Is Video Game TV Closer That You Think?

Gamer Bitch X writes "Someone's trying to launch a gaming news channel (G4) and someone else is there to chat 'em up. From an interview at UGO where they ask if G4 were to feature a McLaughlin Group-style show, who would be your ideal panel and host?" CEO from G4: "Shigeru Miyamoto, Alexey Pajitnov, Chun Li, Will Wright and Max Payne , hosted by Bart Simpson (I still love him from my Fox Network days)." Okay, I take it back. If the above were true, I'd watch this in a heartbeat!" Riiight. I wouldn't mind seeing a few real shows about video games, but I'd want it hosted by Old Man Murray. It'd be nice just to quickly see video clips, but somehow I doubt that it could be done with integrity. I imagine a video game network being more like an infomercial channel, and well, yuck.

Comments

If they need CG characters to host their shows...

[IIOIOOIOO]

I heard that Jar-Jar Binks is looking for work.

Re:Sports!

[yatest5]

For Sports they could play Quake 3 tournament demos. With commentary and replays. I'd watch every week!

You know when sometimes you get in from the pub late, and catch late-night tv, and all the ads are for like sex chat lines and sex contacts. Just *imagine* what the ads would be like during a quake tournament broadcast!

Shows we won't be likely to see:

[Bonker]

Campers' Corner: Hosts K111j0y and 14m3r talk about the best way to grief-play in Multiplayer FPS's like Q3A, UT, CS, etc... They discuss the best aiming proxies, server mods, and latency attacks to use. Actual gaming advice will be a little bit on the thin side, however.

EverGeeks: "Verily, after I chugged my mountain dew and played gems for another forty-five minutes did the dread dragon Nagafen spawn. Heroicly, I thusly rushed in to slay the beast, along with my brethren, sixty-five other level 50+ druids. EQ R0XX0RS!"

Real Life vs. Gaming: Of course real gamers can't afford to eat and buy all the games they want to play at the same time, especially if they play consoles and can't leech warez copies of the games from IRC and Morpheus. This show is more in the way of financial advice like: "If you crush up gravel and put it in the bathtub with water, you can get your clothes almost as clean if you washed them with soap." and "Of course you can eat meat that's a little green if you cook it thouroughly enough. A little mold never hurt anybody. Watch out for bulging cans you find in the dumpster, tho. Botulism can kill you if you're not lucky."

Re:Can This Possibly Work?

[nomadic]

I know I may be in the minority here, but I feel pretty lame when I blow a whole night actually gaming. I can't imagine how lame it would be to blow a whole night just watching someone talk about gaming...


How about reading a slashdot story, that points to another story, that talks about someone talking about gaming?

Companies that won't advertise on gEEk TV

[Anonymous Coward]

Anything related to women (ie: douche tools/cosmetics/yogurt ...etc)

Anything related to personal hygiene (ie: tooth paste/soap/shampoo ...etc)

Anything related to dating/sex (ie: condoms/nice restaurants/fashionable clothing)

Re:Idea: Televise game competitions

[Happy Monkey]

How do you know dog isn't good? Maybe Poodle tastes like streudel!

Re:Idea: Televise game competitions

[kresmoi]

i can just see the interviews in the locker rooms after the games...

"You've just won the ultimate Quake tournament, what are you going to do next?"

"I'm gonna take my Sims to Disney Land!"

News Crawler

[swankypimp]

They should have a news crawler on the bottom like on CNN or FoxNews. Only instead of "FDA Approves New Anthrax Drug... More Pro-Taliban Casualties in Afghanistan..." etc., they could carry a list of active warez FTP sites.