by Stephen Chapman
A new paper has shown that mobile gaming has “skyrocketed” during the lockdown, with 43% of people making in app purchases.
The report from tech firm, Toluna, comes following a survey of more than 1000 mobile gamers aged between 16 and 45 in the UK.
According to the data, 53% of respondents spent more time playing video games on their smartphone compared to 12 months ago.
More than half (52%) are playing more games on their video consoles and 50% more on their handheld game consoles.
Meanwhile 45% of people are using their tablets more to play mobile games.
Smartphone and console gamers said they now spent 80 minutes a day playing games on mobile devices.