Demographics

News

Survey Says You’ll Spend About Two Years Playing Video Games

10:30AM July 15, 2011 | Owen Good

A promotional survey taken by a video game price comparison site turns up an interesting stat: The average gamer will spend just under two years of his or her life, in combined time, playing video games. More »


In Real Life

Nielsen Survey Finds Black Gamers Spend The Most Time Playing Consoles

2:00AM April 3, 2011 | Owen Good

Nielsen, the folks who measure every single thing that is or could possibly be done with a television set, have released an analysis of gaming habits by ethnicity, finding that African-Americans game the most per day, on average, Asian-Americans the least. More »


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PlayStation Network’s Typical User Is 28, Male, Educated, Moneyed

3:40AM September 2, 2009 | Stephen Totilo

Are you the typical PlayStation Network user? It depends on whether you match the criteria shared by US PSN director of operations Eric Lempel to the publication Video Business. More »


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‘Debunking the Stereotypical Gamer Profile’

3:00AM September 7, 2008 | Maggie Greene

Via Terra Nova comes word that a new series of academic articles centered around Everquest II has just kicked off, starting with an article on ‘who plays, how much, and why’ (with a couple of ‘oddball’ gems scattered throughout the data). The results weren’t always what researchers — or the general public — would expect. While there have been other studies done in MMOs, this group was the first that took place in the game engine had the full cooperation of a company like SOE. What are they going to be looking at over the course of the study?:

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