On Action Button Dot Net.

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5. The back of the box negligently does not caution the player about several dangerous factors regarding the game experience. We will tell you that if you are male, you might want to prepare an icepack to place on your crotch before pressing the Start Button, or risk puncturing your expensive high-definition television.-Action Button Dot Net - Gears of War 2 review

Glad we got that out of the way.

Action Button Dot Net is a game punditry website. My local TV station, ZNS Bahamas, once stated that their job was to "Inform, Educate, and Entertain". Even when AB is very, very wrong, they tend to accomplish at least two out of the three.

One comment on the site's list of their top 25 games is somewhat perplexing.

"I personally think that Actionbutton.net are the hipsters of game review. virtually everything they say is directly motivated by whether or not someone is going to think it’s either a) the gimme choice or b) the obvious anti-gimme choice.

I'm fairly certain I've encountered the "gimme choice" turn of phrase before, but I can't recall where, presumably due to having blocked it from my memory. As near as I can tell, the comment starts with how they how they rate games depending on whether or not they're popular, and rages on about how they dared to like Metal Gear Solid 3, a game I personally enjoyed immensely, and I don't even have to look at Metacritic or Gamerankings to know it cleaned up. How dare Action Button not hate something that they hate!

Reflexive hatred at the Anonymous commenter who attempt to create a catchphrase in the faint and forlon hope that it will become popular aside, AB.N does tend to have a certain self-consciousness about it. Their favorite game, ever, is one you've almost certainly never heard of.

The weird pathological zeitgeist of Bush-loving America penetrates Halo 3 in all legal orificies; the laws of the internet hold stone-faced, iron-fisted rule. - Action Button Dot Net - Halo 3 review

And that was a game they liked. Just trying to predict what they'll rate a game is a crapshoot. Call of Duty 4? 4 stars(Bioshock spoilers which indicate they completely missed the point, by the way). Metroid Prime? 4 stars. Portal? 4 stars, and a gratuitous description of the Fetish Fuel inherent in the device. (I've already had about all of that I can stand from Furaffinity, thank you very much.) God of War 2? No stars, and what basically amounts to a Stop Having Fun Guys against both GoW games. Gears of War 2? Sunshine and unicorn giggles. Dead Space? One star.

They also seem to like making masturbation references, and questioning whether a game is "not art" or not. The Call of Duty 4 review does so much hand-wringing and navel-gazing on this concept it's a wonder your monitor doesn't implode.

Bottom line; don't read them for their reviews, read them because they're frikkin' hilarious.