Towards the end of the 20th century, mobile phone ownership became ubiquitous in the industrialised world- due to the establishment of industry standards, and the rapid fall in cost of handset ownership, and use driven by

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Total global revenue from mobile games was estimated at $2.6 billion in 2005 by Informa Telecoms and Media. Total revenue in 2008 was $5.8 billion. The largest mobile gaming

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Mobile games have been developed to run on a wide variety of platforms and technologies. These include the (today largely defunct)

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With the introduction of the iOS App Store and support for in-app purchases by October 2009, the methods through which mobile games earn revenue have diverged significantly away from traditional game models on consoles or computers. Since 2009, a number of models

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Games played on a mobile device using localization technology like GPS are called location-based games or location-based mobile games. These are not only played on mobile hardware but

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Mobiles devices have been used as a platform for Augmented reality (AR in short) games, using the device's camera(s) to as an input for the game. While playing the game, the player aims the device's camera at a location and through the device's

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Mobile games tend to be small in scope (in relation to mainstream PC and console games) and many prioritise innovative design and ease of play

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