By Kane Fulton
With 1 million games downloaded every day, French publisher Gameloft is one of the planet’s biggest smartphone videogame developers.
If you’ve ever whipped out your handset to take a look at the latest titles in the iOS App Store or Google Play Store, the chances are you’ll have come across Gameloft’s Call of Duty-esque Modern Combat series, or one of its high-speed Asphalt racers.
In recent times it has brought new franchises Sniper Fury and Dungeon Hunter, in addition to quiz game Trivial Pursuit to smartphones.
The evolution of mobile hardware has allowed developers to take advantage of increasingly powerful computing and graphics processors in recent years. And for Nicolas Pochez, MD UK & Ireland at Gameloft, smartphones are more advanced than traditional games consoles on a technical level.
“If I was to be bold, I would say that mobile gaming has overtaken console gaming, but it depends on the machine,” he said at OMD UK’s Innovation Week. “Looking at smartphones today, some are faster than three-year-old PCs.”
The more that smartphones increase in power, the less it makes sense for games to be played on tiny six-inch (and smaller) …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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