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G-Phoria Awards Showcase Psychonauts Deal, Anna Nicole

Posted by simoniker on from the good-bad-ugly dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its article discussing G4TechTV's recently filmed 'G-Phoria' videogame awards show, due to be shown on August 6th, in which, according to the reporter, "Carmen Electra... and her rocker-husband Dave Navarro played it up as hosts of the second annual awards show, but in reality, the event was overshadowed by the first appearance of the final version of Doom 3 at the postshow party." IGN PS2 has more information on the winners, including "Ryu Hayabusa of Ninja Gaiden fame (Favorite Character), Tony Hawk's Underground (Alt Sports Award), Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Best Innovation), and Viewtiful Joe (Best New Franchise). The ultimate award, Game of the Year, went to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic." GameSpot's article also reveals that "sources [at the awards] let on that Majesco had picked up Tim Schafer's Psychonauts and will publish the game in early 2005", and elsewhere, Anna Nicole Smith's cosplay attempts (Ivy from Soul Calibur II, Farah from Prince Of Persia) were another 'highlight'.

40 comments

  1. Whoa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's a man, baby!

  2. Damn you, Anna Nicole Smith! by Jesterboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    How dare you sully the sacred art of cosplay? Now all those overweight, middle-aged men dressed up as Sailor Moon and the Tron guy will feel all embarrassed and stuff.

    1. Re:Damn you, Anna Nicole Smith! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Farah doesn't look so bad (minus the tat), but that Ivy picture is quite creepy.

      Okay, well...the dog one is REALLY creepy...

    2. Re:Damn you, Anna Nicole Smith! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for ruining Ivy for me, you no talent, media glutton hack.

    3. Re:Damn you, Anna Nicole Smith! by prator · · Score: 1

      If you live in Austin, you can see the Tron guy at a screening of Tron at the Alamo Drafthouse

      -prator

    4. Re:Damn you, Anna Nicole Smith! by Jesterboy · · Score: 1

      Fortunately for myself, I don't live in Austin. ^_^

  3. Re:Are the Anna Nichole Smith pics old? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    She had a de-boobing job done. Really.

  4. Not as a I remember it by superultra · · Score: 1

    Funny. I don't remember Farah having underarm flab. I wonder if she'll make her entrance through a crevice at G-phoria.

    1. Re:Not as a I remember it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nor do I remember Farah being a washed-out, attention-starved whore, but then, Prince of Persia 2 hasn't come out yet, so who's to say otherwise.

  5. The "Mainstream" by superultra · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Making video game awards appealing to mainstream TV viewers is never easy, but the G-Phoria producers attempted to add some razzle-dazzle to the proceedings by hiring Electra and Navarro to host . . . Other developers had to sit on the sidelines, and there were no developers who presented awards. Furthermore, there was no time for acceptance speeches.

    G4TV is confused as hell. They want gamers to watch (Gamers 4 TV, right?) but then silence the people that gamers most want to hear from, the designers. Then they're trying to be mainstream, but they get second rate porn stars and have been not-so-supermodels?

    Mainstream? Mainstream awards shows have what would be considered industry "experts," you know, actors and actresses that act and directors that can direct. G-phoria awards aren't "mainstream," they're pornstream. And at which point do the game designers just stop going to these lame shenanagins? Why doesn't someone respectable start up their own awards show, even if it is in someone's silicon valley garage?

    G4 has some great people, albeit all from TechTV. Why not throw Unscrewed Martin and Xplay Morgan as the hosts? The wrong people are running not only the awards show, but the channel, and it's certainly not anyone with any respect for video games. If I want to see Anna Nicole Smith or Carmen Elektra I'll fire up the old cable modem. It's the game designers I want to hear from and see on an awards show for games on a supposedly game network.

    1. Re:The "Mainstream" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      It would be an improvement if one of the hosts was replaced with Morgan, but it would also be an improvement if one of the female video game character models was replaced with Morgan.

    2. Re:The "Mainstream" by jwriney · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Agreed.

      This PA seems to fit pretty well. The G4 people act as though they wouldn't know a game if it bit them on the ass.

      G4 only seems interested in getting whatever second-rate celebs they can corral, shoving controllers in their hands, and trying to pass them off as "gamers"...

      --riney

    3. Re:The "Mainstream" by chromaphobic · · Score: 1

      I had never seen G4TV before the merger, but I did watch TechTV, and I have to say there is not a single show from G4 that I can even bear to sit through, let alone actually want to watch. I can see why the network has been struggling, if this is the best they had to offer.

      So they cancelled Call For Help & Tech Live, but kept some horrible show where you just watch other people play games for half an hour? Yeah, they're without clue.

      I'm down to just watching X-Play And TSS now, but with Patrick Norton now gone from TSS I'm not holding high hopes for that either. But, we'll see who replaces him, maybe there's hope yet.

    4. Re:The "Mainstream" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mainstream? Mainstream awards shows have what would be considered industry "experts," you know, actors and actresses that act and directors that can direct. G-phoria awards aren't "mainstream," they're pornstream. And at which point do the game designers just stop going to these lame shenanagins? Why doesn't someone respectable start up their own awards show, even if it is in someone's silicon valley garage?

      The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences does that, but it's not televised. I doubt it's even very entertaining, but it is all about video game makers honoring each other's achievements.

    5. Re:The "Mainstream" by superultra · · Score: 1

      Actually, I read reports about that and it did, in fact, sound quite fascinating. I mean, at least more interesting that Anna Nicole slut-izing my beloved video game characters.

