The era of the mobile game has arrived. The mobile game utilizes GPS technology and is taking the world by storm. A mobile game uses a player’s geographic locations to create gaming content blending the real world the virtual world. From blended reality treasure hunts and mock turf wars to a capture-the-flag-styled mobile game and virtual ghost hunting the new world of the mobile game offers a unique range of alternative ways to make use of the GPS technology. This alternative use for GPS is helping to strengthen the demand for GPS on mobile devices and is paving the way for a future filled with mobile games using a player’s geo location as a part of the game. This blending of an ordinary reality with virtual reality is the beginning of a technological breakthrough we’ll soon see skew further the line of what player’s consider real and not. 

Every year the gaming industry strives harder and harder to make the games for their consoles look more real, to put the player into a virtual world so detailed and so graphic the player literally feels they are in the game. A Geo location based mobile game takes the player’s physical location and constructs gaming content based around that location using the reality the gamer is already experiencing as the backdrop for the mobile game. Video game consoles do just the opposite, using a completely digitalized version of an imaginary location existing only in the video game as a backdrop. 

Reinventing mobile phones into mobile game controllers opens the world of gaming to individuals who don’t want to spend the money on an Xbox or PS3 but still want to play games. The reliance of the mobile game on interaction with the physical environment brings it’s own appeal. Video game consoles have closeted users indoors requiring them to be within close proximity to a television. Disconnecting gaming to television is a huge leap for the gaming industry. By doing this, the industry opens doors to people around the world who can’t afford a television set, electricity or a game console, but whom instead have cell phones they can use to play a mobile game. Each of those individuals can entertain themselves playing a geo location based mobile game needing only their cell phone. The emergence of the mobile game offers an affordable gaming option for people in areas of the world where cell phone service is abundant while electricity is scarce.