Understanding gamers: why your kids play videogames
It’s no secret that there can often be something of a disconnect between today’s parents and their gamer children. Where the younger generation has essentially grown up with controllers in their hands, unable to conceive of a time without videogames, the parents of today may have partially or totally missed the boat on what makes games so alluring to their kids. They may remember passing the time at arcades every now and again — they may be fleetingly familiar with the sensation playing the odd arcade title, of chasing the high score — but the urges that drive their children to spend sixty dollars and dozens of hours on a single game are totally alien to them....