rikwakefield
Born to be Mild
I second that. I have watched every single one, on the Wednesday it comes out. I even call it Zero Punctuation Wednesday as a joke.
Fuck me. That's pretty sad when I think about it.
Gameswipe - Charlie Brooker
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I second that. I have watched every single one, on the Wednesday it comes out. I even call it Zero Punctuation Wednesday as a joke.
Fuck me. That's pretty sad when I think about it.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
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Charlie Brooker’s TV gaming show, Gameswipe, is due to air in the UK next week.
The show, in which former games journo Brooker takes a sardonic look at the games industry, is due to air on BBC4 next Tuesday 29th September at 10:00 pm.
Tthe show will be repeated on the following three nights at 1:50am (Wednesday night), 11:20pm (Thursday) and 3:00pm (Friday).
The bad news is that the show is reportedly a one-off and no series has yet been commissioned by the BBC. Come on Big British Castle, it’s time to stop being scared of video games.
The 50-minute long Gameswipe will feature Dom Joly antagonizing hardocore gamers online and contributions from Graham Linehan (co-creator of Father Ted) and Dara O'Briain. Gameswipe will premiere as part of BBC4's forthcoming Electric Revolution season, which takes a look at how technology has shaped our lives over the past 50 years.
Gameswipe will follow the format set down by predecessors Screenwipe and Newswipe, and is likely to be an anger-fuelled tongue-in-cheek look at the modern market.
Charlie Brooker’s TV gaming show, Gameswipe, is due to air in the UK next week.
The show, in which former games journo Brooker takes a sardonic look at the games industry, is due to air on BBC4 next Tuesday 29th September at 10:00 pm.
Tthe show will be repeated on the following three nights at 1:50am (Wednesday night), 11:20pm (Thursday) and 3:00pm (Friday).
The bad news is that the show is reportedly a one-off and no series has yet been commissioned by the BBC. Come on Big British Castle, it’s time to stop being scared of video games.
The 50-minute long Gameswipe will feature Dom Joly antagonizing hardocore gamers online and contributions from Graham Linehan (co-creator of Father Ted) and Dara O'Briain. Gameswipe will premiere as part of BBC4's forthcoming Electric Revolution season, which takes a look at how technology has shaped our lives over the past 50 years.
Gameswipe will follow the format set down by predecessors Screenwipe and Newswipe, and is likely to be an anger-fuelled tongue-in-cheek look at the modern market.
joustmaster
offcumdun
better than games master?
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
As undoubtedly awesome as Games Master was when I was 15 and thought that Dominik Diamond was funny rather than a twat, I'm not so sure that I'd think it was so great today.
cliche guevara
Well-Known Member
I got all excited, thinking this was tonight. It isn't. There's my plans shot to shit.
Augie March
blahem
*opens iplayer and starts hitting the refresh button expectantly
kained&able
Here for the football.
Isn't it tonight?
cliche guevara
Well-Known Member
It certainly is.
cliche guevara
Well-Known Member
Is this a series then? Cos, although that was undoubtedly fantastic, he seemed to cover the entire history of video games.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I've literally only just put two and two together and realised that they're the same person.
It took me a while to realise that TV Go Home was by the same guy as off the telly and in the paper too
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Whilst the Beeb ponder whether to make this into a series, you may find Angry Video Game Nerd a surprisingly good alternative.
hey it's Sad Man Calls Wednesday Zero Punctuation Wednesday Wednesday!I second that. I have watched every single one, on the Wednesday it comes out. I even call it Zero Punctuation Wednesday as a joke.
Fuck me. That's pretty sad when I think about it.
Anyway, I agree entirely with Dara O Brian about access to content. Especially when it comes to content that you've already purchased (because you own the disc) but have to pay extra to access under the hideous concept that is Downloadable Content. This shit is getting ridiculous.
rikwakefield
Born to be Mild
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Please let them make a series, please please please.
That was me and my life of gaming. Even down to the bit where CB pauses COD5 mid-flaming, has a slurp of coke, grunts and goes back in. Not to mention everything else about it.
Fucking excellent, altho I suspect that reaction will be most prevelant among a certain strata of males aged 30-45...
That was me and my life of gaming. Even down to the bit where CB pauses COD5 mid-flaming, has a slurp of coke, grunts and goes back in. Not to mention everything else about it.
Fucking excellent, altho I suspect that reaction will be most prevelant among a certain strata of males aged 30-45...
elevendayempire
Registered Loofah
I agreed with everything Dara O Briain said; I've still never bothered to open up the second island on Vice City, for Christ's sake...
El Sueno
Dabbler
I got very nostalgic looking at those old Spectrum games, and seeing old Jeff Minter's Llamasoft getting a look in. I'd be happy if they would dedicate a whole series just to the 1982-1986 era; the rise and demise of Imagine software, Speccy va Commodore 64, the developments little UK companies like Ultimate/Rare made etc... oh thems were the days when any kid could code a silly game and get a contract with a major software company.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
He was wrong on at least one detail tho: Maria wasn't Willy's wife, she was his housekeeper. He also didn't mention that JSW only came about because of Miner Willy's exploits in Manic Miner...
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Yeah I noticed that. I think the JSW stuff was probably written by a researcher
El Sueno
Dabbler
I remember the day everyone got JSW, having trawled through the extensively colour-coded security entrace exam, we were all ringing each other up on our house phones exclaiming; "OMG, have you got to the room with the SWINGING ROPE yet?!"
Still preferred Manic Miner at the end of the day. From what I remember Eugene's Lair, the screen with the toilets in it, was a reference to young Bug-Byte programming 'sensation' Eugene Evans, who left to join Imagine and ended up never getting one single game published and on the shelves. Toilet imagary? Interesting metaphor perhaps..!
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Yeah I noticed that. I think the JSW stuff was probably written by a researcher
Also, his use of 'renaissance' to describe the surge in home-coding...since renaissance means 'rebirth' that's 2 mistakes. Grrr
I thought the points made about Driver vs GTA were spot on. The former is a classic and that lack of detail in GTA 9ie being able to run people over) is exactly what makes you feel like it's just a game.
that fifty cent game looks like the biggest piece of turd going. As does the man. I'm almost tempted to buy it so I myself can see how many times I can put the man to death.
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