BBC News put up a feature today called "At-a-Glance: State of Play." The survey was designed to find out how games fit into people's everyday lives. Some of the results are after the jump, for more click over. The survey was only concerned with UK gamers, so these aren't worldwide figures.

At-a-Glance: State of Play [BBC News]

They found roughly 59% of people ages 6-65 are gamers.

Forty-eight percent of gamers were women and 100% of the survey group between the ages of six and ten were gamers.

Gamers (for the survey) were defined as "someone who has played video games in the last six months on any platform, including interactive TV (iTV)."

The graph at the right shows the percentage of gamers changing over age groups. Fifty-one percent of people in the 36-50 group play games, surprising.

The average gamer is 28 years old.

There are almost as many women gaming as there are men, at each of the age group thresholds.

Puzzler/quiz type games were the most played, with 63% of the surveyed playing them. The least popular, surprisingly enough, were multiplayer online games, with just eight percent of people playing.

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