It’s not an exaggeration to say that an era ended yesterday. G4 aired its last episode of X-Play with popular commentator Adam Sessler as co-host on Wednesday, just hours after Kotaku reported that Adam Sessler would no longer be working at the network.
This ad for Gunnar’s Retweet to Win-This Giveaway has me wondering if Gunnar’s gaming eyewear comes in an opaque variant. I’d rather not see anything anymore. That Sessler is a far braver man than I.
Deep cuts have hit G4′s flagship show X-Play, sources tell us, and the five-day-a-week program has been cut back to three times a week.
A couple of weeks back, I climbed on a soapbox about the media frenzy surrounding video games in connection with real life violence or tragedy.
Adam Sessler was kind enough to invite me on to X-Play today to talk about the year in games with Dan Hsu.
Weren’t those G-Phoria awards exciting last night? I was on the edge of my seat the entire time! Okay, I was at Walmart buying cat litter, but I did brush precariously close to some seats in the office furniture section. So what did I miss? Nintendo getting shut out of every award except best racing game for Mario Kart Wii for one…an award it really didn’t deserve. Rock Band and Grand Theft Auto IV each came away with three awards, with Metal Gear Solid 4 and Call of Duty 4 taking home two each. For those keeping track, that’s seven awards to games that were number four in their respective series. It was a year of damn fine sequels, wasn’t it? Turok walked away with the coveted Uwe Boll Film Award, which seems far more fitting than Skate winning Best Sports Game.
Keep in mind that these awards are all voted on by viewers, so the Game of the Year Award winner should be a pretty good indicator of the sort of audience G4 has left after they hacked away most of the good bits. And the winner is…Halo 3. Really. Hit the jump for the full awards listing.
It’s here, it’s here! It’s finally here! Tonight at 8PM Eastern time, X=Play presents G-Phoria 2008, the only video game awards show where the gamers vote for their favourite titles. Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb will be putting their personal opinions aside and let the viewers decide which games deserve the awards, from the lowly Best Downloadable Content to the possibly highly coveted Game of the Year. They’ve even got a Game Most Deserving of an Uwe Boll Movie Adaptation award! Hilarity ensues.
You can head over to the G-Phoria website to cast your vote, or they’ve got an option to vote via text message in case you don’t have access to the internet or just really enjoy typing with your thumb. Hit the jump for the full list of award categories.
X-Play co-host Adam Sessler joined Neal Conan on the NPR radio show Talk of the Nation earlier today to talk about the recent release of Grand Theft Auto IV. While the majority of the segment seemed to focus on relating GTA IV player experiences and informing the NPR audience on the realities, less so the media fantasies, of all things Grand Theft Auto, it took a dive about seven minutes in. That’s when John “Jack” Thompson phoned in to drop his special brand of disinformation.
I went up to Denver today to tape some segments for X-Play about GTA 4. One or two, like the one above, will be popping up online tonight but the bulk of it will be showing up on their one hour special about the game tonight. If you want to turn it into a drinking game, take a drink every time I say GTA and TEN drinks when I accidentally refer to Rockstar’s game as Gran Turismo. Smoooooooth move Brian. In my defence, or maybe theirs, neither N’Gai Croal nor Adam Sessler seemed to notice the mistake.
We’ve touched on the subject before and have even come to the same conclusion, but there’s something charming about X-Play’s Adam Sessler delivery of the material in this instalment of Sessler’s Soapbox. Perhaps the best thing about these segments is that this is exactly how a conversation with Sessler goes in real life, only with varying degrees of slurring depending on how late at night it is. I still remember the first time I met him, when he put his arm across my shoulders and said…um. Well I couldn’t quite make it out. The point here is Sessler kicks arse, regardless of whether you can make out what he’s saying or not.
