For you two I have a question. Do you think it's because you're some of the first parents from the video game age, or because you're also tech/geek adults, that you play video games so often with your children?

A little of both.

The reasons I play video games with my daughter are:

a) We both like video games.

b) It's a way we can spend time together doing something in common as a family. The games have reached a point where they are realistic enough to interest even the non-gamers. My wife watches Rachel and I play with almost the same level of rapt attention as she gives a good movie.

c) She impresses me with her intelligence, skill, and problem-solving abilities.

d) It is another modernized extension of watching movies with your child or reading with your child.

And no one gets to tell me that video games will rot her brain and that we should read with her instead. She is a voracious reader on her own and we also still read to her sometimes (although at 9 she's getting a little old for us reading to her).