The world of videogames is changing fast. Consoles were the most common platform for games for decades, but PCs have come on strong in recent years, and the number of games being played on tablets and smartphones is surging.

According to the Open Gaming Alliance, an association of companies in the gaming industry, global software revenue for PC games overtook revenue for console games in 2012, and the association expects mobile games to top the software revenue of console games in 2019.

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