<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/24b23d48-7e1e-4862-9e3f-d8d0bbe39c3a/5DD2702C-B653-4D60-AF30-36688CCC3615/" 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.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164113" href="http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164113" style="font-size: 11px;">www.1up.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164113"><H2>Study: Men Ashamed of Casual Gaming<BR /></H2></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.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164113"><SPAN class="bodybold">I play Bejeweled. Don't judge me!<BR /></SPAN></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.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164113"> The term "hardcore" gets thrown around a lot lately, a word that elicits images of fragging, followed by manly grunting and possibly firing power tools into the air in celebration.<P> A new study reported by <A target="_blank" href="http://www.news.com/Men-also-avid-players-of-casual-video-games-study/2100-1043_3-6215889.html ">Reuters</A> shows that men are just as likely to play casual games (equality now!) but less likely to admit it (huh?). The study comes from the <SPAN class="bodybold">Casual Games Association</SPAN>, and showed that though women <I>buy</I> 3/4 of the casual games on the market, the play of them is split down the middle among the sexes. This mean there's a lot of male moochers out there.</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.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164113"> The study claims that it's the male propensity towards "hardcore" games that makes them shy from buying -- or admitting they enjoy -- a simple game with shiny colored balls that pop.</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/5DD2702C-B653-4D60-AF30-36688CCC3615/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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