There seems to be a serious gamer contingent in the Cake programmer community. There is actually a page on this site dedicated to some cosmic online RPG that I'd never heard of until I stumbled across it by accident while searching for something else (sounded cool but the name is eluding me now).
Fact is us home audio nerds have to really thank the PC gamer community for keeping the ultra high spec desktop components available at reasonable prices. They seem to be the majority of folks dropping enough cash on high end MOBOs and other parts to keep the desktops alive. If it were up to the average Joe Schmoe we'd all be recording on our phones by now.
When I built my system all my research pretty much led me to gaming stuff and if you look at companies like ADK they also build gaming systems (and that's probably where most of their cash comes from).