I plan to turn my attention to full-time with my production company Super Creative and live touring nerd-carnival leetUP," Pereira said.
Wow, it's like the company name is a sarcastic pun itself.
I plan to turn my attention to full-time with my production company Super Creative and live touring nerd-carnival leetUP," Pereira said.
They also (and this disturbs me) seems to have pigeonholed their audience in liking a particular types of game or their editorial content is geared towards those games (i.e. the whole argument over G4 being biased against PS3/biased against 360, giving Call of Duty games accolades every year, their hatred of Wii games & handhelds, etc.). The problem is every review site has a similar complaint lodged, but G4 (and X-Play) has that happen a lot.
Wait when/why did Sessler leave?
Wait when/why did Sessler leave?
Uh... it's pretty big difference. Have you ever even watched ESPN?
1. They show live sports. Currently Baseball is in season... they have no shortage of games to show there.
2. The sports recap shows (sportscenter) are an hour long and perpetually repeat throughout the day.
3. They have several different opinion shows where a couple of sportswriters argue and talk about the day's sporting events. There's a couple more hours of programming to rerun throughout the day.
That's ESPN in a nutshell. I highly doubt most gamers would be interested in watching something like tailored to games (I wouldn't). There's already plenty of video being released on a regular basis (gametrailers, giantbomb, etc) that's practically commercial free/limited commercials and on demand.
I thought Tommy Tallarico was kind of a douchebag on Electric Playground. There was just something about him I didn't quite like. I didn't know he was a video game music composer until about a year after I started watching G4 .Also, he happens to be Steven Tyler's cousin. Surprise. Surprise.
You're seriously overestimating the cable television audience for video games. You're dealing with a market segment that is dramatically more tech savvy than the general public. Why would you sit in front of a TV when you can find niche content more easily by yourself?It's a shame we don't have an actual gaming channel. It wouldn't be amazingly hard to program. You'd air E Sports, reviews, news, and interviews. There's so many games that come out, that there wouldn't be too many gaps in programming. And if there are, that's why you have competent editors to discuss gaming. Somehow ESPN has enough content to fill like ten channels, but a billion dollar industry can't program more than 2 hours a day.
Edit: happy that Kevin is getting out. He needed to.
Attack of the Show was the show that "evolved" from the Screen Savers right?
Who the fuck is going to host the E3 TV broadcast? Maybe they will go to some of the internet guys.
Oh wow. What the hell is going on over there? First Sesslar and now Kevin. Wonder what this means G4. Who will be next to go?
Kevin Pereira
Yup.
Final nail in the coffin. Rename it the COPS Channel.
I haven't seen it in years but I remember it going down hill extremely quickly early on. The TechTV people left quickly and it transformed into something I didn't quite understand. It was a show that made me feel like a confused old man.
Oh wow. What the hell is going on over there? First Sesslar and now Kevin. Wonder what this means G4. Who will be next to go?
I haven't seen it in years but I remember it going down hill extremely quickly early on. The TechTV people left quickly and it transformed into something I didn't quite understand. It was a show that made me feel like a confused old man.
You could make an argument that G4 already tried that approach once, and failed. The old Pseudo/AGN guys that came over not only had the chops and knew what they were talking about, they know how to host and had the skills necessary to be a broadcast personality. All of the others were good-looking peeps who didn't really understand games and gaming culture (save for Judgment Day, which was just an outlet for guys already doing a videogame-based tv show).
Whether it be because they didn't give it the time necessary to build an audience, or because they weren't willing to fully invest in the concept, it never came together. And I have no idea what the mindset was prior to the acquisition of TechTV (beyond purchasing its audience), but seems like they may have gone in with one idea in mind, but because of the expense of the move, chose another path.
I stopped watching that show around the time Olivia Munn started co-hosting. Not because of her specifically but it was already pretty shitty at that point. The Screen Savers was cool, actually Sarah Lane was awesome... I was bummed when she left AOTS (or was it still Screen Savers at that point? Kevin Pereira had already started hosting)
Honestly, X-Play sucked to, I didn't even know Adam left but good for him.
Really I just loved watching G4 for COPS reruns.
Doesn't seem that long ago that Kevin was pimping Katamari Damacy on G4 every chance he got and campaigning for Namco to bring it out over here.
It basically became an hour live slice of the general noise you hear on the internet brought to your television. It was fun at times but I could never sit down and watch it regularly.
Watch it on your PS3
It was good when Sarah Lane and Brendan Moran were on it.
Fox buys it. Turns it into IGN TV.
and then gets cancelled after a season.
Wait, did News Corp sell off IGN a couple of years ago?
Wasn't it still the Screen Savers then? I remember there was a point when the format change of the show was obviously happening but they still had not changed the name.
Yep, can't say I miss it one bit. Even it's one redeeming feature (E3 pressers) are no longer relevant since Spike shows them and we get streams.Since its been off Directv for years I kept forgetting G4's existence until the recent news stuff.
...so who's going to have to deal with Candace Bailey for an hour of live television every day?
Bring back Techtv
Kickstart TechTV.
Kickstart TechTV.