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There's probably a lot of solitaire and online bridge-playing padding that, but a new NPD report says 170 million Americans play video games. The U.S. population is 304 million. More »
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Faithful Kotaku reader Beaver apparently takes marketing surveys over at something called Play Insights, which assures visitors in fine (and grayed) print "Please be assured this is a legitimate research study." More »
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Sony Computer Entertainment America is soliciting PlayStation fan opinion on what would make for the "perfect" God of War III Collector's Edition, including the option to get the PlayStation 2 entries on Blu-ray disc. More »
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Valve announced today that it was relaunching its hardware survey, publishing its findings for the month of November and giving the public a look at the Steam-enabled PC gaming hardware landscape. More »
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People drop out of college for all kinds of reasons - relationships, drugs, joining a band, deciding to follow The Dead around in a camper van.. the list is long and varied. More »
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As I mentioned in my tale of my first MMO, I'm about as solitary gamer as one can be. I was interested in the last of a set of articles detailing the findings of the DGD2 gamer survey, this one on the major motivational differences between gamers who prefer multiplayer games versus those of us who cling to single player experiences: More »
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Next time you're on a multiplayer server, you might want to ask everyone who's a Canadian, and then ask who among them are dudes. Because according to a Microsoft survey, every fifth one of them (in the long run) has gamed in the nude, and might be doing so now. More »
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Prestigious British driving school BSM recently took a survey of 1,000 drivers between the ages of 16-24 regarding how their driving habits are affected by video games, and the results showed that 27% admitted to taking more risks on the road after playing a racing game, with a quarter saying they pretend they are actually in the video game when they drive. A BSM road safety consultant said this presented an indisputable link between gaming and dangerous driving. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=240995&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're reading this, you're likely a heavy gamer. I'm not calling you fat. But according to the NPD Group, who just did a study amongst 16,670 participants, there's a 45% chance you are between the ages of six and seventeen. In other words, someone I really shouldn't be saying 'fuck' around. More »
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Gamasutra reports that according to a recent study, the elusive "casual gamer" is not as flighty a beast as previously thought: More »
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In Newsweekly, companion website to In Newsweekly, New England's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender news and entertainment weekly, has posted a story on a new survey meant specifically for GLBT gamers, or "gaymers" as the article so coyly quotates. More »
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