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Television EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag UK news report on game addiction clinic upsets gamers 23 Gamers are getting angry over a UK news report on the game addiction clinic that we talked about yesterday. The West Country Tonight (haha) ran a story on the clinic, based in Somerset, with the... Jaroo.com is like Hulu for cartoons 33 Excuuuuse me, but videogame cartoons are rarely good. That said, there's something about watching them that is extremely satisfying. Sometimes it's seeing how they've worked elements of the game ... TV's Criminal Minds becomes a videogame 6 Criminal Minds, that CBS television show where everyone has either unattractive faces or unattractive names, is being made into a videogame. The show (and the game) follow the work of FBI profile... Netflix Instant Watch coming to PS3 in November 81 Color this PS3 owner surprised: after more than 11 months of Xbox 360 exclusivity, Netflix will be making its way to the PlayStation 3 next month. We’ve heard this rumor many times before, ... Tim Schafer talks Brutal Legend on Late Night 34 I don't watch Late Night at all, so far be it from me to pass judgment on the quality of the show, but if this is how Fallon runs all his interviews it has to be the most awkward show in the worl... SAG, AFTRA and the games industry agree on new contracts 24 Remember when all the writers went on strike? It sucked. Television seasons were cut short and my television stopped being fun when I wasn't playing videogames. What if that happened to videogame... Watchdog attempts to humilitate Sony, fails hard 72 Earlier today we talked about how UK TV show Watchdog was running a scathing feature on the alleged high failure rate of the PlayStation 3. In a bid to shame Sony, the show parked a branded van o... China ripping off Pokemon, Digimon and Naruto in new show 38 China's state-run TV station China Central Television is airing a new show for kids that manages to plagiarize Pokémon, Digimon and Naruto in one big shameless faux-anime package. The cart... Prototype to appear on HBO's Entourage 51 You know how Prototype is blatantly better than inFAMOUS? It's on HBO this Sunday! Evil publisher Activision is boasting that the hit television show Entourage will feature some sort of cameo fro... PS3 accounts for 10% of BBC iPlayer viewing 45 The good press for Sony just hasn't stopped this week. The BBC has praised the PlayStation 3 for its iPlayer functionality, describing the response to the new feature as "amazing" and r... U.S. gov thinking about unified rating system for most media 32 You know what is confusing? Having all these different ratings floating around like some sort of rating harem. Which rating system are you supposed to trust? According to the U.S. government we s... PlayOn video streaming service hits the Wii 19 This generation of gaming consoles has welcomed in video/movie entertainment in full force. Unfortunately, Nintendo's Wii, despite having the largest install base, does not have much in the way o... Crazed lady plays Dead Space: Extraction on True Blood 35 You're watching True Blood, right? Everyone is doing it. The HBO show has amassed a solid following, and it seems like someone thinks that same crowd would be the type that would want a Nintendo ... Prison Break game picked up by Deep Silver 13 We weren't so sure about that game based on the hit Fox show Prison Break after Brash parted ways with it, but now it looks like we may see more of Wentworth Miller and company outside of his pos... The one Wii game you've always wanted 23 It'll never happen but a game like Robot Chicken's Humping Robot for the Wii would surely bring back all the hardcore gamers to Nintendo's console. Humping Robot is fun for the whole family, just... Game Face launches on Bravo in the UK, for casual gamers 20 Here is what I envision ex-MTV Europe boss Peter Einstein's pitch to Bravo UK for the new show Game Face to have gone like:Einstein: The thing casual gamers like least about games is the interest... Pure Pwnage coming to Canadian TV 26 Pure Pwnage has finally hit it big! The Pure Pwnage series will be airing on Showcase this Fall over in Canada. This also pretty much explains why there hasn’t been a new episode in nearly ... Watch Mindfreak, get free couch in Home 24 Are you tired of sitting on things not shaped like coffins in your virtual home in Home? It's just a pain, isn't it? But who wants to go out and buy a virtual something shaped like a coffin? Ther... Warner Bros. hands a rose to The Bachelor videogame 22 Yup, this is happening.Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Ludia announced today that they will be creating videogames based on the hit reality shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Acc... Madden NFL 10 developers drop knowledge on whiny receiver 28 For those who thought that Seattle Seahawks wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh was merely joking when he complained about his attributes in Madden NFL 10 and said he was boycotting the game, well,... From the Console to the TV Station: Part 3 29 Videogames are, by nature, a very action-oriented medium. In the vast majority of them, players are tasked to hop around, collect items, power themselves up, destroy the environment, and kick the... Metalocalypse game coming to XBLA and PSN 31 Brendon Small, the creator of Metalocalypse, the hit cartoon show on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, revealed to the Wall Street Journal that a game based on the crazy show is in the works. We’... New CSI game to feature Morpheus, lack kung fu 10 I'm not going to lie to you, dear readers. I have not watched the below trailer for Ubisoft's upcoming game based off the television show CSI, titled CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Deadly Intent... From the Console to the TV Station: Part 2 42 Last week, From the Console to the TV Station discussed the very first TV adaptations of videogames. Now we jump ahead a few years to two of the more memorable game-based cartoons.The Mario and S... Murder, She Wrote gets a game ... I don't know why! 29 Who comes up with this stuff? I can't believe someone sat there and thought, "You know what? 2009 is the right time to announce a Murder, She Wrote game." Regardless, somebody has and n... Strange, black light version of Super Mario Bros from India 18 India's Got Talent? I'm sure they do. In this case, it seems that their talent lies in modifying how classic videogames play out into strange skits.On the television show India's Got Talent, one ... Lulz: Clip from Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! on videogames 34 I like Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!, that Showtime series that cracks open anything and everything you'd be curious/passionate about and makes it look silly/stupid/trivial. Their next focus is on... Microsoft inks a deal to bring Canal + content to Xbox Live 9 French media giant Canal + has inked a deal with Microsoft to provide some of its content to Xbox 360 owners, but I would imagine that the offer is only available to Gold customers. The deal come... Why you can't play Hulu on your PS3 45 I watch all my television on my computer by hooking it up to my television through an HDMI cable. At this point there just isn't any point to watching TV "live" since everyone can get e... Tiger plays his own game as well as he plays the U.S. Open 13 Is it sad that Tiger Woods has to win the U.S. Open in order to not suck or is it just a testament to how good he is? Well, as amazing as he is at real golf, he’s not so good at virtual gol... MTV True Life to cover game addiction, wants you 30 Bitching about MTV is pretty much something everyone loves to do except for tween girls, but to be honest ever since Singled Out there's been a show on there that I'd watch, and now that there ar... Thompson: GTA is as bad an epidemic as polio 38 By now we normally ignore whatever Jack Thompson says, but since this is also a chance to advertise Penn & Teller's Bullshit! we will jump right on the chance, thank you very much. If you're ... Sky coming to 360 26 Hey UK! You like television? You like your 360? Why not have both! Sky, the UK's largest provider of prescription television, has announced that they will be offering up their live television pum... Rumortoid: Hulu coming to the Xbox 360 in the near future? 21 Hulu has made my life tons easier since I'm not the type of person to rush home when my favorite show comes on (or for that matter, watch shows made in America). So what if you could watch shows ... Wii video service Wii-no-Ma could be coming overseas 7 The Nintendo Wii video service Wii-no-Ma sounds pretty interesting. Now that Wii Remote will actually be like a real remote control, right? The only problem is that it's Japan-only right now as N... Change4Life returns with a pro-game message 14 Many of you should remember Change4Life, the health-conscious ad campaign that seemed to draw correlation between playing videogames and risking an early death. The controversy surrounding the ca... John Madden announces retirement from broadcasting 22 After a storied football coaching tenure and an even more impressive and prolific career in the broadcast booth, John Madden has decided to retire at age 73. Madden noted that he is in good healt... Morgan Webb, Jimmy Fallon to talk E3 tonight... wait, what? 32 As a late night talk show host, Jimmy Fallon is, like, totally way cooler than those other guys. I mean, seriously -- did Johnny Carson ever have a Twitter account where he recount fights he had ... NBC shows now available on PSN the day after airing 15 NBC is pushing itself further and further into the realm of digital distribution with its latest endeavor, offering shows as download-to-own the day after they air on broadcast TV, in both HD and... Watch me Hadouken GameTrailers TV tonight on Spike! 14 Possessing the massive thighs of Chun-Li and the curvy package of Ryu, I strutted into the GameTrailers TV studios a couple weeks ago and shot a segment in which I talked about the most anticipat... Venture Bros season three DVD coming in Atari 2600 flavor 28  The Venture Bros is one of the best cartoons on TV right now. Period. If you’ve never watched the show, then you’re doing yourself a huge disservice. So why am I talking abou... Destructoid finger bangs Spike! Watch me violate GameTrailers TV! 16 I never know how to write a post when I am asking people to watch a video with me in it. I don’t know; it just makes me sound so … cocky.Let’s just get this over with quickly, ... Whoa! Who is that blonde, dolphin-loving guy on GameTrailers TV tonight? 