10 Shocking

facts about

Gaming!

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Shock Level: 1 voltConsumers spent $21.53 billion on video games, hardware and accessories in 2013 alone.

Shock Level: 2 voltsAs a planet, we spend 30 billion hours playing games!!

Shock Level: 3 voltsThe average game player is 31 years old and has been playing games for 14 years!

Shock Level: 4 voltsThe average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 35 years old.

Shock Level: 5 volts48% of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 are more than double the number of boys age 18 or younger.

Shock Level: 6 voltsBrazil has a 120% tax on video games because of an old law that classifies all games as gambling.Ouch!

Shock Level: 7 volts44% of gamers are playing on mobile and 33% are playing on wireless devices.

Shock Level: 8 voltsRockstar Games paid to receive negative reviews for Grand Theft Auto.

Shock Level: Over 9000!Homefront, a war game in 2011, successfully predicted both the year of Kim Jong Il’s death and North Korea’s nuclear test. Freaky!

Shock Level: Max!!The crystal structure of an AIDS virus was decoded with the help of an online game Foldit in 10 days. This had stumped scientists for over 15 years!