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 coming to the Sci-Fi Channel, called "GameQuest."
In this terribly named show, 12 contestants go head-to-head in various videogame challenges in an effort to find the best all-around gamer in the United States. That doesn't sound too bad, but Reuters reports that "physical challenges that bring video games to life" are also involved. Yikes!
"With two out of every three American households playing video games, it's clear that this mainstream phenomenon is a perfect arena for the channel's agenda of broadening the brand while celebrating imagination," Sci Fi channel president Dave Howe said.
In the end, a final contestant will win a prize package that includes $100,000 and trips to future World Cyber Games events. GameQuest is set to premiere in the first quarter of 2009.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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12:03 PM on 10.30.2008
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This may be unintentionally funny for an episode, but yeah, what CarlCastello said.
Sounds like a good deal to me
Wait... is that a GIRL? A girl who plays video games? Surely this must be fake.
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