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Gaming Gets a 'Crossfire'
N'Gai at Newsweek has up a quick article highlighting the start of a series that could be considered gaming's answer to 'Crossfire'. Hosted by the GameTrailers site, "Bonus Round" is set to be a frequently-produced show highlighting and discussing issues in gaming from multiple viewpoints. Geoff Keighley (writer of Behind the Game and host of Spike's Game Head, among many other things) will play frontman for the show, and the first episode has a few notable names sitting down to talk about the Wii. From the article: "The staff at GameTrailers were kind enough to provide Level Up with an exclusive preview of the next 'Bonus Round' segment--shown above--where an analyst (Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter), a composer (Tommy Tallarico) and the producer of the hit videogame Scarface (Vivendi's Peter Wanat) discuss Nintendo's Wii. In 2007, Keighley and the folks at GameTrailers plan to produce new episodes on a monthly schedule, with a wider variety of guests and a broader set of topics, including micropayments (such as the purchase of a 99-cent song from iTunes) and emerging trends in game design."
I thought it said: "Gamers Get A Life"
If you've watched gamehead you know it's a long infomercial for the PS3. Why would this be any different? The next "episode" will gather a group of people who are anti-change and sic them on the Wii... oh boy.
I read the script, and I think it would help my character's motivation if he was on fire. -Bender
This is as good as you're going to find. It's an interesting debate...Tallarico is a bit of a moron, but whatever. The first one they had on the PS3vs.360 had some good points as well.
Crossfire was easily the worst show that was ever shown on cable news, next to the O'Reilly Factor or whatever the fuck that neo-Nazi's show is called.
Gaming doesn't _need_ some dumbass show like Crossfire. What it really needs is for people to start creating games with some substance, rather than another 10 Quake and Unreal Tournament sequels. If no one cares about the games then there's not much market for the show, is there?
I'm having a hard time imagining how there will be enough content to keep these people all talking for a half hour without descending into cries of "I screwed your mother" and "lol no ur teh gehxxorz!"
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Isn't Crossfire our answer to Crossfire?
Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting the gaming scene!
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
They do realize what happened to the original Crossfire, right? Besides, do people actually enjoy watching people argue about videogaming? Seems boring when you can just log onto a forum and argue consoles there...
Shameless plug.... http://crossfire.real-time.com/
John McLaughlin: Question - Best and worst games of 2006! Pat Buchanan!
Pat Buchanan: Well, there's only one best game this year, and that's America's Army, but they're stuck on the worst console of the 21st century, the Iraqstation Thr--
John McLaughlin: Wrong! Tony Blankley!
Tony Blankley: This year's best game is Muslim Scrolls IV: Obliv--
John McLaughlin: Wrong! Eleanor!
Eleanor Clift: Obviously, the year's worst game is Sim Bush Admini--
John McLaughlin: Also wrong! Mor-ton!
Morton Kondracke: Hey, I don't even do this show anym--
John McLaughlin: Wrong! The correct answer is, Duke Nukem Forever! Next year, 2007, will this year's best and worst game finally be released? Bye bye!
To quote Jon Stewart, "Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America."
Torrent anyone?
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because there isn't enough partisan bullshit in gaming already.