Gameswipe FTW
29 09 2009Just thought I’d post a quick FYI for all of those gamers that read this blog from time to time.
What I anticipate to be a rather interesting program airs tonight that should contribute to the on-going debate over the health and effect of computer gaming and the treatment of those gamers by society. This particular show should be of most interest to people who like their documentaries with a sarcastically honest edge, as it has been compiled by one Mr Charlie Brooker, he of Screenwipe and more recently Newswipe fame. The televisualation will air tonight at 10pm on BBC4 and will most likely be available via iPlayer soon thereafter.
For those of you who aren’t aware, this also comes as a timely riposte to an ITV “documentary” which went to screen last week. That particular piece of pseudo science, reactionary drivel followed three children over three years, in what was laughably referred to as an “experiment”, to see how these kiddies dealt with videogames in their lives and what affects they might have. Apart from proving that individuals with various social disorders should be wary of the dangers of over indulgence in the electronic arts*, it also displayed the journalistic integrity of a hobo standing an a box reading aloud from an upside down copy of The Daily Star by relating every behavioural problem they could find to avid video gaming. My personal best was 7 minutes continuous viewing, before having to pause again and take deep breathes to assuage my frustration and outright anger at some of the crazy claims and bulls**t statistics used to justify them.
I’d urge everyone to try and watch the above travesty (available here on ITV’s website for a time) in preparation for tonight’s undoubtedly superior observational piece on a phenomenon of our times.
Watch, record or iPlayer Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe or thou shalt be full of lose…
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Also mark in your calendars “Micro Men” on BBC4 Thursday 8th of October at 9pm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2009/wk40/thu.shtml#thu_micromen
(Scroll to the bottom.)
“Martin Freeman (The Office) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller) star in this single drama which provides an affectionately comic account of the race for home computer supremacy in the Eighties.”
Also the ITV vid doesn’t work for me, I just get a black rectangle where I assume the video should be. Oh well.
Yeah, there was an advert for that around the Gameswipe show. Looks interesting and amusing, which is usually a good mix :o)
Also, probably best the ITV thing doesn’t work, it’s a complete…. well I think I already made my feelings clear. Think their shows are only up for a week though, so it may have been taken down.