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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.
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
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.