The most popular form of entertainment

 Video Games Are Officially The World's Most Popular Form Of Entertainment. Oh, how times have changed. It's been close for a while, but according to a new report by Game Debate, gaming has finally broken through and become the most popular form of entertainment in the world.

Gaming has certainly come a long way in the past twenty years or so. It’s becoming more and more acceptable to identify as a “gamer”, a phrase that might have garnered many an odd look in the past. But despite its widespread popularity, gaming certainly doesn’t feel as popular as mainstream movies or TV shows.

This might be due to the fact that movies and TV shows are inherently social events which require people to gather around at a specific time in order to catch their favorite show or piece of cinema. Or, it may just be that those who are most invested in gaming have not yet aged out previous generations to a degree that gaming begins to feel like anything more than an underground hobby.

But unless market trends change significantly in the next few years and the gaming hobby falls off the map completely for one reason or another, it looks like this new hierarchy of entertainment mediums is here to stay.