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2. GTA 4 DLC missing Microsoft's promised Christmas release

GTA 4 fans were looking forward to a DLC filled Christmas, desperate for some new content after finishing April's game of the year contender, but things didn't go quite according to plan. After Microsoft insisted the new content would be out in time for the holidays, fans began carving MS Points into their Christmas lists in anticipation. But as Christmas approached and Rockstar remained tight-lipped, we started to get worried. When Rockstar finally announced that The Lost and Damned would hit on February 17, 2009, we weren't especially surprised, but we were bitterly disappointed, although we imagine Microsoft might have been even more upset.

1. Nintendo's E3 conference

E3 2008 arrived with high hopes, with rumours around Nintendo's showing getting everyone hot and bothered. The Big N, if rumours were to be believed, was going to show off a string of hardcore games that would please long-time fans and prove that the company wasn't only interested in making games for the mass market. What we got was, well, the opposite of that. We sat through an embarrassing Shaun White demo in which a Nintendo exec tried to use the Wii Balance Board, we saw Reggie flail about on stage trying to demonstrate Wii Motion Plus, and we suffered musical torture when Wii Music took centre stage. So what was the big game for the hardcore? Animal Crossing for Wii - a game so similar to previous versions that voice chat was pointed as a major new feature for the series. It's because we love Nintendo so much that Nintendo's E3 conference is our biggest disappointment of 2008.

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