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A casual gamer is simply someone who doesn't spend all that much time playing games. Twice a week, or just half an hour at a time.

That makes it easy to define casual games. Games that are easy to pick up and play in small amounts at a time.
Games like CoD and Halo are both casual and hardcore. Casual gamers are happy with the single player, not too long, easy to pick up an continue. They won't touch online multiplayer (not much anyway) which is for the hardcore.