Post edited 12:33 – Dec 14th 2011 by Adamski UK

Here's the article thats referred to:

http://www.economist.com/node/21541409

I love the opening of the article…

OLD stereotypes die hard. Picture a video-game player and you will likely imagine a teenage boy, by himself, compulsively hammering away at a game involving rayguns and aliens that splatter when blasted. Ten years ago—an aeon in gaming time—that might have borne some relation to reality.

But today a gamer is as likely to be a middle-aged commuter playing “Angry Birds” on her smartphone. In America, the biggest market, the average game-player is 37 years old. Two-fifths are female. Even teenagers with imaginary rayguns are more likely to be playing “Halo” with their friends than solo.

Fucking 'rayguns' and 'Angry Birds'…boils my piss.