{"id":1012830,"date":"2026-06-08T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012830"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:55:18","slug":"us-gamers-getting-older-as-industry-reports-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/08\/us-gamers-getting-older-as-industry-reports-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"US gamers getting older as industry reports growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Video games are having a moment in the United States — but the players are getting older. <\/p>\n

The average American video game player is now 37 years old – up from 29 about two decades ago – as the industry reports activity climbing back to their highest levels since the pandemic-era boom, a new report reveals. <\/p>\n

The findings, from the Entertainment Software Association’s annual Essential Facts report, challenge enduring stereotypes about who plays games while underscoring the industry’s recovery from a post-pandemic slowdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video games are having a moment in the United States — but the players are getting older. The average American video game player is now 37 years old – up from 29 about two decades ago – as the industry reports activity climbing back to their highest levels since the pandemic-era boom, a new report reveals. The findings, from the Entertainment Software Association’s annual Essential Facts report, challenge enduring stereotypes about who plays games while underscoring the industry’s recovery from a post-pandemic slowdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012857,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012830\/revisions\/1012857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}