Casual Gaming.  Its a phrase often used nowadays.  Casual games are usually simple games that are easy to pick up and play, and are often targetted for a mass audience (as compared to the more genre-specific console games, which often have many levels of gameplay and take a while to grasp).  The successful Nintendo Wii is possibly the latest incarnation of casual gaming, taking natural movements and translating them into on-screen actions means that anyone with very little or no gaming experience can pick up the Wii Remote (Wiimote?) and play.

Nowadays, you can find casual games on the web all over the place.  They’re embedded into blog posts, they’re created around product launches, and more recently they’ve been turned into Facebook applications.  Non-gamers are stumbling upon these games and are becoming hooked, even after only a couple of plays.

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