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Gaming's 10 Biggest Scandals of All-time

GamePolitics counted down its list of Gaming's 10 Biggest Scandals of All-time. Here's a sample:
"Xbox 360 Red Rings of Death (2007) - Microsoft hid the extent of the 360's hardware failures for far too long; even now they won't say what caused the failures or how widespread the problem is, but it must be a lot because MS has set aside a billion dollars to deal with it."

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Bill Gates - 898 days 3 hours ago

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Xbox 3Fixme "Red Ring of Death" is not a "Scandal".

IT'S A FACT!!!

HAHHAHHAHHHAHAHA

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ALI G - 898 days 2 hours ago

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another fact : Ken Kutaragi got sacked - sloooooooooowly

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MK_Red - 898 days 2 hours ago

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IMO, Its really stupid that they didnt put Mortal Kombat in there. I mean how can they deny the maddness surrounding MK1 and MK2's release, both in US and Europe.

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id dot entity - 897 days 21 hours ago

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Carmageddon anyone?

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jromao - 898 days 2 hours ago

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3 - MS hiding problems ??

Never !!!, they are just "honest" as usual about x360 (same politics they use where they put their feets).

The only way to fix the problem is shipping one PS3 to everyone who bought the 360.

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ALI G - 898 days 1 hour ago

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3.1 - or maybe

if sony stop backing PS3 and start only manufacturing xbox360.

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Scrooge - 898 days 1 hour ago

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Dude, we know the 360 has problems. MS is fixing it for free, no harm no foul. Do we have to keep hearing this crap over and over? Let's move on! This site turned into a console war bashing fanboy site so fast, I don't think I can visit here anymore. It seems like nobody is neutral and has to bash one console or the other.

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Captain Tuttle - 897 days 23 hours ago

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4.1 - Man...

I've been coming here for AT LEAST a year and it's always been like that. Were you around before the bubble system was implemented? Holy Crap! Talk about chaos. It was funny as hell too but got way out of hand. It's much better now. I remember stories with 900 or so comments.

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Kigmal - 898 days ago

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5 - So wait ...

They put the Xbox 360 RRoD problem, but they don't put the PS2 Disc Read Errors back when PS2 was launching? That was just as bad and people had to rebuy PS2's, they never got a 3 year warranty. How amusing.

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sandip787 - 897 days 23 hours ago

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dude i dont know when u joined but this site has always been like this.
how can MK not be on there, and 25 to life is there?
but yeh a real eye opener to how much games actually effect the non gaming world.

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Coffin87 - 897 days 19 hours ago

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this is a great list.
it shows how people are afraid of what is new and seems confusing.

poor mankind.

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ernande - 897 days 16 hours ago

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Most of these are way too current to go on the list of "all-time" gaming scandals.

Night Trap was such a funny game. I bought it when I was 12 years old and didn't think there was anything violent about it (unless you count bad acting as a violent act). It's hard to believe it caused such a stir in Washington and is responsible for game ratings today. There was one scene where a guy in a ski mask had some goofy claw device that looked like it came from Toys R Us - the plastic claw grabbed a girl in her pajamas by the neck and a container filled with pink liquid. Pretty tame by today's standards.

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