<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6139c866-945f-44a9-a505-5b4eda7d72db/44BC5FFE-232E-4E8A-8B80-B6261775286A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gameplanet.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/"><H1 class="articleTitle">Girls play games, too, explains former Frag Doll 'Jinx'</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/"><DIV class="text">As a founding member of the American all-female professional gaming team, The Frag Dolls, Ashley Jenkins was the poster girl for girl gamers, travelling the world playing Halo 2, Ghost Recon and Call of Duty. Most people knew her by the online name, Jinx – and she loved every minute of the four years she was part of the team. Now, Jenkins, who moved from San Francisco to Sydney, works for Xbox.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/"><P>“My brother and sister and I got a Nintendo for Christmas and it was no time before I was scheming for extra turns. I didn’t really think of it as gaming at first. It was just something that you did for fun.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.gameplanet.co.nz/img/89112157-6814-4FE7-8220-A57E96FC8D8F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.gameplanet.co.nz/img/766C3275-BB44-458F-8461-3F2BBC3C79E6" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.gameplanet.co.nz/img/7192E294-92B5-4F06-924A-CC6E05697129" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/"><P>The Frag Dolls were heavily focussed on first-person shooter games and Jenkins said that, while she wasn’t quite driving a Ferrari, being a professional gamer opened a lot of doors for her. It sounds like a dream job, but playing video games professionally takes a “serious amount of self discipline”.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/"><DIV class="brc content"> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172566" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172566/#i"><IMG height="112" width="150" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172566.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172567" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172567/#i"><IMG height="99" width="150" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172567.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172568" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172568/#i"><IMG height="120" width="150" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172568.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172569" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172569/#i"><IMG height="150" width="99" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172569.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172570" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172570/#i"><IMG height="150" width="102" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172570.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172571" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172571/#i"><IMG height="150" width="101" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172571.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172572" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172572/#i"><IMG height="150" width="143" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172572.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172573" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172573/#i"><IMG height="150" width="107" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172573.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="galleryImageTile"><A rel="1172574" rev="gallery_article133867" href="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/galleries/133867.20090922.Girls-play-games-too-explains-former-Frag-Doll-Jinx/image1172574/#i"><IMG height="111" width="150" class="galleryImageTile" title="" alt="Image" src="http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/art/tile/1172574.jpg" /></A></DIV> <DIV class="clearer zilch"> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/44BC5FFE-232E-4E8A-8B80-B6261775286A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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