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IGN has the stupidest gaming related feature ever. A "Top 99" list compiled by readers. Sounds harmless right?

Here's how they did it. IGN has a huge database of game titles from past and present, and members can add them to their game collection and, if they choose, submit a reader review or score. The morons simply counted the games with the most and highest ratings, took a few quips from the forums and made a feature.

The result? You've got Starcraft somewhere in the 70's, while God of War, a game not even out for a month as number 6. Resident Evil 4 is your number 1, and there's some strange game called SNK VS Capcom Match of the Millenium, which doesn't exist (geek fact: If you must know, there is a game called CapcomVS SNK Match of the Millenium, and yes the name switching does matter, since there is an entirely different game called SNK VS Capcom: SVC Chaos).

An absolute waste of keystrokes and mouse clicks. I'm not even going to bother linking to it.

So I just found out that one of my Dreamcast memory cards went on the fritz. Not only was a huge chink of memory seemingly missing, but so were a few saves. After deleting some unecessary stuff, swapping files between my two cards and a total purge of the offending device's memory I got the space back and organized the remaining saves for the future. The only major loss was my Marvel VS Capcom 2 save, in which I had unlocked all of the 52 fighters availible. Guess its back to square one.