With the year’s end dwindling down, every website in the hood are collecting the “Best of” and the “Most awesome” award. I, strangely, am not on any of those list. But NextGen has the Top 10 Blunders of 2007, with such hits as “Game Over Gerstmann” at number four and “Surprise! Zombies” at number seven. Number one, you ask? The Red Rings of the Death!

With a year’s headstart and exclusive hits like Gears of War, Microsoft started 2007 looking every bit the confident market leader they’d longed to be since 2001. Beneath that sanguine exterior, however, lurked a horrible, horrible truth: “Things break.”

No argument here. Everyone on the EatSleepGame staff has suffered the Red Rings, and I know for a fact that 95% of my friends have. Sure, you can send it in, but who the fuck wants to do that? The real problem will be when Microsoft’s next console ships, and everyone acts like it’ll explode any moment.

[via NextGen]

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