These senior gamers who share their passion live
In the United States, nearly half of seniors regularly play video games, including people in their sixties and seventies who sometimes have a large following on Twitch and YouTube. This activity has social and cognitive benefits, reports the American edition of “The Guardian.”
Call of Duty is Michelle Statham's favorite game. Fast-paced and fast-paced, it centers around military campaigns and espionage missions inspired by historical reality. She typically spends six hours a day streaming on Twitch, commentating for her nearly 110,000 followers from her home in Washington state. She proudly describes how she plans to defeat her opponents, and shouts "Bless you" while leaping from rooftops to avoid enemy fire. When she's hit, she "respawns"—she resurrects at a checkpoint—and immediately returns to the fray.
The first-person shooter attracts mostly young male players, but Statham's Twitch callsign is TacticalGramma—a nod to the 60-year-old's two grandchildren. She has always loved video games, so much so that it has become a source of income for her (while she doesn't want to reveal her winnings, she claims to have raised "thousands of dollars" for charity), as well as a way to entertain herself, stay fit, and maintain social contact.
“Many people are surprised to see someone my age
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