Gaming advocacy group: The average gamer is 31, and most play on a console

Gamers are getting older, and more of them are women than ever before.

Industry advocacy group the Entertainment Software Association, which operates the Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow and lobbies on behalf of publishers and developers, revealed a number of facts and figures about the gaming industry today. The report finds that 59 percent of Americans play games and that the average household in the U.S. has at least two gamers.