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Video gaming trends

Posted on 09. Dec, 2008 by Jonathan Cherry in Technology

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We’ll state right up front that we do not own a PS3. In fact, we’re still trying to clear the last stage of ‘Black’ on the PS2 on the ‘easy’ level. So hard-core gamers we are not, but happy to clobber an opponent with a vitual RPG we are.

It’s insightful therefore to get some insight as to where video gaming is heading as an industry, which in this country at least,  is still labeled as something that is done by delinquent children who don’t play outside in the sun enough and eat too many boiled sweets and smoke hash.

We were surprised that the average age of gamers in the US…is 32.

Video Gaming Trends
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The local video game landscape seems to fly pretty much under the radar. An indepth analysis like this would be very interesting, but unlikely to exist.

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One Response to “Video gaming trends”

  1. Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

    09. Dec, 2008

    32 and sans girlfriend/wife…

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