G4 Rewind

Old news, I know, but you can listen to Kevin Pereira on the Adam Carolla Show via the links below. They mostly talk about the iPhone, cell phones in general, TiVO and they call G4 "The Thinking Man's Spike TV." Kudos the guy that called in and said Olivia was hot, I'm glad I'm not the biggest loser on the planet, yet.

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-KnuxSonic

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What have they done? E3 is over and gamers everywhere sigh a collective "meh" as the convention was a shadow of it's former self. While most journalists agreed it was much easier to navigate, few agreed it was "better." No megatons, no killer apps... really just a bunch of pretty decent games.

As for G4, they even packed it up early and went back to the studio on day 3. Their coverage made E3 LOOK much better than it actually was, even being called out by their own Victor Lucas in "The Loop." Engadget also reported that G4's booth space was probably larger than Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft's space combined. And with many games being spread out over half a dozen hotels being shown in tiny rooms on tiny screens, who can really get all that excited?

As for their coverage, it was about as decent as you could expect. I know a lot of people are giving them flack for airing ads, especially during the press conferences, but honestly, we're lucky they even AIRED them. E3 is probably their highest (or WAS) ratings period of the year and for them NOT to air ads would be financially outrageous. I was pretty miffed that they didn't even bother to stick around for day 3, but from what I hear, there wasn't much else to see. The Stickam reactions were a nice nod to the community, but generally watered down and low quality.

For the upside for G4, Chris Gore flexed his gaming muscle with his reports, Joel Gourdin is (hopefully) slowly ousting Layla Kayleigh, Geoff Keighley returns to the network and G4 announced Electric Playground would be back.

As for next year, let's hope E3 returns to it's roots, or doesn't return at all.

-KnuxSonic

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Hot out of E3, G4 has announced that Electric Playground, which was dropped from G4 over a year ago, will be returning this summer, but ONLY to G4tv.com.

Not sure if this is due to some agreement with another network (See: G4 Canada) or if G4 just doesn't want to air it on the network, but regardless, it's great to see G4 bringing gaming back. More details as they arrive.

-KnuxSonic

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Yeah you read that right, G4 seems to be quietly airing the premiere of the latest Harry Potter movie's red carpet premiere on Monday at 8PM EST. You can only find it in their schedule, I haven't seen any ads or anything for it, strangely enough (maybe I just missed them) but for the few of you that love T&A, Harry Potter, COPS reruns and the occasional video game, I'm sure you're just jumping for joy right about now. I'm not sure why it's on the down-low, maybe G4 is a little ashamed of this themselves?

Here's the official text:
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" Presented by G4
From the red-carpet premiere. Includes behind the scenes footage, interviews with author J.K. Rowling and the cast in London, plus exclusive clips of the film.

For those of you that just don't care, here's Emma Watson already starting on her future alcohol dependency problem.

-KnuxSonic

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After a very short stint, G4's ambassador to the fans is already moving on to "another project on another network" and will be replaced by SOMEONE, however we don't know her name yet, only this photo from a random AOTS clip.

Seems a little strange that it was such a short stint but let's hope G4 continues this program.

-KnuxSonic

Proscribed's Update: The "mystery chick" is Dana Vinson, who's been working in G4's web team for the last year or so. Mystery solved. :P

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Min-E3 kicks off next week and while it will undoubtedly be the lamest E3 ever, G4 is easing the pain and will air Microsoft's, Nintendo's and Sony's traditional opening day press conferences LIVE! No more buffering and rebuffering tiny, low resolution streams off of GameSpot or IGN. In all G4 is doing about 17 hours of coverage, which is pretty good considering that's about how many square feet the convention is.

July 10th:
9PM: E3 Preview
11PM: Microsoft Press Conference

July 11:
12PM: Sony Press Conference
2PM: Nintendo Press Conference
6PM: AOTS @ E3 Live

July 12th & 13th:
6PM: AOTS @ E3 Live

Please support gaming on G4 and watch, especially these live events that are going to be on mid-day when no one's watching and which will probably have to be commercial free. G4techTV Canada will be airing G4's live feed so you Canadian viewers can tune in as well.

-KnuxSonic

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G4 has a struck a deal with Break.com to post an early screening of the first episode of Code Monkeys, set to begin airing July 11th at 9pm on G4 with back to back episodes. The Code Monkeys website has also launched, but right now many of the features are "coming soon" but check back closer to the premiere to watch videos, get downloads, and participate in live chat, among other site features.

After viewing the pilot, I can't really give a definite good or bad review, rather it was full of funny bits and bits where it fell flat on it's face. There were lots of little inside jokes that gamers would get, but then lots of humor that seemed like it was targeted to half-baked college dropouts (OMG DRUG REFERENCES!).

We'll have to see a few more episodes, but at least the animation looks really good and stays true to the 8-bit style.

Click the jump to view the first episode.

-KnuxSonic

Full Episode (Unparted, video quality not as good as the parted episode).

Code Monkeys Episode 1 Full - Watch more free videos

Full Episode (In 4 parts, video quality is slightly better)

Code Monkeys Episode 1 Part 1 - Watch more free videos

Code Monkeys Episode 1 Part 2 - Watch more free videos

Code Monkeys Episode 1 Part 3 - Watch more free videos

Code Monkeys Episode 1 Part 4 - Watch more free videos

Remember, these videos are only up till July 11th so watch 'em now. Or whenever. Or not.

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