PSP Features

We love videogames.

That said, there will be no further mention of why gaming doesn't suck this week. Instead of our usual chipper attitudes, we'll be taking a focused look at the shallow, lazy and dull parts of gaming we can't stand, like these videos from last year's Week of Hate. Get ready for a week of furious, loud and loathsome articles, culminating on Friday in absolutely nothing but more of this:

Black Friday is probably the best holiday of the year. If you’re like us, you’re scoping out sweet deals for yourselves (or if you’re a good person, for your brethren). It’s almost a point of pride waiting in line at 4am just so you can snatch up cheap DVDs, games and other assorted electronics from your favorite retailer (extra points for wrestling something away from an older person).

The bright colors and delirious sounds of cutesy games often gloss over ultraviolent gameplay. The sadistic deaths visited upon characters in these kiddie games are always hidden behind candy and rainbows. But violence without gore is like a cheeseburger without cheese. Sanitizing violence to make it “kid-friendly” hurts society more than it helps, and teaches unrealistic life lessons. We want to set things right, so we’ve

We hate war. All this bickering about exclusives and online support and which console has a more phallic controller, well, it makes us sick. There’s already more than enough war in the world, and definitely not enough love, sweet love.

In the spirit of peacemaking, we’ve envisioned a game industry filled with love, and we’re sharing it with you in the only way we know how - with tasteless illustrations by resident art

Is there anything better than a bag of popcorn, a cushy sofa on which to recline and an iPhone or iPod Touch loaded with games? Well yeah, there is, especially considering what popcorn fingers can do to a touchscreen. But when you’re on a bus on your way to work, being able to punch up a bloody gorefest like Alive 4-ever or kick it through the uprights in a football sim does help while away the commute time.

Imagine the room you’re in spiraling inward as soothing celesta music transports you to another time and place. You’re in LA; it’s 2006 and you’ve just walked onto the E3 show floor. Everyone is buzzing about the Wii and the DS Lite. Jokes about the PS3’s $600 pricetag are circulating, but anticipation of Sony’s powerhouse is hardly damaged. Flashing lights and beautiful women accompany lavish displays of

If you’re so sick of hearing about it, why are you writing about it, GamesRadar? Huh? HUH? Because we enjoy bitching as much as the next person, that’s why, and if complaining about bitching by bitching makes us hypocrites, then we don’t want to be crites.

We’ve written about all of this stuff, sometimes seriously, but usually with a side of snark fin soup, which is how we maintain our nonchalant demeanor. This flippant attitude puts us in a Plexiglas house – it don’t break, but our stones sometimes bounce back and hit us in the groins. Our iron-cupped privates can handle that, so take this, everyone, and us – we’re tired of hearing your, and our, vapid blabbering!