all, phones have to perform a variety of …
A few years back, if you said “mobile gaming”, you meant Candy Crush or something similar. These kind of lightweight games are one way to while away a few minutes. But they’re a distinctly “mobile” type of game. You wouldn’t pay $60 to play Candy Crush on your PlayStation like you would for a AAA game. But mobile gaming is quickly turning into a more …
These days, mobile gaming is bigger than ever. This is a result of a variety of factors. First is the increased processing power of modern smartphones. If you go back 20 years, people still played games on their phone. But let’s face it. An old-school game of Snake doesn’t hold a candle to the console or PC games of the time. On a modern phone, …
Back in the early days of gaming, handheld game systems were some of the hottest choices on the market. Games like Pokemon, Kirby’s Dream Land, and Dr. Mario were among the most popular of their generation. With the mass adoption of smartphones, handheld consoles have gone the way of the dodo. But that doesn’t mean that mobile gaming is going anywhere. Far from it! Beginning …