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G4 And Gamespot Team Up
Kyle Orland (the video game ombudsman) has a new site, VGM Watch, and today he has commentary and and interview on a team up between G4TV and Gamespot. Given the tone of the interview, there will be more collaboration between the two businesses in the future. From the article: "Usually, the worlds of online games journalism and televised games journalism remain relatively competitive. Sure, an online outlet may report on the latest televised game awards show and members of the online media may sometimes appear on TV, but usually the two media are competing for the same eyeballs, rather than collaborating to create joint content. That changed this week, though, when GameSpot and G4 teamed up to produce four half-hour episodes of Cinematech (the shows premiered over the past two days, but this is G4, so there will be at least 50 repeats in the next week). I talked to Gamespot's Greg Kasavin about the G4 collaboration, the differences between TV and the Web, and the future of putting video into video game journalism."
People actually WATCH G4?!?
They could have 12 women orgies with a donkey and a floor-lamp and I still wouldn't watch that channel. "Sean Baby" is enough to make me throw up, let alone the sickly little blonde dude and his emo/lame chick sidekick.
As my girlfriend puts it, "I'd rather watch someone just play a game for an hour than this crap." The only exception was their "Johnny Extreme!" E3 bit, and even that was only funny because I was there and saw it going on. TO THE MAX! IT'LL PUNCH YOUR BALLS OFF! EXTREME!... and SUPERFULOUS!
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This is correct, X-Play was originally called GameSpotTV, however, this is because, at the time, the channel was called ZDTV and ZDNet owned Gamespot.
Since then, however, the channel formerly known as ZDTV has been sold twice (first to Paul ALlen's Vulcan Ventures and then to G4TV) and Gamespot has been sold to C|Net.
I would be surprised if anyone still working at either company (besides Adam Sesler and perhaps original GameSPotTV co-host Lauren Felder(? was that her name?) were working there back then.
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I don't think it matters at this point. After killing TechTV and replacing TechTV programming with that shitty, shitty, awful G4 line up... nothing can bring that station back. What bugs me worst about the G4 line up are the fucking stupid people they manage to drag onto these shows. You watch X-Play and you see true gamers having fun and doing their thing. You watch any of their shitty shoes and it is pretty apparent that they have pretty looking women who couldn't get a job anywhere else staring at a teleprompter with such cues as "laugh cute". Then they filled their channel with the must mind numbing crap they could find. "Cheat!" !? For fucks sake, anyone who doesn't know how to use the Internet to find cheat codes to their video games is a fucking idiot. Then you have the stupid fucking car shows. Yeah, I got it. Cars and Asian chicks that look like they have been drugged into a permanent state of mental retardation. Gee, you found my nerd fantasy. After that sort of crap "Video Game Vixens" some how manages to further lower the bar, which is a feat in it of its self.
I just can't believe that sort of crap replace ScreenSavers, Body Hits, and all the other awesome programming that TechTV had. Gah. I hope G4 goes bankrupt. The only thing worthwhile about G4 is that if I am bored, I can be sure that they have an X-play rerun. G4, you fucking suck. Grow up.