Do You Live In the Biggest Video Gaming City In the U.S.?

Huntington, New Yorkers spend more than four times the average amount of video games, according to a recent study by credit card spending tracker Bundle.

The study looked at spending at GameStop, EB Games and Steam from July 2010 to June 2011 for the top 100 cities in the U.S. by population. Bundle based their study on aggregated, anonymized spending data from 20 million Visa and Mastercard customers. So that means that the results are impacted heavily by the sorts of people who have a credit card and use it for purchases regularly. But it’s still an interesting study.

Here’s the full list of the top 50 cities that spend the most on video games, check out Bundle for some other interesting facts about gamers.

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1. Huntington, New York

2. North Hempstead, New York

3. Laredo, Texas

4. Chesapeake, Virginia

5. Modesto, California

6. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

7. El Paso, Texas

8. Cincinnati, Ohio

9. Buffalo, New York

10. Virginia Beach, Virginia

11. Rochester, New York

12. Birmingham, Alabama

13. Miami, Florida

14. Honolulu, Hawaii

15. Toledo, Ohio

16. Baton Rouge, Louisiana

17. Corpus Christi, Texas

18. Plano, Texas

19. Fresno, California

20. St. Louis, Missouri

21. San Antonio, Texas

22. Wichita, Kansas

23. Montgomery, Alabama

24. Tulsa, Oklahoma

25. Hialeah, Florida

26. Riverside, California

27. Lubbock, Texas

28. San Bernardino, California

29. Fort Worth, Texas

30. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

31. Fort Wayne, Indiana

32. Bakersfield, California

33. Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky

34. Chula Vista, California

35. Albuquerque, New Mexico

36. Akron, Ohio

37. Jacksonville, Florida

38. Greensboro, North Carolina

39. Tucson, Arizona

40. Raleigh, North Carolina

41. Stockton, California

42. Arlington, Texas

43. Durham, North Carolina

44. Long Beach, California

45. Chandler, Arizona

46. Lincoln, Nebraska

47. Anchorage, Alaska

48. New York, New York

49. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

50. Aurora, Colorado

Game-obsessed: U.S. cities that spend the most on video games

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