We Are All Gamers

One of the BBC's 'At-A-Glance' features talks about the realities of gaming in Britain, and it has some encouraging statistics for the industry's continued health. "The detailed project, called State of Play, profiled UK gamers and non-gamers from 6 to 65 and found that almost 60% played games. Of those, 48% are women and 100% of 6 to 10-year-olds play games ... The average age of the UK gamer is 28, perhaps much higher that one might expect. Unsurprisingly, those born in the 90s do not know life without games. Perhaps more unexpectedly, 51% of the 36 to 50s play games, and the figures are still rising. "

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For a certain value of "Gamer", anyway.

[iainl]

For the purposes of the study, this merely means "have played a game in the last 6 months". So bear in mind that means everyone who has launched Solitaire since May, everyone who has loaded Snake on their phone to see what it was, and so on.