The gaming industry is depressed about how much money we spend on simple and often independent games via mobile app stores instead of on their multi-million dollar projects. Mobile gaming is growing at a very high pace; and is expected to speed up its growth as tablets and smartphones become even smarter. The advancement of the mobile platforms has opened a new era of simple gaming and video streaming.

Different devices and operating systems are better than others at supporting different kinds of games. There are hundreds of thousand games on the Android Market and Apple’s App Store combined, that are growing as more and more people play their games on mobile devices instead of the regular Windows, MAC or desktop Linux.

Android has lots of games that are usually aimed at smartphones, but some are adapted to work well on tablets also. Such games have been enhanced with a better 3D graphics experience and can be equally enjoyed on larger screens. Here are a few examples.

Angry Birds: Angry Birds is an extremely habit-forming game that you probably know of already; it’s available for both Android and iOS. It has very good physics and an enticing backdrop of angry birds and thieving swine. The game is simply great fun and scales well to larger tablet screens.

RipTide GP: This game is takes you surfing in the deep waters with an excellent 3D experience on Tegra 2-based devices. It has integrated soft buttons on the screen to control the game.

Galaxy on Fire 2: Motorola is exhibiting this game in their Xoom product demos as an excellent application which shows the device’s 3D graphics capabilities. It also offers great game controls and other features. There are zoom-in and zoom-out qualities in the games which makes it a pleasurable visual experience. Backgrounds and all other stuffs involved in this game have very natural look and feel and is exciting to play with. 3D space travel is always fun.

Samurai Vengeance-II: A very nice-looking and feature rich game with good visual effects that makes this game a furious experience. The game controls very easy and the 3D visuals on the touch screen provide real-looking shadows. The impacts of the swords and body movements of the players are very realistic.

Zen Pin Ball: An enhanced version of this game has been placed in the market for android tablets. This is a fun game with some added 3D visual effects for the ball and refinements of the graphics. The soft controls also contribute to a great playing experience.

Spaghetti Marshmallows: A fun mind game based on making a structure from spaghetti and marshmallows in such a fashion that the structure does not break by its own weight of the structure itself.  This is a highly addictive game that works well on Android tablets.