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The Growth of Mobile Gaming Words by Gabriel Pe
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aming has played a massive part in my life. It drove my interest in tech and, eventually, esports. As a gamer, I have followed how gaming has evolved over time and how technology has been a massive force behind it.
PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series X/S, and PC gaming, all vying for ultra-realistic graphics and complex gameplay. But alongside the PCs and consoles, there was another device that had its own gaming revolution — the mobile phone. Mobile games have kept us entertained, from the old Snake game on your Nokia phones, to the days of Cut the Rope, Temple Run, and Angry Birds, to the current score of amazing titles like Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, and esports titles like Mobile Legends and Wild Rift.
In the early Atari days, memory and processing power allowed only limited gameplay. The rise of Nintendo and the 8-bit NES revolutionized home consoles. GameBoy inspired a generation of kids to love games. The arrival of PlayStation and Xbox sparked a new generation of console wars. Now we have the
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