G4 Cancels Videogame Programming

[likalaruku]

Those were the only things I even watched on that channel. Though I stopped watching maybe 2 years ago.

I fully support A La Carte Cable; if you're not watching that channel, it shouldn't be sucking up any of your money.

 

[Oro44]

G4 has been dying a slow death for quite some time now. I think the core group (Kevin, Olivia and Adam) saw it coming and jumped ship, it was going downhill already but without them, its just a lifeless channel. This is for the best.

 

[Bagged Milk]

I got sick of the Cops reruns with the Army propaganda commercials years ago. Xplay was amazing, then they completely stopped making jokes (the xplay musical was the greatest thing ever). AotS was pretty decent, but then DirecTV got rid of G4.

 

[Darks63]

It about time they finally gave up the ghost, most folks quit on the channel when it became the cops/cheaters channel.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

10-1 it goes hipster douchebag reality tv programming. Just saying...

 

[dyre]

Ok I have to ask, WTF is G4? I know they were a channel but all I ever heard about them was that they played all that ninja stuff, I never knew they did anything with videogames.

This, please. I know G4 was a videogame related channel or something like that. But honestly, that's all I know. Where do they transmit it? Is it online only? Is it like HBO where you have to pay extra to get it?

I wouldn't mind checking it out at least for a while to either confirm how much it sucks or contradict people's opinions. I mean, all I have videogame related on my TV is...Spike TV. And it shouldn't even count!

When they were founded (early 2000s, I think), they were a channel dedicated completely to video games, and from my memory (perhaps somewhat nostalgia coated, dunno), a lot of the hosts of the various shows on that channel actually seemed genuinely interested in gaming. But after they merged with TechTV, they decided to become a "men's stuff" channel, which apparently meant cutting 90% of the video game related shows they had and replacing them with COPS, Cheaters, Ninja Warrior (not that I don't like Ninja Warrior), and random movies. They've since been dropped by a bunch of cable providers and no one really cares about them anymore. It's just sad to see the final nails in the coffin, I guess.

 

[Radoh]

Considering I've always thought of G4 as a networked version of the SpikeTV VGAs, I'm neither surprised nor upset that this is happening.

 

[silversnake4133]

Hey G4, if you ever decide to stop imitating Spike television, us gamers would really like our old programs back. It was supposed to be a channel for "gamers" not "testosterone-fueled man children".

 

[RatRace123]

I know that it's been a sham of its former self for years, but dammit, I still have fond memories of G4 in the mid 2000s back when it still had lots of gaming shows on.

I hardly knew ye G4, but you did keep teenaged me entertained, so for that I do thank you.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

It wasn't hard to see that G4 was in for a change/destruction, seeing as all they had left on of their games and tech stuff was X-Play and AOTS. I never understood why all the different gaming type shows disappeared off there, considering that was what the channel was suppose to be about.

Edit: Actually, DirectTV dropped G4 a couple of years ago, so Comcast is the only one that still has it.

My dad has Dish Network and he has G4, so it isn't just on Comcast.

 

[antipunt]

There's a reason why whenever review scores are brought up, there's the saying "lol xplay"

 

[knight4light]

honestly. i saw it coming. for gaming news and reviews its much better to find it online. Destructoid. The escapist (duh). The game stations totalbiscuit even said one time that while he was obviously recording and doing an interview at pax the x-play girl comes up and says "we're ready to interview you now" thinking that they were the top. when told tb was recording shes all "can you tell him to come back later" to which she gets promply told to go away by the dev. then tb says taht g4 is so out of the loop that their "most recent coverage" is days after pax and that his stuff would get uploaded long before theirs does.

ah.. the cynical brit. always (almost) reliable xD. escapist as well. gotta have dem zero punctuations

 

[Jfswift]

... People care about G4?

In all seriousness, I'm not surprised they're going the route of MTV.

Ninja'd (haha yea I was thinking the same thing. I don't really watch g4 or MTV anymore).

 

[Fijiman]

I stopped really caring about G4 even before Direct TV dropped it. It was decent when it still aired it's own shows (even if most of those were years old reruns they were still good), but once it need to rely on COPS and Cheaters in order to kill time between anything decent it practically shot itself in the foot and never went to get it fixed.

 

[Bat Vader]

That is sad. I never cared for G4 all that much. Seeing as how they got rid of Cory Rouse from Cheat which was a terrible thing to do. I also hated how they got rid of Judgement Day and other good shows.

 

[eharriett]

X-Play is responsible for me getting heavily into games. Since it was dropped from DirecTv, I haven't been able to watch it except on Hulu. I was sad to see Sessler leave, and I haven't seen him anywhere else yet, I hope he stays in game journalism. I hope he continues his long teamup with Morgan Webb. They had excellent chemistry together and hopefully a strong partnership that can continue without G4.

I always thought the two of them should move the show to either TWiT or CNET.

 

[faefrost]

Sigh! I still haven't forgiven the idiotically managed and appalingly prone to demeaning pandering that is (was) G4 for buying out and looting TechTV, which actually had good programming.

 

[vid87]

I knew this day would come eventually but somehow it still feels too soon. I loved X-play from its early days and I've watched it through pretty much all of its studio changes and iterations. It was nice that Sessler broke his type-casting as the goof and got to talk candidly about major issues in and outside gaming. I wish him and Morgan the best and hope to see them somewhere soon.

BTW, is anyone else confused how out of everyone on that network Olivia Munn, who I'm pretty sure had one of the shortest runs, is the breakout "mainstream" star?

 

[Adventurer2626]

It's been slowly dying over the past decade. This is just the final twitch before death. My tears were shed a long time ago. It's time to move onto bigger and better things.

 

[lord.jeff]

Ok I have to ask, WTF is G4? I know they were a channel but all I ever heard about them was that they played all that ninja stuff, I never knew they did anything with videogames.

They used to be the nerd channel essentially several shows focused on games and the web such as shows like Screensaver, a do it yourself type of show for computers, Unscrewed, a late night talk show that focused on a lot on web stars and a few porn stars(same thing in most cases) as well as a few video game review shows other then X Play, plus they were the only channel other then Cartoon Network that regularly played anime.