50 It’s me!A couple weeks ago I shot a segment for the Spike VGA nomination special for GameTrailers TV and it is airing tonight (on Spike, midnight EST)! So, watch it! And also watch the actu... Destructoid interview: Geoff Keighley on the Spike VGAs 18 This Sunday, December 14, Spike TV will air the 2008 Spike VGAs, the network's yearly videogames award show and only televised industry event. This year, Spike are coming hard with some top-... Celebrity presenters and attendees announced for Spike VGAs 26 Maybe you don't care, but you should -- Spike's annual Video Game Awards airs this Sunday, December 14 at 9:00 PM ET. It's live, and all sorts of stuff is going down, including the world premiere... Ubisoft dodges a bullet, drops plans for Heroes game 16 Watch as we fall off the edge of our seats waiting in anticipation for Ubisoft to reveal more information on the Heroes games, based on the NBC series, they announced in 2007. Well, it turns out ... Big bucks, no Whammies, STOP! Press Your Luck game coming to PC, consoles 27 Disclaimer: This may be the only time I can legitimately talk about best show ever Press Your Luck and, more importantly, Whammies, on Destructoid. Please humor me and my ridiculously long rambli... Sci-Fi Channel to launch a reality videogame television show 24 Shows where hosts actually talk about videogames seem like they're dying off these days. What happened to those? I liked those! Instead, we get fed reality/competition stuff like this new show co... Rock Band 2 reality show to premiere on VH1 Classic this month 32 There have been rumors about this show for a while, but now it’s official!On October 15, VH1 Classic will premiere a new reality show called Rock Band 2: The Stars. It will feature Alice Co... Sony sells 85,000 PlayTV boxes in a week in UK 20 We've had our eyes on this PS3 DVR attachment called PlayTV. Eyes only. Not our paws, though, as Sony has only released it in the UK. The little add-on units are selling like hotcakes. We're hopi... Watch me on COIN-OP TV tonight! 30 Look, I’m in a fancy promotional graphic! My mom will be so proud!The fantastic folks over at COIN-OP TV have generously asked me to be a guest on their show tonight live at 8pm PT (11pm ET... Vomiting zombie exclusive, Jenny McCarthy on tonight's GameTrailers TV 8 Each week I lament the fact that Spike TV airs GameTrailers TV in the middle of the night, when I'm either sleeping or obliterated from a night of drinking and Rock Band. But the show is actually... G4's X-Play expanding to one hour this holiday 36 Say what you will about G4 (and I know you'll say it), but X-Play is a damned fine show. So I'd say it's pretty great news that the show will be expanding this December, according to G4 president... Buffy the Vampire Slayer comes to DS 30 Today, 505 Games announced a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to bring a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer game to the Nintendo DS. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sacrifice is currently under development by... Pack your Wiimotes and go: Top Chef videogame may be headed to the Wii 23 Licensing.biz -- a Web site that hurts my brain with all its crazy “acquisition” and “brand profile” talk -- is reporting that NBC Universal (which owns Brav... Times Square gets its own videogame broadcast 22 Even with as popular as videogames are today, broadcasts on gaming are pretty hard to come by. Sure, we have the G4's shows, and there's always GameTrailers TV. But there's not much beyond that.T... Gentlemen, resume Byron love! Game deriding show recorded last year 26 Yesterday there was a bit of a stir over Dr. Tanya Byron's new TV show Am I Normal? in which videogame "addiction" was compared to heroin abuse, and WoW was written off as "childis... Microsoft to distribute original shows via Xbox 360 27 It's nice to be able to flip on your Xbox 360 to view your favorite movies and television shows, but now it looks like the console will get its own original content. Microsoft has reached an agre... Eidos confirms Doctor Who game is in the works, Daleks better come with that 32 There's a crystal clear line between the casual and the hardcore dork. Watching Doctor Who proudly catapults you past that line and far into the serious realm, where people say "Huh?" w... Dexter getting a game port, don't get excited just yet 21 That's right, the show featuring a questionably moral blood spatter analyst with a jones for brutal violence, loved by many and edited into oblivion to band-aid the gaping wound left by the write... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! Dive in! meetup+play for a chance to win a PC Dtoid Twitter    Got news?   tips@destructoid.com Reviews & Previews Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles review Left 4 Dead 2 review Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex review Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! review EyePet review more reviews Online Lessons 101 Monster Slaying in Monster Hunter Tri Hooking onto, under and above Just Cause 2 PS3's 256-player MAG Rooms The Main Building Skate 3 more previews - The Dtoid Army is 50638 strong - Showing Cblogs with 3+ faps   show all Call for entries: do the wrong thing New to Dtoid? 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