Reality Is Broken By Jane McGonigal

•        Globally, the online gamer community-including console, PC, and mobile phone gaming-counts more than 4 million gamer's in the Middle East, 10 million in Russia, 105 million in India, 10 Million in Vietnam, 10 million in Mexico, 13 million in central and south America, 15 million in Australia, 17 million in South Korea, 100 million in Europe, and 200 million in China.
  ·         More than 10 million “hard Core” gamer's in the United Kingdom, France and Germany spend at least twenty Hours a week playing.
  ·         With all of this play, we have turned digital games- for our computers, for our mobile phones, and for our home entertainment systems-into what is expected to be $68 billion industry annually by the year 2012.
  ·         Collectively, the planet is now spending more than 3 billion hours a week gaming.
  ·         Meanwhile, the scientific journal Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking reported in 2009 that 61 per cent of surveyed CEO's  CFO's, and other senior executives say they take daily game breaks at work.