I am not a big game player but sometimes my wife is buried in facebook (sometimes playing facebook games

) and at that point I will play my own game. So we sit
together on the sofa playing our own indvidual games. It does work, a bit like watching tv together. Or reading together. And as long as it isn't excessive then its good and still counts as quality time together. I cant stand Cityville etc etc but she enjoys it and that doesn't get in the way of us being together.
I know that I am going to get bombarded with derision but we find the ipad quite handy under the circumstances. We have an ipad and a laptop so that being together on the sofa playing games simultaneously does indeed work quite well. It's not as if we are sitting side by side with two desktops between us, or worse than that, in seperate rooms. And we can still dip in and out of any tv program that we might want to