My DH plays online video games in our living room with friends of ours from college almost every evening. It gives them a change to catch up on what is going on in each other's lives and have fun playing the games they played together in college. (we all live between 5-10 hours away from each other now). Because I go to bed earlier than he does, I sit on the couch and play on the message board while he "shoots people" as he says :) The other day he actually finished playing and was like uuuuh it is almost 2am ... I was SHOCKED that I had stayed up so late!!