One of the more surprising announcements of Comic-Con (the 2020 streaming version) came from one of its advertisements. It depicts a dark warehouse lit only by the flicker of an ancient CRT, which is playing a disembodied game of Pong controlled by no one. The picture glitches, and we suddenly get…the G4 logo, along with the words “We never stopped playing” and a date of 2021.
Reports of this video are now all over the Internet, but the dirty secret is, none of us know what it means. G4 was a cable TV channel created in 2002 devoted to video game news. After a controversial merge with the more sophisticated TechTV, G4 banished the latter’s programming and became the exclusive home of gamer-centric programs like X-Play and Attack Of The Show. Actress Olivia Munn made her public debut as a G4 host…after leaving for Hollywood she was replaced by Morgan Webb.
G4 departed in 2014 after years of declining ratings and availability (most cable packages had dropped it by that year). The...
