G4 died a while ago, this is just the nails in the coffin

We have Twitch now. G4 doesn't need to exist anymore.

Adam Sessler left with his dignity in tact.

Yeah, cause the world needs another collection of fuckery like Spike TV.

And nothing of value was lost.

It's sad. I still watched X-Play occasionally, and only found out Sessler was gone a couple weeks ago. I never liked Attack of the Show, but they also lost their two main people in a little over a year. It seems like everyone has abandoned ship already, with only Morgan Webb still really hanging around.

It looks like even that minimal strand is about to be cut as well.

Looks like I can stop watching G4. It's sad, but maybe it'll force a self-appraisal by G4. If the rebrand succeeds, whatever, there's always the internet. If it fails, good, it shows that we do have some role to play as a younger, enthusiastic audience.

@Shadowstew

Exactly. Gamers watch gaming stuff on the internet. A cable channel is useless.

I enjoyed G4 as you said back in the days of 2002-2005, haven't watched it in a long time but still am sad that it might be cancelled and everyone is leaving.

The only thing I have done annualy is DVR'ed its E3 coverage. Other than that I don't really watch it anymore.

G4 was better back when I was in middle school. Sometime later they started fucking up, and almost all their gaming shows were gone except for xplay and attack of the show.

Then attack of the show morphed into something weird, but by then g4 was already dead.

Hell the last person left that I remember is Morgan Webb, but what is she without the Sessler?

G4 was crap after about 2005 anyway, or it may have been I was I believe in elementary school, meh.

I remeber wanting
to watch some gaming stuff maybe 2 years ago, and they had cheaters and cops, followed by a naked ladies club... For the next 16 hours.

@AngryAvatar

Normally I would agree. But going by the steady stream of traffic I saw at the g4 booth at PAX, I'd say they still have an audience.

TwitchTV >>>> G4

and Twitch offers people the chance to actually make money doing it too, if they get enough followers.

TechTV was way better than G4 ever was anyway.

I will admit this: I watch Ninja Warrior more than any other show on G4... by a rather large margin.

That show rocks, even though the American version is about as boring as watching paint dry.

And another part of my childhood is dead.

Fucking American television executives. Oh well, I haven't watched it since 7th grade.

I feel for the guys who enjoyed watching this, a similar channel (Giga) in Germany was dropped by the company who owned them back in 2009.

I agree with most everyone said, G4 died in my eyes a long time ago. I remember what my dad said when The Man Show started on G4: It's like showing a soap opera on a sports channel.

I also remember when G4tv.com got cancelled only to show Star Trek reruns. :(

Let's all remember the good ol' days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pGGPd3CgOU

God bless, gaming <3

It will not be missed.

Maybe this will open the window for a.new gaming channel.

Why are you reposting an article from 2005?

DirecTV dropped them years ago... all I missed, though, is Ninja Warrior, X Play, and AotS. What I would have loved is if they focused more on sci fi and action shows/movies... You know, the extension of things that usually populate games.

Or they could just whore out themselves to Cops and Cheaters, lose distributors, and then completely go to worse shit.

Kevin Periera must have known what was up. He was a producer after all. I'm guessing that he saw which was the wind was blowing, and abandoned ship.

Best of luck to Kevin, Olivia Munn, & Adam Sessler!

Once Sessler left the final nail was set. It's just a matter of lowering the coffin into the earth and scooping dirt over it.

Much like Nintendo Power, G4 was part of my youth (specifically my junior high-high school years) and helped shape me into the gamer I am today. However, unlike Nintendo Power, I don't really feel that much of a loss over losing G4, especially since only a handful of shows were what I would classify as good. Besides as everyone's been saying, G4 went down the tubes when they merged with TechTv and got rid of most of their gaming related programming (or in the case of TechTv most of their tech shows) and replaced them with reruns of Cops.

Screw Olivia Munn bruh!

they should make a Destructoid TV show!!!!

just let Max and Tara long do their thing :P

and add in Holmes and Jim Sterling ^^

It makes me wonder if Adam and Kevin left because they knew this was coming.

saw this happening really but it not nreally needed anymore

G4 really doesnt seem to know where its true crowd was. I loved Ninja Warrior, the Anime they played, Unbeatable Banzuke, and some of the other crazy stuff they played before. It helped me appreciate games and technology more. But now, every time, it never fails, they play Cops. I don't know why they think this is a good idea, I've seen it enough to never care about the show. If they had an actual lineup of shows, I'd watch it more, but I seriously have no interest in the channel because when I can watch it, its cops, when I can't watch it, there is a 10% chance its something I want to see.

Whoever the guys running the channel are, you guys are the ones who truly screwed up.

G4 died a long time ago - and Sessler leaving was the nail in the coffin.

Luckily we still have our Canadian boy Victor Lucas. We still get "Reviews on the Run" on many different channels in Canada and additionally we also now get "EP Daily" (formerly Electric Playground) - which is a classier version of Attack of the Show.

Nice thing about Lucas is that the people he has on the show are passionate about what they do -whether it's gaming, movies or tech. They're not pretty faces with big boobs... or wannabe comedians. His shows still remain grounded and don't give in to the SpikeTV/lowest common denominator mentality so many other shows have sunk to

R.I.P. Icons and Cinematech. I never woulda bothered with a lot of games I do now if not for them.

