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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.
Someone has already launched a TV channel devoted to computer gaming.... on Sky Digital...
It is more than a little sucky though...
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
from retrogames yesterday:
Starcade Memories - Older visitors from the USA will no doubt recall Starcade, the '80s game/trivia TV show about videogames! They featured most of early gaming's classics, and it brought back a few memories looking through their site. (Thanks Antos) - prophet
Well nothing new here, such a channel now exists on satellite for more than 6 years
The channel started as C: and was proposing download through the satellite, and were proposing some anime series, like Evangelion, Lodoss and some series like Red Dwarf. There were no real show on games itself.
What happened after was that Infogrammes came into the company and transformed into a real game news channel, now called Gameone. They still shows some anime, shows some clip of videogames with either game music or some chosen. Most of those clips are pretty good. They are also shows now which talks about some Internet Website games, etc... But the focus is also on anime, Comics, Movies. Well far more than just videogames, and more related to the videogames culture and what is close to it.
By the way, Anime is far more known in France and for a much longer time than it is in the us and the exposure is way bigger
Pelops
Hi,
NBC Germany airs a show called Giga Games from 10pm to midnight (every night!). It think it's fairly successful. I watch it from time to time. If you wanna see what a game looks like, it comes in handy...
The web-site is: giga.de.
- Jan
I stumbled across this video game review show on TBS Superstation the other night, basically two guys sitting in a living room playing and talking video games. It was on so late I'd need a Tivo to catch another episode. Here's more info about the show.
This article is confusing- are they saying there are no video game shows already or something? There are already several shows out, perhaps the best being Electric Playground (www.elecplay.com).
Entertaining and they have a good number of interviews and such too.
This is a great link to relive the Starcade memories. Between Starcade and Silver Spoons it's no wonder I have a housefull of classic video games (including the top 25!).
-- "Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long."
How many of you watch TechTV? I think its a badass channel, esepcially The Screen Savers. While its geared more towards Windows than Linux/Open Source, Leo does bring it up on occasion. TechTV has really taken off. I think it provides a balance of everything. They have the Screen Savers (which shows cool things for your computer and how to fix windows annoyances), then Fresh Gear which shows badass new technological stuff coming out on the market (although we'd have to be as rich as Bill Gates to afford it). Then there are the news shows that just broadcast news in the tech industry.
:), but gaming is a lot more fun.
If this G4 gaming channel came on as strong as TechTV did, I think it would totally rock. If they had something, for example, that featured a badass gamer every week (or day) that would give hints, as he was playing whatever game, newbies and experienced players alike would flock to the channel. I know I would, and I consider myself an experienced UT'er.
To me, watching/playing in online games is more fun and more adrenaline rushing than sports. Sports can be enjoyable, and if kept in moderation, fun at times
If you don't have this new channel yet, I suggest you go here and try to get it in your community.
-Vic