{"id":114,"date":"2008-08-18T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-08-18T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T12:25:25","slug":"who-is-the-typical-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/who-is-the-typical-gamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the typical gamer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theesa.com\/facts\/pdfs\/ESA_EF_2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> recently published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/theesa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Software Association<\/a> provides some interesting facts about the American gaming industry. According to this report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the average age of a gamer is 35 years;<\/li>\n<li>26% of gamers are over the age of 50;<\/li>\n<li>40% of gamers are female;<\/li>\n<li>59% of gamers play games with other people in person;<\/li>\n<li>the best selling genres of computer game (as opposed to video game) in 2007 were strategy (33.9%) and role playing (18.8%), followed by shooters (11.6%) and adventure games (5.0%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey recently published by the Entertainment Software Association provides some interesting facts about the American gaming industry. According to this report: the average age of a gamer is 35 years; 26% of gamers are over the age of&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/who-is-the-typical-gamer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-facts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-1Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}