vegas hero — Last night, I stepped into a London club that was almost entirely run by a smartphone. The entrance gate scanned a QR code, the bar queue was managed through an app, and the DJ’s playlist was curated by real‑time crowd feedback.
United Kingdom: When the first iPhone launched in 2007, the App Store opened a door that has since expanded into a multibillion‑pound market. Today, more than 3.5 billion people own a smartphone, and 1.5 billion of them download a game each month.
United Kingdom: When I first tried a game streamed from a data centre in the middle of a weekend, the load time was under three seconds – a figure you’d normally only see on a high‑end console with an SSD. That instant start made me realise the promise of cloud gaming isn’t just “play anywhere”…