I can feel the writter of that article trying to contain the hate he has for G4...and I don't blame him a single bit.
I miss the old TechTV. I would usually turn on the TV and that is the only channel I would watch. They had a sense of variety, even for a technology channel, with The Screen Savers being the predominant show followed by Call for Help. Extended Play was one of the few reviews, nay, the only review show I respected. But then came the Comcast buyout and the forced-merger of G4 and TechTV: One of the worst decisions in network history.
The audience of G4, especially the producers, completely butchered TechTV. First layoffs, then complete removal of unique TechTV shows. It pissed me off to quite an extenet, untill they decided to remove The Screen Savers. That was it...
X-Play was just a former shell of what Extended Play used used to be, especially without Kate Botello. Iin my opinion, Kate was more knowledgeable in the field than Morgan would ever hope to be. No offense to Morgan, as the writter said, she was Screen Savers staff, but Morgan was better at PCs as to Kate is better at videogames.
I've been hearing some positive stuff about this "new" X-Play recently, but I can't help but feel, somewhere around the corner, the evil Tommy Talarico is watching...
(That said, it's good that they don't show the complete Zero Punctuation review. I feel they might force to sanitize it the same way they did with EgoRaptor's "Awsome" series.)