According to a survey by Pew Research, 40 percent of the adults report that their home contains a videogame console: 42 percent of women and 37 percent of men.

The survey confirms the general consensus that videogame popularity has substantially grown among females in the West. The industry's marketing scope has also shifted noticeably towards the trend, with majority of current generation videogames now containing gender diversity. The Pew Research reports that game console ownership overall in the US remains where it was back in 2010, but this is expected to change over the course of the next few years as the videogaming industry gradually prioritizes consoles over PC gaming.

PC owners were apparently not polled in the study, notably. In entirely unrelated news, the Candy Crush empire was sold for $5.9bn in cash. Pictured above is D. Fox, said to be Britain's "oldest gamer."