Sunday 9 August 2009

Ex-MTV Boss Targets Games TV (Update)


I just found the following over at MCVUK, sounds very interesting but i have never seen it advertised on TV.

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I've just had a look on the bravo website and found that GameFace and Ginx Files are on today (Sunday 9th of August 2009) see pic below.


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Peter Einstein launches new games-focused show Game Face on Bravo

The former president of MTV Europe is looking to turn his company into a games equivalent of the music channel – as it launches a games-focused new show.

Game Face kicked off on Bravo last weekend. The show was created by Ginx TV, which was founded by former MTV boss Peter Einstein.

Game Face includes reviews and is presented by Julia Hardy. The show is broadcast in various prime time slots on Bravo’s channels, and followed international weekly review show The Ginx Files.

“I believe that the viewing figures for Game Face will build over time as gamers find the show and look forward to connecting with us each week to enjoy what’s going on in their gaming world,” Einstein told MCV.

As well as working with partners such as Bravo, Ginx TV describes itself as being ‘the first international 24/7 TV channel that turns video gaming into mainstream entertainment TV’.

Added Einstein: “There could be multiple reasons that games TV shows have failed in the past – which could even be linked to management, cost overruns, not just necessarily the channel format.

“From what we’ve seen in the past a lot of the focus has been more outside of the games, with presenter reviews, stats, interviews with creators and only a bit about the games themselves – as one assumed that you only ‘play’ games you can’t ‘watch’ them.

“By taking the rich production values of many games today, using the story line or game objective, Ginx creates a TV production from a TV viewers point of view. We feel this concept provides a fun, entertaining TV event which is appealing mostly to the casual gamer.”

PS3 And InFamous For £229.98

I've just heard that someone picked up an 80GB PS3 with Infamous for £229.98 (£199.98+vat) from Makro in Bristol (Cribbs Causeway).They also had an 80GB PS3 with Killzone 2 for the same price.

“The one I got was on clearance from £249.98+vat and the Killzone 2 was on clearance from £229.98. Funny as they have the PS3 on it's own for £255+vat!”

Not sure if this is nationwide.
Unfortunately no sign of Killzone 2 on it's own for £11.49. That would have been a nice package!

This appears to be even more evidence that Sony have told retailers the slim is about to arrive, read this for more details.

LittleBigPlanet PSP Cover Art

Below is the official LittleBigPlanet PSP cover art.Also the games release date as not been confirmed, but Play are listing it at the 20th November this year, but Amazon are claiming the 30th October, so expect it some where around those dates.LittleBigPlanet PSP is available for pre-order at around £18 [€21] sounds like a bargin.9163411x