Morgan Webb on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - Crazy Fun with Muppets and Rappers

G4TV's Morgan Webb recently appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with other guests Ice-T and Elmo.

No, Am I not kidding ... she was on with Ice-T and the muppet, Elmo who apparently love to play videogames. Ice-T is a Call of Duty and Gears of War fan, while Elmo is only allowed to play Pac-Man.

Jimmy and Morgan checked out the new Nintendo Wii Punch-Out on the show. Apparently this is all part of Jimmy's promise to include more videogame coverage on the show.

Olivia Munn Jumps into a Giant Chocolate Pie

Last week, Olivia Munn from Attack of the Show promised she would jump into a giant chocolate pie wearing a sexy french maid costume if 50,000 people signed a petition for her to do so and apparently the people wanted pie.

I usually wouldn't post stuff like this, but this actually looked like it was fun. I would totally do this.

Electric Playground launches new show: EP Daily - UPDATED

[UPDATED: It looks like EP Daily has replaced The Lab with Leo Laporte on G4TechTV, so expect to catch the show multiple times a day. The newer episodes should be on around 6pm or 8pm and run 30mins.]

With the crappy segments Attack of the Show has been feeding us lately, G4TechTV Canada has been ripe for its own version of a daily news show tailored just for geeks to come flying in to save the ratings.

Luck for us, Victor Lucas and Greedy Productions have the answer to AOTS's epic fail and it starts today. It's called EP Daily and it's a daily news show that plans to cover the latest in gaming, comic books, movies, TV shows, gadgets, toys & collectables, conventions, animation, music, web programming, and sports.

Don't worry though about those non-geeky catergory because all topics covered in the show will be made geeky. Athletes on the show will be talking about their newest videogame and musicians will be talking about their latest song or soundtrack in the a videogame.

EP Daily will be seen 5 days a week, Electric Playground will still be on one day a week, and in the Fall, a new show called EP Canada will also be launching that will profile talented Canadian working in the gaming, entertainment and tech industry.

The shows' coverage will also be expanding as perminant crews will start popping up in places like Toronto, Los Angeles, San Franciso, Montreal, and there is already a crew in Australia.

Finally all these shows will be available on G4TechTV and CityTV in Canada, and also available on G4TV.com and through G4's On Demand service in the US.

Unfortunately G4TechTV hasn't updated their schedule yet for Monday (I'm writing this on Sunday), so I'll just have to keep your eyes peeled for the new show today like me.

Help G4TV Pick Their Game of the Year Nominees

Another year, another G-Phoria, but this time X-Play is having such a hard time picking their nominees for the Game of the Year category, they've decided to ask the viewers to help them narrow down the huge list to just a few stellar game titles.

Head over to G4TV.com to vote for your favorite game of the year now before it gets dropped off the list for some other title.

Game Titles currently in the running are:

BioShock
Grand Theft Auto IV
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Mario Galaxy
Halo 3
The Orange Box
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Assassin's Creed
Rock Band
Mass Effect
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Metal Gear Solid 4

X-Play's Face Time with Gamer Girl & Playboy's CyberGirl of 2008, Jo Garcia

G4TV got some face time with Playboy's newest CyberGirl of the Year, Jo Garcia, who just so happens to be a gamer girl too. Of course, the internet trolls came out of their caves demanding proof that this cyber vixen was really a gamer, otherwise it couldn't be true, so X-Play came to the rescue and helped Jo prove she could play with the best of them.

I think the guys at G4TV just wanted to hang out with a Playboy girl though, but I would too.

As it proved, Jo could kick butt at games like Street Fighter 2 and Mario Kart Wii, so back to your caves, internet trolls. Jo has proven bunnies can play games too.

K2: The King, the Kong, and the Ugly

G4TV is showing King of Kong, the documentary about Steve Wiebe, a man who took it upon himself to beat the world record score holder for Donkey Kong, Billy Mitchell, only to have the title ripped from him just before the release of the documentary.

X-Play had an interview with Steve Wiebe on the show this week and for fun, they created a funny trailer for the sequel for the documentary. The sequel, K2: The King, the Kong and the Ugly pokes fun at Billy Mitchell, who I truly believe from watching the documentary is a complete pompous asshole, and it also pokes fun at the Terminator 2 movie.

Steve Wiebe was cool enough to even appear in the trailer. Apparently Steve is appearing in an upcoming Vince Vaughn movie called Four Christmases. He isn't on the list of actors for the movie in IMDB.com, but the same director, Seth Gordon, who did King of Kong, is directing Four Christmases and apparently asked Steve Wiebe to be in this movie.

