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 Neal Tiles.
"I'm excited to announce that X-Play will expand to one full hour each weekend night for month of December," he wrote in a recent online Q&A, "as we take a look at all the holiday releases and look forward to 2009 titles."
He continues to say that the expanded show will be a test, and if the show experiences growth, may become permanent moving in to 2009. G4 currently airs new half-hour episodes daily.
Personally, I've always been a fan of the show, which may or may not be one of the last surviving pieces of G4 programming that truly gets videogames. Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb both know their stuff (no really, trust me ... they do), and they've gotten a fair amount of solid exclusives lately that definitely make the show worth watching.
Now, what's up with G4 going high-definition? There's a ball, Comcast ... get on it. I know high-definition videogame footage would make me want to watch a show more; what about you guys?
[Thanks, Greg!]
but then again, i'm quite sad G4 is still around after the complete shift years ago...and people have the nerve to say it's a good gaming channel.
Not true: confirmed!
I can't see exactly why people hate on that show so much. I understand about the station being completely teabagged those few years ago with with Tech TV show, Kevin Ross, and the like leaving but X-Play has been hanging on and still being hated on no matter how much they prove that they actually play games...
I say give the show more time.
I'm also going to say that I like Attack of the Show but I like Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn is hot. I definitely watch the show more for comedy than any sort of gaming relevance (which it has pretty much none).
As far as I've seen, Since the revamped X-Play there have been A LOT LESS filler... I hardly see any of the interns and whatnot even mentioned anymore. When was the last time you watched the show?
In general, I forgot to mention I watch AotS as well. Kevin cracks me up, and Olivia is pretty to look at (Though I love Layla a whole lot better)... and even that new blonde chick (I forget her name, sorry) is awesome. Blair add a nice touch, and Chris Hardwick is awesome (guess that's everybody on the damn show...)
I started watching Freaky and the Peter S show and they haven't really dissapointed me yet.
Morgan and Olivia annoy the fuck out of me. Morgan with her voice and Olivia with her stupidity.
That said.
Sessler and Pereira should have their own gaming show.
Morgan and Olivia should have their own Do-Something-Hot Show.
On today's show we'll talk about A B and C! Here's Morgan to talk about A. - Hi, let's talk about A! (cue intro) - Actual segment.
So I asked Adam Sessler for a picture and he was cool with it. But when I asked Morgan Webb, she asked what it was for. So I told that I just wanted to get my picture taken with people that I am fans of. She said fine, but also mentioned that she doesn't like having her picture taken by people because she is afraid it will get photoshopped with something sexual explicit and put up on the net...
Sorry for the long-winded post. I'm not trying to trash on Morgan Webb, she wasn't a total bitch anything. Just relaying a story.
So I asked Adam Sessler for a picture and he was cool with it. But when I asked Morgan Webb, she asked what it was for. So I told that I just wanted to get my picture taken with people that I am fans of. She said fine, but also mentioned that she doesn't like having her picture taken by people because she is afraid it will get photoshopped with something sexual explicit and put up on the net...
Sorry for the long-winded post. I'm not trying to trash on Morgan Webb, she wasn't a total bitch anything. Just relaying a story.
can't really argue with that, but i still can't shake that feeling...
I think she is valid in her concern. People do some pretty shifty things and I can totally see someone saying their a fan and then pasting some photoshop'ed nuuuuuudddeeezzz on the intranetz
On another note, Adam Sessler is the gaming man as far as I'm concerned. :-) I've seen him in interveiws, and on plenty of other G4 things, and he really does seem to ENJOY being a gamer. He plays, he likes. He's enthusiastic in his comments, and you can tell her really has a passion for the gaming industry. G4 (or any gaming programming) needs more hosts like Adam to spread around. Morgn, while hot, I find pretty MEH when it comes to the gaming side. I could be wrong, but she just doesn't seem to put the spirit into the business that Adam does, I think. Kevin and AOTS are okay, but they've moved a lot away from gaming/tech and on to stupid YouTube videos, etc. The show just has seemed to lose a lot of the focus it used to have, in my own opinion. Which is a shame, because AOTS was one of only 3 shows I really used to watch on G4: AOTS, X-Play, and Ninja Warrior (who doesn't love ninja's in training?). Now, AOTS is pretty much replaced with Unbeatable Banzuke! Love that show. :)
G4: Where you can get regurgitated re-runs of Ninja Warrior, Cops (2.0!), and that Unbeatable "Ride BMX & Toy Helicopters & do Handstands" show, to complement the completely terrible coverage of the industry.
G4 needs some quality competition to light a fire under their ass.