Players team up to fight a monster in the online role-playing game EverQuest II.Credit: Sony Online Entertainment
From Live Science:
Drop those stereotypes about people who play online role-playing games — chances are they're more physically fit than the average American.
That's just one of several new survey findings that explode the popular image of video gamers as socially awkward, overweight teenage males. Or at least, researchers have now found this among players of EverQuest II, an online fantasy game centered on group quests and other social activities.
"Games have pretty much been on the defensive for the past 20 years by being attacked as unhealthy and culturally destructive," said Dmitri Williams, a communications researcher at the University of Southern California. "That's been changing in the past few years, but it's still the prevailing wisdom."
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My Comment: I am in my late forties .... and .... I am guilty as charged.
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