10 Well-Known Gaming 'Facts' That Are Actually Bulls**t

10. There Are More Male Gamers Than Female

Forever painted as a 'boys club' both from within certain specific game's fan-groups and plenty of lazy journalists, across the last few years especially you could feel the paradigm shift as more female gamers made themselves known - getting stuck into everything from Call of Duty to Mass Effect, stat-crunching RPGs and gore-soaked escapist-dreams like Mortal Kombat to boot. Basically, your average gamer is no longer a basement-dwelling daylight-dodger forever in service of hot pockets and acne cream, a stat proven by the Internet Advertising Bureau as they uncovered that around 52% of all gamers are female - imagine that! Of course if you want to get super granular about it, 'gamers' in this case factor in those who play on mobiles and tablets; so Farmville, Candy Crush, Clash of Clans etc. are what's potentially propping that stat up (something that'll make old school gamers balk up their Rupees). Still, the survey was open to the entire British populace on both sides of the gender-fence, and in a pretty cool turn of events, females trumped the fellas overall, regardless of any game of choice.