NOTE: I’M SORRY FOR THIS BEING LONG! I SEEM TO ALWAYS HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT ANYTHING I TALK ABOUT!

Someone once said, and one may believe it applies to the gaming world right now:

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own; for the children, and the children yet unborn.

It’s funny because the person who said this was not even involved with video games, and he didn’t say that when computer games existed (at least not to the common knowledge). It was Rod Serling, writer and narrator for the 1960’s TV show “The Twilight Zone” in an episode entitled “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street“. This quote was the closing narrative of that episode, and it is probably one of the best quotes to be used at many times during the history of the world. This quote now also fits the video game industry, as we have seen several stories submitted on N4G.com and posted throughout the web concerning the so called “imminent gloom and doom” of a console, just after one month in which the system sold less units in November of 2008 to the November the year before. Apparently, the people that so wanted to become the martyrs for the Playstation 3 in 2008 have been let out of their cages. Little do they know that they either have some short-term memory loss, or failure to care of showing bias, or something. Because the straw men arguments are getting old and tired, yet come with no new ideas, information, or anything to show that they actually have common sense with their stories at a rate of one or two a day, and they get even more pathetic with every passing day and article.

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Yes, 2008 has ended, and we believe that it was a complete year for gaming. The 360 and Wii did it’s usual competing, and the PS3 is making it a contest again. Portables have been getting love, as well, with games and features being added, and a new portable entering the race in the iPhone.

However, with all of these happenings in this year, we need to mention some things that weren’t that great. Edge listed the top gaming heroes of 2008, and it was an interesting list. However, with the ying, there must be a yang. The good needs to have the bad to be complete, and that is where we come in.

This is, without a doubt, the worst of the worst for this past year in our eyes. These are those that made sure we had headaches, nightmares, and laughter at what they said or did. These are the people that when they said something, we just look at them and say, “What in the HELL did you just say again?” Some of these are rather funny when you think about them, while some are so serious that no mockery is appropriate.

Yes, this is, without a doubt, the Worst People in the Gaming Year.

We’ll do this similar to Worst Persons in the Gaming World. We’ll try to list in order of how serious we think their offense is the top people for this one. We know there’ll be some disagreements, and we might forget some people (there was alot of bad as there was good this year), so we encourage that you comment below as to who you think would make this list if you were making it. We look forward to hearing some of the people you would choose.

But we recommend you read our list first. Without further adue, the Worst Person in Gaming for 2008.

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The first thing we would like to say is that we hope your holidays were joyous and full of cheer. We know ours were.

However, we give to you a few Christmas (or Hanukkah or whatever holiday you celebrate at this time)  presents of our own. We give to you our latest installment of what is already becoming a classic bit: The Worst Person in the Gaming World. As our last of this year (and the third one we have done), we think you will enjoy this one.

For this installment, there is actually an update on a few things involving a worst person nominee from a few weeks ago. And we have someone that you will never expect be on this list, and we hope you let us explain ourselves before saying anything about this weeks top pick, because it’s something we thought we needed to do, being as how we’re reaching the end of 2008, and thus, something that we didn’t think we would ever get to has finally arrived.

Before we get to it, though, a few things: 1. Our feelings about these people’s actions ARE serious, but we just love to be funny about our disdain about them, and 2. There was a few people who was wondering how Microsoft (the silver winner last week) was a “person”. First, it’s collectively a person in lawsuits (it’s reason for being there last week), and second, it can also be the worst person”S” in the gaming world. Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of those types of winners, too. We’ll adjust as we feel appropriate.

So, with that out of the way, it’s time for our latest list of nominees for “Worst Person(s) (there we go) in the Gaming World”.

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It’s time for our latest list of nominees for Worst Person In The Gaming World.

We have a lead man for a famous rock group, a gaming company, and a developer all vying for the top prize this week.

You know how we do this: By using sarcasm and humor to humiliate those that say or do dumb things within or about or on behalf of the video game industry. Although we do this out of humor, there ARE times where we cannot be funny. Fortunately, this week is NOT one of those times.

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We are pleased, or displeased, to give you a new feature that we hope is weekly: The Worst Person In The Gaming World. Yes, this is a direct play on Keith Olbermann’s famous Worst Person In The World. We are going to highlight people that said or did some stupid or disheartening stuff in the gaming world, or said things about the gaming world that insults others or intelligence, or something completely disgusting that wouldn’t be condoned in the human race.

Of course, no one is going to be safe from this hatchet (not even us), as nearly everyone involved in the game industry might end up on here. From people in the media who made idiotic, baseless stories to figureheads who shouldn’t say the things that they did say. This is a referendum and a call out on those issues. Two-faced people will get on here in a heartbeat.

Could being on this list amount to an insult at the people who get on here? Maybe not. Some of the people who get on Olbermann’s list take it in stride, especially when they KNOW what they said was a stupid thing to say. Some even take it as a badge of honor because they said something so remarkable that they got noticed by someone. Also, as always, there is usually a sense of sarcasm and us being smart-asses about everything we say, so don’t take too many of these too seriously. Just think of this as us being the evilest we can be towards some people (don’t worry, the people we do it to on here will deserve it).

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As you may recall today, 1up.com posted an article that had a snippet of an interview they did with Hiromichi Tanaka, producer of Square Enix’s MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI. Tanaka said that “Initially we were in talks with a representative from Sony [to achieve this], but it appears that that person quit.” Basically, they wanted to port the game on a Blu-Ray, but since whoever they were talking to quit, someone didn’t put up some effort into continuing talks about this issue, and thus, right at the moment, the port’s progress has stalled. No word yet on why further talks with someone else couldn’t happen (or if anyone would still be interested). However, there is something else that is to be had here. Something very interesting. That is that 1up could’ve opened the can of worms, or more appropriately, Pandora’s Box, on more than FFXI, but with the entire issue of why SE says they wanted to go multiplatform but has yet to release a single PS3 game yet.

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