Good for Steve! He deserves nice things to happen to him.

If you haven't seen the King of Kong movie, then I highly recommend it. Any gamer would enjoy it.

Xplay Lists their Big Games to Watch for this Year

Spore, Tiberium, Little Big Planet ... Xplay can't wait to play the full versions when they release some time this year and I agree. This is the year for games. I personally am looking forward to the new Civilization Revolution, The World Ends With You, Grand Theft Auto IV, Resident Evil 5, Too Human and anything SquareEnix puts out.

The Lab with Leo has been Cancelled

Anyone scanning G4 TechTV.ca in the last month or listening to Leo Laporte's podcast this week would know by now that The Lab with Leo Laporte has been canceled by the morons at Rogers Media.

I honestly don't know how these companies keep canceling Leo's show, especially when he's so popular with the tech crowd. He's had at least 4 tech shows now, all which were very good and shouldn't have been canceled. Truthfully, I'm mad to see another show go.

Hopefully Leo will hang in there like always and find a new project in the industry to keep him going. I wish Leo all the best and I hope that the next employers that he works for actually understand how valuable he is.

Here's to hoping that Leo's next project is another TV project that ends up on a Canadian TV station.

G4 Tech Correspondent Search

G4 is now looking for correspondents without boobs to host their tech related shows, which is nice and makes the last contest with the ladies not as bias as before. I still think that G4 should have done a contest for correspondents that allowed both genders to enter at the same time, but if G4 wants to do it this way that's fine.

Contestants have 30 days to enter on Got Cast.com and campaign for votes and then the top ten winners will be considered by G4 to be a host for their tech shows. Contestants have to post a bio, pictures and videos of themselves to help people vote for them.

I just hope all these contests means that G4 will be bringing new tech shows to their channels, because with only two decent tech shows, the American G4TV channel isn't that fun to watch. At least I have Electric Playground, Reviews on the Run, Torrent, CNET TV and The Lab with Leo to watch here on G4TechTV in Canada. :)

G4 looking for girl gamer host: peanut gallery groans

The lovely people at G4 are looking for a new female gamer host and have decided to run a contest, instead of just auditioning like normal. G4 Gamer Girl Search is using the Got Cast Web site and their voting system to hunt down the next Olivia Munn or Morgan Webb.

Contestants must post their background information, their measurements *cough*, pictures and videos on a profile page, so people can vote for their favorite girl gamer host. The winner or winners will get to be the newest female host or hosts on one of G4's gaming shows.

I just wanna know where's the contest for the male host? Are the guys not good enough to be put through the public horse and pony show just for a job?


It's obvious that G4 isn't looking for a qualified host because if they were, they wouldn't hold a contest for gamer girls only and then make them going through a dumb voting process. I hope for the contestants' sake that this contest does result in a valid gamer host and not just another pretty face pretending to know what she's reading in the teleprompter.

Gotta give it to G4 though. They created a great marketing tool with this contest because everyone of the girls in the contest will be promoting themselves to tons of people and in turn will be promoting G4TV. Brilliant on their part.

I know I'm probably starting a flame war with my rant, but I'm really sick of these sad girl gamer contests and their attempts to appear to be anything more than a T&A showcase.

Honestly if anyone does decide to vote, vote for the Starslay3r. I think she's the only non-model/gamer in the top 5. Plus she's only like 2 votes behind the top girl. And she's the only one on that list that hasn't spammed my facebook, myspace and email inboxes with "VOTE FOR ME" messages like a friggn' rabid prom queen hopeful.

G4 TV has got a secret ...

Apparently G4TV in the US has a big announcement they plan to reveal this Thursday night during their show, Attack of the Show. No word yet on what it could be, but most believe that G4 will be going to HD format for all their shows.

Does Cheaters come in HD? Sorry about that. Some shows on the network have already switched to wide screen format and HD could be a possibly, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an all Tech channel again. Canada's G4 is still all tech and its much better than way.

Stay tuned to G4 this Thursday at 7:20pm est to watch for this big announcement. The biggest announcement G4 has ever released!

[Via G4TV]

Miss Video Game continues to fail

This morning I checked my email to find a message about Miss Video Game. One of my fellow writers wanted to promote some of the Dtoid readers that had made it into the top 48 (note: it was suppose to be the top 50 - I guess two girls dropped out after they made into the top 50) which is all good but one of the other writers noticed some familiar looking articles on their front page.

