G4 Rewind

A few weeks ago we reported that Scot Rubin was leaving his daily gaming talk show, All Games Interactive, for greener, yet mysterious pastures.

Early this morning Scot revealed that he was REJOINING G4 the new VP of Marketing for the Championship Gaming Series!

It's true I am now the VP of Marketing over at The CGS. I didn't take it just to be some suit at a pro gaming league. The CGS is owned by DirecTV, BSkyB, Star Asia and has just hired my former favorite G4 colleague Dale Hopkins as CEO. Dale and I were the first 2 people to develop G4 and she is one of the smartest, most energetic, hard working people i've ever met. If only the CEO at G4 let us run the place... But I digress. We are currently working hard to answer questions about the league, the teams, the games, the image, and the future of what pro/competitive gaming should be.

As we all saw in July, the CGS is a great production and has already made great leaps for competitive and team gaming, it can only get better with Mr Soul Patch onboard.

-KnuxSonic

SpikeTV, the network that formerly advertised itself as TV for Men, seems to be taking aim at the network that formerly advertised itself as TV 4 Gamers.

Spike announced the promotion of ex-G4TV.com host and gaming journalist guru Geoff Keighley to an executive position at Spike which would allow Spike to grow their gaming content on their channel, including more game-specific launch specials, weekly wrap up style shows and the expansion of the VGA's, which are becoming "more gamer oriented and less Hollywood."

"This executive promotion allows me to be more strategic in what I do," added Keighley. "What we want to do here is that we have this cohesive unit and a 365 day coverage and now I have all the resources of MTV to promote these games in the biggest way possible. That's what excites me, and I give a lot of credit to Spike and their commitment on video games."

Keighley will continue to host the weekly GameTrailers TV which airs late Friday nights in addition to his new job.

"I say this to gamers reading this: please support this content and let us know what you want to see! We want to be the network for game related content and we can't do it without you guys!"

A very interesting move indeed, could this signal a shift by Spike to become a gaming-oriented network? What could be more interesting is G4's reaction to a much bigger network moving in on their territory.

Either way, congrats to Geoff who is quickly becoming "kind of a big deal!"

Thanks to forum member Tiki for finding this story! Click here to read the full story at GameDaily, then click here to discuss this story in our forums.

-KnuxSonic

For 13 years, Scot Rubin has hosted some type of daily gaming show in some form or another but last Friday was his last, at least for now.

Rubin, host of the daily "All Games Interactive" show and former host of G4tv.com announced last Wednesday that he was leaving the show for a new unnamed job. While Rubin did say the job was connected to the games industry and an amazing opportunity, he was not able to reveal any details.

Rubin assured that the All Games site, 24/7 web stream and AGI itself would continue and that he will remain at All Games, just not behind the mic. He did speculate on some type of weekly show later on.

So what is this new mystery job? G4 Rewind is crossing it's fingers for a G4 2.0!

-KnuxSonic