It just hasn't been a good two weeks to be a gamer. Last week, if we wanted to buy used games, we were told we were no better than common thieves. This week, we find out that if we want to continue to play games on Xbox Live, we're going to have to fork over an extra $10 a year. Gaming as a subculture is in trouble. Gamers for years have been pleading with society to take them seriously, but that serious nature comes at a steep cost - the cost of doing business.

I never anticipated sinking low enough to jump into the gender war between idiot female gamers and prepubescent man-children, but so help me God, when one encounters this shit enough times, biting ones tongue becomes harder than standing on a block of ice with broken feet and crutches while fighting sexually frustrated grizzly bears.  These are the 5 unfailing phenomena, one of which I encounter at least once (If I'm lucky) for every 3 hours that I play a MMORPG or my beloved Team Fortress 2.

If you're anything like me, you've been patiently waiting for what seems like an eternity for the Battlefield Bad Company 2 SPECACT pack to release on PS3. You're also probably sitting on small nation's worth of Dr. Pepper caps with promotional codes to use for said BFBC2 pack. Finally, our time has come and the pack has been released. We've only had to wait an extra couple of weeks then our 360 brethren, another tradition most PS3 players have gotten used to, but at least we'll all be able to revel in our sweet juicy justice of (almost free) DLC...at least, one would think.

With all of these games coming out on every platform these days, I thought I would be able to find some more information about this topic.  A Wikipedia page or at the least a heated forum discussion ending in an argument about the awesomeness of Runescape.  I can’t find a damn thing even mentioning something that touches cross platform licensing for games.  Maybe I’m not searching for the right topics, or maybe this concept is newer than I thought, but probably not. I mean, I’m just some random internet blog rambling douche bag.

Sorry for the lull everybody, winter breaks are productivity killers. Without further delay, we present the final list of gamers we love to hate.

We've all played with them. They exist out there and there's nothing that can be done to stop them. Some are funny, some are tragic and then there are those that make you sad to know that we share a gene pool. Grunge Gamer presents part one of the most loathsome multiplayer gamers.

Fuck you. Specifically the one I got into a shouting match with on Saturday night, fuck you.

You think you're cool because you know a map exploit in Call of Duty to get underneath the map and kill anybody who has the misfortune of playing? You're a cocksucker and deserve to be banned for life from Xbox Live.

I'm sure you're all a bit perplexed by the title and I'll do my best to try to explain.

I play a lot of games online, mostly FPS and these days it's relatively limited to console action save for some TF2 action here and there on my PC. Like the majority of people out there I play the Call of Duty franchise on my 360 and a little Killzone 2 on the PS3. Just to be clear, this is directed at the CoD crowd. Now that the formalities are out of the way, let's get to the good stuff.

I'm sure there are a plethora of rants out there that already complain about the Wii since its release. There is a reason that the controller dominates most of console gaming's history. That's because it works. Damn well I might add.Controllers give you a sense of...well, control. You can feel a controller. You move the joystick slightly and you walk; push it to the edge and you run. It's a simple concept and it works. The Wiimote changed that.