Besides maybe a total of 90 minutes over its entire lifespan of valuable worthwhile material, I'll miss what Oliva Munn did for deepthroating and licking objects! She really classed it up, G4 was TRULY an important gaming institute that we all could rely on!

RIP G4! *pours one out for it*

Well for me "G4" died for me when it took over in the merger with "Tech.Tv" which greatly upset me. Adam Sessler, leaving was just a realization of how bad it was for most. Back in the day I used to watch all of the best anime at the time on their channel -- "Soul Taker" -- and loved watching, Kevin, back in the day when all he was hosting was "Arena" and had the goofiest outfits, and that mustache'. What a riot, but atleast it was genuine entertainment and worth watching. Infact almost everything that aired on that channel back in the day was beyond subperb and excellent -- "X-Games" -- actually meant something and poor Morgan Webb, was coming off as some egocentric wanna be self envisioned given gift to the gamers for sexual fantasies. She was cooler back in the day is what I mean. Olivia Munn? That dumb bitch? Hated her since day one. Air-headed moron to the end. If she was acting it was not far off then in depecting who she really was inside. A dumbass. Easy on the eyes? Maybe. Not my type, but it's all subjective. Seriously the channel went to hell though when ninety percent of the air time was taken up by Cops, and Cheaters. Not to say those are horrible shows, but lord oh mighty! Give it a break.. Reminds of me how SpikeTv. has ruined Star Wars for me. If there is any holiday coming in I stay clear of the channel like it is infected with the plague.

You know who does a pretty good show? Destructiod. Yeah I said it. More worthwhile entertainment then anything G4 has spewed out in the last eight years or so now -- minus Ninja Warrior.

as some one who watched g4 in their crappy years. I think I started watching it around 2007 or 2008. I always liked their exclusive hands on videos and atos was cool. I managed to go to one of the websoup showings and got to be in the g4 studio. it was the smallest room ever... anyways yea this dosnt suprise me at all, since a lot of people already left. rip g4.

Awww man! I love Cops!
Technically the first, and longest running, reality show.
Seriously, anytime I feel like a moron, I turn on Cops, and almost instantly start to feel better about myself.

Good, they killed Tech TV so they deserve to burn.

It's a shame really...I enjoyed watching AOTS before Olivia Munn declared herself too big and went to suck at the Daily Show/other things...and with Adam and Kevin leaving, the network's officially dead. RIP G4, thanks for providing us with some decent video game coverage on TV...before 2009.

And the world will not notice. Or care.

You know something has gone horribly wrong when your mother starts watching COPS reruns on a channel originally for gamers. (granted she is a Star Trek: TNG fan, but still.)

@TheRico People must love them some COPS reruns. And awful reality shows about mostly drunk idiots.

Oh no, what a tragedy. I'm so upset. Oh wait, I haven't gotten this channel in years anyway and, when I did, I only ever watched it for E3 coverage which was slowly being transferred over to Spike in recent years.

X-Play was good, but I lost interest in the channel long before Sessler and Klepek left.

only thing i will miss is sara underwood and here outfits. only thing on cable that still gives me a boner.

G4 became so, so awful around 2007. Back in 2004 and before, it was my favorite channel. After that, it easily became my most hated.

When Sarah Lane left she got replaced with Olivia Munn, got taken off of basic cable (so you had to pay extra to see them), they put that blond actress on Filter and made the show's subject matters worthless, they cancelled Cinematech, stopped showing anime and Icons, cut back on Xplay showings and made them formulaic as crap, accepted money for reviews (I can't see that Crysis 2 review which plays during commercials being anything else; lost a lot of respect for Sessler because of it), played infomercials until about 1PM, and most of all they NEVER STOPPED PLAYING COPS. Seriously, what backwards executive made the decision to never show anything but Cops? Who would watch that everyday all day? I honestly think if you randomly chose someone off the street with no experience in channel management whatsoever, they would have a high likelihood of doing a better job. Oh, and then mocking people who wanted MML3; then begging viewers to tell Charter to take them back the next day.

I don't think anybody's mentioned Code Monkeys yet, though it looks like a lot of people left before its premiere.

So I'm just going to leave a quick vigil for Code Monkeys. You were utterly stupid, but one of the few shows that got me to laugh out loud in those days. The memory of Cock Goblin will remain forever in our hearts.

Sigh.. I still miss Tech TV.. I really wish G4 never existed in the first place, so they never bought them out. That channel was perfect as it was.

Really, the fact that they never opened their eyes and saw they needed to go back to the "all tech, all the time" format, really shows how piss-fucking-poor-stupid the execs at that channel are, and how no one should hire them ANYWHERE.

@VGFreak1225

I always hated Code Monkeys. It was like a bad webcomic in video form.

Code Monkeys was awful. Everything but X Play was pretty bad really. Attack of the Show was just eh

Code Monkeys was the only reason I ever watched g4, that and E3.

This is the way G4 ends.

Not with a bang, but with a wimper.

To be fair, Cinematech would be pointless now that we have youtube.