It’s amazing how the game community can be sometimes.  Sure, you may think that we’re just sitting around stuffing our faces with Cheetos and playing Kingdoms of Amalur all day, but, honestly, while that IS part of our work regimen (it’s a living), we also step up for fellow members of our game community.  PAX East 2012 proved that this past weekend, with over 100,000 community fans coming out to have a good time while playing games.  Now the community is stepping up again, this time for an all-day gaming streaming event.

To celebrate the launch of the T-Mobile G2x with Google, T-Mobile is sending a pair of gamers to E3 2011. The mobile phone provider is calling all gamers who have dreamed of experiencing the future of interactive entertainment while rubbing elbows with top gaming pros, industry experts and the creators of some of this year’s hottest video games.

Sprint’s EVO 4G Android smartphone by HTC is the first Android smartphone from a major carrier to get the long awaited version 2.2 (Froyo) of the Android mobile OS from Google. Among the main features of the new version is support for the Adobe Flash 10.1 mobile player giving the EVO 4G the ability to browse websites with Flash videos, animations and/or graphics. Adobe, having been shunned by Steve Jobs and Apple, has made a great effort to get cozy with Google and its Android OS using it as its launch platform for its Flash mobile initiatives.

The ESA released its annual Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry report. The 2010 survey confirmed that computer and video game play remains widespread, and that game play is an increasingly social activity. Sixty seven percent of American households play computer and video games, and 62 percent of gamers say they play with other gamers in person at least one hour per week. Family play has also grown in popularity, with nearly half of all parents (48 percent) reporting they play with their children at least once per week.

LOS ANGELES – Beating Nintendo and its upcoming Nintendo 3DS to the punch, Los Angeles-based Master Image, the second largest 3D digital cinema technology company, showed off its auto-stereoscopic 3D technology at the 3D Gaming Summit on a Hitachi Wooo mobile phone. The phone has been shipping in Japan and has already become the number one mobile phone there with a few hundred thousand devices sold since its introduction. Master Image’s auto-stereoscopic technology allows users to see 3D without the use of the typical 3D polarized or anaglyph red and blue glasses. The device will play movies and games in 3D.

With anticipation in the mobile market following Steve Jobs introduction of the iPad in San Francisco, there’s more good news for the mobile sector. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile handset shipments grew 10 percent year-over-year, to reach 324 million units in Q4 2009. This was the cell phone market’s first quarter of positive growth since Q3 2008, signaling an end to the industry’s year-long recession.