I've just unsubscribed from your RSS feed. The fact that you never bothered to include your news item texts in the feed never was a problem for me; the stuff I was interested in was only one click away. No big deal.
But I really don't want banner ads in my RSS feeds, I really don't want them in every second RSS item, and I especially don't want them in a feed that only carries links, not content.
I don't "visit websites"; virtually all my information intake over the last couple of years has been happening via Google Reader. A couple of those monthly page impressions you're so proud of was little old me, clicking on news items in your RSS feed. That's not going to happen anymore. Your feed is gone, and I'm certainly not going to start dropping by your otherwise all right website just to see what's new. But hey, you're not going to lose any sleep over this, you have enough visitors.
I'm now switching my daily gaming news intake over to Joystiq. They're not quite on the same level of quality as you guys, but their feed doesn't slap their readers in the face by way of obnoxious banner ads.
It's a shame because I thought you guys "got" the net. So long.