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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."
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...
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!