Ex Box: 10 Games Your Girlfriend Might Just Leave You Over

A new survey says video games are behind more breakups than you'd think. If you want to keep your girl, lose these games.

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shockedLeave it to the British "press" to unearth the most shocking scoop since...well, since Coco's ass. You ready for it? Get this: romantic relationships can suffer when the guy plays too many video games. No, really. We are shocked—nay, DEVASTATED—by this news. Whenever our girlfriend started yelling at us when we were playing Call of Duty we always just thought she was helping us test the noise-isolation power of our headphones. Turns out women don't always like it when we crane our necks to see around them while they're talking. But as a service to you, o dedicated gamer, we looked back in our archives to find a list of 10 games you'll especially need to avoid while your girl's in the house. Yeah, Black Ops is a timesink, but at least you can explain your way out of it by saying you're an reverting to the playground cops-vs-robbers dialectic as a means of recapturing your lost childhood innocence—you're never gonna live these other games down. Thank us later, while you're still getting laid. Actually, wait 'til after. Thanks.

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