From timesonline.co.uk:

Yet it is a scene being created in homes up and down the country this weekend, giving the lie to the claim that harmonious family life in modern Britain has all but disappeared. There may be no piano for a singalong, and the Monopoly board is gathering dust in a corner. Instead, the 21st-century family is bonding around a computer game.

These days home entertainment involves racing against one another in cartoon go-karts, a father taking on his son in a virtual game of tennis, or a mother taking the same exercise class as her daughter. Even grandparents join in. Computer games have become the modern family’s shared experience and the console is the centrepiece of a happy home.

Computer games will outsell music and video in Britain for the first time this year, a report released this week says. This surge for games has been fuelled largely by the sale of family-friendly games such as Wii Sports and Mario Kart .

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