    6. Re:The "Mainstream" by kLaNk · · Score: 1
      they get second rate porn stars

      I'm sorry, but Jenna Jameson is no second rate porn star. We are talking first class here buddy (among porn stars of course).

  6. Obligatory Rant: by sithkhan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where's the SPOLIERS tag, you insensitive clod?

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    is it that bad seein a hot chick again? if i see a hot chick walkin down the hall i dont say "repost"
    1. Re:Obligatory Rant: by nexex · · Score: 1

      ---THE LONEGUNMEN ARE DEAD---

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      Winter 2010: With Glowing Hearts
  7. Re:Are the Anna Nichole Smith pics old? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    bummer

  8. A character you missed by Pluvius · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anna Nicole Smith also cosplayed Rikku from Final Fantasy X-2. Fortunately for all of us, I can't find a picture of it.

    Rob

  9. not cool enough by superultra · · Score: 2, Insightful

    G4 only seems interested in getting whatever second-rate celebs they can corral, shoving controllers in their hands, and trying to pass them off as "gamers"...

    Exactly. I think the problem is that whoever's behind G4TV just doesn't think games are "cool" enough to hold their own. So they toss "celebrities" at it to jazz it up a little. Stupidheads.

    1. Re:not cool enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
      You guys probably don't understand just how right you are. Listen to the Season 1 DVD commentary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and you will learn that FOX wanted Willow to be "more like Buffy". I can only assume that what they meant by that was "more action, less individuality".

      Similarly, they wanted the Serenity crew of Firefly to kick ass wherever they went, not taking any crap from anybody. Or something like that. Anyway, as you know the show wouldn't be any fun if the crew wasn't afraid of anybody.

      If a highly successful company like FOX can be this bone-headed, who knows what is going on at G4.

  10. video games are like people by ImTheDarkcyde · · Score: 1

    you can NOT have a video game awards show, they are just plain wrong i mean, even ms. america is more fair since they have to have a talent and stuff but video games are like paintings and books, everyone has a favorite kind, do you see any RTS getting Game of the Year? nope! because its not as big as some crappy starwars rpg what about adventure games, when was the last time an adventure game got GoTY? - you just cant judge these books by their covers. (and my vote for game of the year goes to The Specialist mod for half life)

    1. Re:video games are like people by servognome · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Same thing goes for other awards shows, when was the last time a musical was nominated for best picture at the oscars, or some big band song being nominated for best song at the grammies.
      Awards shows are there for an industry to give themselves a pat on the back and rehype things. Take them as big parties for artists to stroke their own egos and say "look how talented we are", don't read any deeper than that.

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    2. Re:video games are like people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      uh, Chicago if memory serves. Got me there, probably b/c big band music sux. or is the sux0r

    3. Re:video games are like people by _Sexy_Pants_ · · Score: 1

      Ummm... you're jumping the gun here. The is the first video game awards show (not counting Spike TV or MTV, because those are jokes). Of course we haven't seen them, this is the first year. But I've seen RTS games win GOTY awards before. Let's go back in time, look at Warcraft 2. While I have no concrete proof for it, I'm sure that got tons of awards. And Adventure games... this is the 21st century. I hate to say it but Adventure Games are dead.

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    4. Re:video games are like people by CDLewis · · Score: 1
      Ummm... you're jumping the gun here. The is the first video game awards show (not counting Spike TV or MTV, because those are jokes). Of course we haven't seen them, this is the first year.

      I think last year's G-Phoria winners would be disappointed, but not surprised, that you are unaware that this is not the "first year."

    5. Re:video games are like people by servognome · · Score: 1

      Doh you're right about Chicago :) Maybe Westerns?
      Point is somebody always whines that their genre is always underrepresented at these award ceremonies, although I think Empire Earth and Rise of Nations are recent Game of the Year nominees from the RTS realm.

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    6. Re:video games are like people by _Sexy_Pants_ · · Score: 1

      Indeed. My apologies to game designers worldwide.

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      Look it's a joke about my sig IN MY SIG! LOL!
    7. Re:video games are like people by nexex · · Score: 1

      bleh -- rise of nations was just another rehash of the Age of Empires engine

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      Winter 2010: With Glowing Hearts
  11. Conspiracy? by ooPo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Notice how every game mentioned is for the xbox.

    Way to address maybe a third of the gaming market in the US, even less globally. Yay!

    1. Re:Conspiracy? by svallarian · · Score: 3, Insightful

      He who pays the bills
      gets the shills

      --
      I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
    2. Re:Conspiracy? by Toddarooski · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, Viewtiful Joe was exclusive to the GameCube, and THUG could be seen as primarily a PS2 game with an inferior Xbox port.

      But yes, KOTOR, Ninja Gaiden and Splinter Cell could all be seen as primarily Xbox games. It could be a conspiracy. Or it could be the Xbox had some really good games this year.

      --

      "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!"

  12. Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Those photos just completely ruined both Soul Calibur and Prince of Persia for me.

    *shudder*

  13. Good games, though by Gio+Angles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even though the production values of the show itself could use some improvement, at least they had the decency to pick good games.

    The last award show (was it SpikeTV?) was much more embarassing to gamers. Madden 2004 was selected as game of the year. Jesus, it wasn't even last year's best FOOTBALL game, and they gave it the GOTY.

  14. Morgan Webb by Johnny2Bags · · Score: 1

    I just wanna see Morgan Webb, was she there?

  15. No way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    KOTOR sucks and that game still wins awards