Adults play games? I'd certainly hope so, because who else would the extremely bloody and violent (buy oh, so good) games like God of War and Gears of War be for anyways? Look, the kids who started playing games when the industry was just a baby have stuck with them and are now adults, still playing games, and introducing their own kids to game. Really, it isn't that hard of an idea to grasp researchers.

From the article:

Video games aren't just for the kids anymore. More than one in three U.S. adults who go online, or 37 percent, own a video game console and 16 percent own a portable gaming device, Nielsen//NetRatings said on Tuesday.

The majority of those console owners, 71 percent, are married, and 66 percent have at least one child in the household.

"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," said Carolyn Creekmore, senior director of media analytics, Nielsen//NetRatings.

Read the full article over at reuters.com