With smartphones and tablets graduating from flashy luxury to day-to-day essential, people of all ages and gaming backgrounds now carry one of the world's best consoles with them at all times. It's actually pretty crazy when you stop and think about it for a moment. Your parents probably have better games in their pocket right now than you had during your entire childhood. As well as checking their emails and taking pictures of their pets, they can now solve puzzles waiting at the dentist, play platformers on long train journeys, and blow loads of stuff up when they get an hour to themselves at home. Many more serious gamers roll their eyes at this sort of thing, but having a marketplace that's full of new developers selling brand new titles for less than the price of a coffee is a brilliant thing. Video games used to be the preserve of a hardcore few, dropping inordinate sums of money on titles, consoles, and the equipment to best realise them on - now the whole world can play whenever they want, wherever they are. The iPad has flourished in this regard, and now boasts a lot of games that are as engaging, as exciting, and as enjoyable as anything that's currently available on XBox One and PS4. Skeptical? Then take a look.
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