BREAKING NEWS: Adults Play Video Games!

Two days ago, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report that details the (apparently shocking) phenomenon that about half of American adults play videogames (53%, to be exact). Sounds about right to me, though I just skimmed through a good dozen articles from all over the net that are making it sound like this is some big news. I agree with this Forbes blogger in that it isn’t the numbers that are surprising but how surprised everyone seems to be about them (must be that other 47%). It just goes to show how little understood gaming really is outside of itself.

Really though, anyone around here surprised that there’s a lot of ‘gamers’ out there?  It’s like a ‘shocking new study’ that reveals that a good portion of the US reads books.

Gasp!