If I play video games does it mean that I am part of a subculture?

For this blog post, I decided to explore whether or not playing video games means we are part of the video gamer subculture?
I decided to look into the video gamers that I know and see in NU-Q.
A lot of my friends at NU-Q play video games, not at a regular level though, their love and commitment to video games reaches such a high level, that they buy all types of games ranging from "Mario cart games" to "Assassin Creed" on all types of gaming technologies such as PS3, Game Cube, PC, Wii etc...

 NU-Q students even created a club called Just Play to share their love of games with the rest of the student body.


In sociology, subculture is defined as a smaller group within a larger group that can be differentiated by some unique aspects of its behavior, such as clothing styles, linguistic usage, beliefs and values. A lot of the gamers I know wear clothes that have games characters drawn on them, such as Mario, Zelda, and even Pokemon.
Although their commitment to games is large, it is not as large as the vampire gamers that we studied in class, where they would actually re-act the game, and talk and actually change their looks to fit their favorite game.

A performance is the execution or accomplishment of work, acts or feats, and it is an action or proceeding of an unusual or spectacular kind. Practice is the actual application or use of an idea, concept, belief or method. It was quite a performance to see them play and get so into the game, one would even get afraid and stress out if they are close to "death", close to loosing the round. 

I believe the actions of the video gamers I hanged around with, are defined by the concept of dramaturgy. They get so into the game that they yell, and even get pissed if they loose, and when playing with one of the students, she kept wanting rematches until she redeemed herself.