Video Games Grow Up: Adults and Video Games

The CS Monitor has a great blog post called, Video Games Grow Up. It’s about the recent Pew Internet Adults and video games Memo. The eight and a half page memo has a lot of interesting information if you’ve ever been curious about some of the data behind video games and who is playing them the most.

According to the Pew report on video games:

Over half of American adults play video games, and four out of five young adults play Among adults, computers are the most popular gaming device, but among young adults gaming consoles are preferred. Virtual worlds only draw a small crowd of players.

The blog post at CS Monitor is also informative, looking at the different areas that are seeing video games used more including the military, sports, and politics.

Other information from the report:

Some 53% of American adults age 18 and older play video games,1 and about one in five adults
(21%) play everyday or almost everyday. While the number of video gamers among adults is
substantial, it is still well under the number of teens who play. Fully 97% of teens play video
games.

Overall, men (55%) are slightly more likely than women (50%), and urbanites (56%) are a bit
more likely than rural-dwellers (47%) to play any kind of digital game. There is no significant
difference in game playing across income groups or between suburbanites and adults from other
locales.

About the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

The Pew Internet Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Pew Internet Project explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project is nonpartisan and takes no position on policy issues. Support for the project is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.