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Women Over 40 Biggest Online Gamers

Posted by simoniker on from the lies-and-damned-statistics dept.

Ooby writes "MSNBC and Reuters are reporting that women over 40 are the biggest online gamers, according to a study conducted by AOL. What's even more interesting than being outnumbered by middle aged and older women is this: 'More than a quarter of those women, the survey found, play their favorite games between midnight and 5 a.m. Women in the poll tended to favor word and puzzle games.' I thought that was prime time for FPS kids."

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  1. FIRST!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post

  2. Re:No doubt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't forget that she usually drinks a diet coke. Who needs those extra calories with 18 twinkies for breakfast

  3. Re:No doubt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    64oz diet coke, at that.

  4. Re:No doubt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If penny arcade wasn't crapping out at the moment, I'd post that 'motherfucker loves cheetos' strip. But alas.

  5. Lots of housewives playing daytime Quake 3 Arena by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All talking with each other about what their husbands are going to do. That's a negative. But OTOH they are easy to frag.

  6. Re:XBox rules!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post? I think not!

    Keep your American XBox because no one outside of America is buying that crap. Like an American Car, the XBox is junk.

  7. My statistic by Tom7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd say that humans over 0 are the biggest online gamers.

  8. Re:XBox rules!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pfft. Your XBox is such a giant piece of crap, you can't even get first failed it.