Forget PS5 and Xbox - The biggest gaming platform is already in your pocket
By The Washington Post
By Shannon Liao
When the first smartphones debuted in the early 2000s, mobile gaming consisted of simplistic titles such as Snake, where the player leads a snakelike chain of pixels around the screen to eat other pixels and grow longer. Soon the market expanded into word games, like 2009â²s Words with Friends and three-in-a-row matching games like Candy Crush Saga in 2012, both primarily played by people whittling away time on public transportation or in a doctor s waiting room.
Today, over three billion people have smartphones and over two billion of them play games on those phones. Some of those mobile titles now even rival the quality of games traditionally enjoyed on consoles and expensive PCs.
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If you’re not familiar with some of these channels, E3 is making a big push into Chinese, Korean, and even Russian social media platforms.
The best part is, these channels would not be simply be rebroadcasting one common feed. Instead, there will be bespoke programming for each channel.
The only thing missing right now would be the list of gaming companies who will be lending their might to the event.
Running from June 12 to 15, 2021, this means that June will have a week-long gaming content push with Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest making a return on June 10 as well.