Heard the latest? "Video games aren't for kids anymore" says Reuters. Had no idea! Oh yes, just look at this Nielsen/Net Ratings data:

• 37 percent of American adults who go online own a game console.
• 16 percent own a portable gaming device.
• 71 percent of those adults are married.
• 66 percent of them have one or more children.

Not only adults, but adults who have had SEX. With other people. And can prove it. Incredible. What is the reason for this, pundits? Says Nielsen's Carolyn Creekmore:

As game consoles have become increasingly sophisticated, families have incorporated them into their centralized home media centers, which include the television, digital recording device, digital music player and the PC.

Huh. And here we are thinking that video games were just played by teenagers in their basement. Brian Ashcraft

Video Games Grown Up. Finally! [Reuters]

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