I've been watching Geoff Keighley host the show GameHead, which I heard about on a podcast.
The show isnt half bad. In fact, I learned some stuff and enjoyed watching it. It also got me wondering why there havent been any TV shows about video games?
I can understand that watching people play games isn't the most exciting thing but watching game demo's is perfect for TV. Instead of downloading that 1.5GB demo, why not watch some footage on TV?
I would enjoy that and it is basically a gameplay commercial which should appeal to advertisers. Sounds like a win-win, to me. Maybe it isnt an entire show by itself but it seems like there ought to be some video game content on TV somewhere.
As I mentioned the show is pretty good with one caveat: focus. Instead of showing a 10 minute story, they break it up into 15 second bits and show it over the entire 30 minute show. Holy A.D.D., batman! If kids today cannot focus for 10 minutes, we should be fighting that not encouraging it.
(Another caveat is their website. I hate websites that blow my CPU with unnecessary video and flashy-bits. Sheesh.)
