1. A video game apparatus comprising: a depth sensor configured to capture an area where a player exists and acquire depth information for each pixel of an image including a silhouette of the player; and a gesture recognition unit configured to divide the image so as to divide the silhouette of the player into a plurality of sections of the image, to calculate statistics information for each of the plurality of sections, and to recognize a gesture of the player based on the statistics information, the statistics information including an area value, which is a ratio of an area occupied by a divided part of the silhouette of the player in the corresponding section relative to an area of the corresponding section, and depth information of the divided part of the silhouette of the player in the corresponding section.