Tag Archive for: Entertainment Software Association

Increase in females equalizes gaming


The image of the typical gamer has been something of a caricature: a rambunctious teenage male mashing buttons with his friends or a post-college mama’s boy cooped up in his parents’ basement. Most of us acknowledge these stereotypes as funny exaggerations, but the crux of their humor lies in a key assumption — gamers are […]

Gaming industry burgeons as fruitful occupational outlet


When most college students think of video games, they probably picture those sedentary Saturdays spent huddled around the TV, hunched over colorful, button-mashed controllers. This image is something we can all relate to, and it’s the generic way video games fit into our lives: as stress-relievers, social experiments and solitary hobbies. But for a handful […]