How mobile gaming has evolved, as seen through prism of its global awards (interview)

Disclosure: The organizers of IMGA paid my way to Marseille. Our coverage remains objective. 

Maarten Noyons helped start the International Mobile Gaming Awards back in 2004. That was in the days when graphics on feature phones truly sucked, and smartphones and app stores were just visions of the future. Now, the mobile game industry has grown to $30 billion, with revenues expected to exceed the console industry’s this year, according to market researcher Newzoo. The industry is truly global, and so the task of picking the best mobile games of the year has become a complicated beast. The contest is orchestrated by a small crew headed by Noyons, who has been there from the beginning.