64% of Online Gamers Are Female

According to a report discussed on 1up, a new study by the Nielsen folks finds that more than half of the 117 Million U.S. online gamers are women. From the article: "The study's announcement release doesn't break down what games they're playing, though we expect sites like pogo.com, which feature a multitude of Flash-based games are rather high on the list. Even more surprising is how many older gamers are playing. While the teenage market dominates in numbers, the study says more than 15 million gamers, about 8%, are actually at least 45 years old."

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Re:well...

[Grey Ninja]

Actually, talking about stuff like that would be a pretty good technique for convincing straight women to experiment a little. You have to start slow, and talk about mundane, boring, dreadful things at first. But after a few weeks/months, you can get a little more flirty, as women grow more comfortable with eachother. Then you can start experimenting after that.

Or so I'm told. ;)

Re:well...

[TheRaven64]

Most of those games are Flash or Java. They don't tax the GPU much, but my CPU load shoots to 100% as soon as I load one.

It seems that Flash is even multi-threaded these days. It can max out both cores on a Core Duo...