New Christmas Classic: Holiday gaming surge results in litigation

It was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even the three friends who’d been waiting for Halo 3’s matchmaker to find a game for like, two %#$ing hours.

Were you one of the thousands, possibly millions of gamers who had their precious holiday break defecated upon by what is widely regarded as one of the most heinous holiday !&*@ ups in the entire history of human endeavor? Me too. (Caveat: by ‘widely’ I mean myself, my brother and his buddy Dylan, but we are unanimous in our agreement, which counts for something, I think).

And we were not alone in our frustrations during our most recent happy-Jesus-birthday-time. Oh no, not alone at all. The Texans! Keith Kay, Orlando Perez and Shannon Smith were with us on that cold winter night. They were with us in spirit as they cursed Bill Gates and swore at the television and threw controllers at their pets as matchmaking failed time and time again. The three Texans, as a matter of fact, swore so many times that they accidentally summoned a lawyer from the depths of the underworld and he agreed to file a class action lawsuit on their behalf.

News of the lawsuit tore through the blogosphere with a speed paralleling that of light. MTV got a chance to speak with the lawyer because they’ve pretty much given up on music and…