E3 Live – Every year in it’s existence, G4 has devoted an entire week to cover E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Typically G4′s shows travel to the expo center to do on-location reports, interviews and demos. G4′s headline shows (now AOTS and X-Play) usually air their episodes for that week live on the show floor. Starting in 2007, G4 begin airing Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony’s entire press conferences live. In the past, G4 has also hosted round table discussion shows with various industry experts and G4 hosts talking about their E3 expectations.

GameMakers – Not to be confused with show “Icons” that was renamed “GameMakers,” the GameMakers G4 Specials were half hour features that followed the development of a game’s production. Typically the special would be shown around the time the featured game was released to consumers. Some episodes have even been packaged with video games, such as FASA’s MechAssault 2 on Xbox.

Although billed as a live show, some viewers questioned whether or not some scenes were pre-recorded, or the entire show itself, as G4 supposedly aired two live versions of the show, one for each coast. It was reported that the west coast airing was simply a recording of the original east coast airing with the codes and winner’s names replaced, however this was never confirmed. The hosts also did not ever mention winners by name, rather, their names were simply displayed on screen near the end of the program. G4 attributed this the show being on a 7 second delay.