Are people across the UK worried about the amount of time being spent playing video games?
Should they be? I know I was. If I asked my six-year-old son to stop playing PlayStation football or a Wii adventure game the result was a mini-fit, complete with genuine tears and tantrums.
I did not get that kind of extreme reaction when I called time on cartoons on TV, playing in the garden or his favourite action toys.
In buying video games for my son I am contributing to a £3bn gaming industry in the UK. My little boy is just one of the 83% of children in the UK between five and 16 who have access to a video games console.
In our house, we have Wii, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo DS. One out of every two homes has at least one games console.
Over the past five years video gaming in its various formats has gone mainstream, shedding both its nerdy image and the idea that gamers are just children and adolescents.
Psychological devices
The average age of a female gamer is now 35, thanks mainly to popular social network platforms such as Facebook and mobile-phone friendly applications like the 'addictive' Angry Birds that counts Prime Minister David Cameron among its fans.