Miss Video Game was using the Destructoid feed to post our articles but there was nothing at the top of the feed to indicate where the articles were coming from. When I emailed the people behind MVG about this, they quickly remove our feed and replaced it with Gizmodo's feed. Of course, they are still not citing a source for the feed, just linking each title to the original story which makes it look like the articles are written by them.

[Update: I guess my email to the editor at Gizmodo was worth it because it seems MVG has finally credited Gizmodo at the top of the article column. I guess Gizmodo sent them a letter asking them to give them credit too.]

I also loved the fact that they still haven't responded to my email. I guess they'd rather remove the feed instead of apologising for not giving our site credit for the stories. How unprofessional.

I still can't believe this company still continues to screw up almost everything they do and yet girls still remain in the contest. I noticed that even the final contest between the final 5 has been pushed back from June to August to November now. I believe even the final 50 competition has been pushed back from April to sometime in August.

MVG has also decided to hold the final competition at Festivale Arcadia instead of holding the event on their own. Apparently doing this is going to make the contest seem more legit in the eyes of the 20,000+ gamers attending this festival. Yeah, ummm ... And G4's Girl Gamer contest made it more legit being on a cable TV station and where is she now?

This contest is so badly run that they can't even get their act together to run each part of the contest on the original dates set. I can't believe after all this time, they still can't get it together.

[Please note: I'm not providing links to the site because I refuse to provide them traffic any more.]

G4 Tech TV Canada brings new shows to the summer line up!

God, I love having the Canadian version of G4 instead of the American one, because we always get the best in tech and gaming show. Now G4 Tech TV is added to their wicked line by adding several new gaming and tech shows this summer.

G4TechTV Canada adds eight new hit shows to heat up summer programming

TORONTO, June 21st, 2007 – G4techTV Canada is pleased to announce the premiere of eight new hit shows to their summer programming kicking off the week of July 16th. From shows that cover the most up-to-date news in the tech and gaming world to a quirky new show that looks like an old school 80s video game, G4tech TV Canada is offering extended programming guaranteed to turn up the summer heat and keep tech fans coming back for more.

“Gamer.tv”
Airing weekdays at 11:00 a.m. ET starting July 16, “Gamer.tv” will keep viewers up to date with in-depth on-location reports filmed across the globe to entertain, amuse and provide unrivalled coverage of everything exciting that’s going on in the world of games. Broadcast globally to more than 300 million homes, “Gamer.tv” is the world’s leading weekly magazine show for the video gamer, mixing reviews of the latest games and exclusive news and previews.

“CNET TV”
Starting Tuesday July 17 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, “CNET TV” offers viewers a half hour video fix on the coolest gadgets, the latest gear, and up-to-the-minute tech reviews and news. The biggest and best of the technology world is featured though a number of video series such as “Buzz Report,” “Car Tech,” “Prizefight,” “Insider Secrets,” and “The New Edge 2.0.”

“Code Monkeys”
From one of the twisted minds behind “Crank Yankers” and the creator of “Minoriteam” comes a new animated comedy series of 8-bit proportions that was two decades in the making. Airing on Mondays starting July 16 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, “Code Monkeys” literally looks like an old school video game and revolves around an oddball group of 1980s game designers.

“A Gamer's Guide To…”
Airing Saturdays at 12:00 p.m. ET, starting July 21, “A Gamer’s Guide To…” is a spin-off of the wildly popular “Gamer.tv” with each episode presenting a comprehensive guide to one area of gaming. The 30 minute show offers everything you need to know about the Nintendo Wii, the Xbox 360, the hot world of Japanese gaming, working in the world of games or gaming online.

“When Games Attack”
Airing on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT starting July 18, “When Games Attack” takes a grown-up look at video games without sacrificing all the fun. Show host and XTrax Scottish Radio Awards 2007 Scottish Radio Presenter of the Year Dominik Diamond is guaranteed to offer the funniest and most informed 30 minute show about video games ever. Dominik travels to locations around the UK and America from fruit stands to soccer stadiums to casinos to add an offbeat angle to the world of video games.

“Major League Gaming Series”
Airing Sundays at 7:00 p.m. ET, starting July 22, “Major League Gaming” (MLG) is the largest organized league and international sanctioning body for the world's fastest growing competitive sport – professional video gaming. Recognized as the global governing authority for millions of competitive gamers worldwide, MLG's ongoing professional video gaming tournaments have attracted competitors from over 28 countries.

“The IT Crowd”
Airing on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT starting July 16, “The IT Crowd” is set in the London offices of Reynholm Industries, which is full of glamorous go-getters and high-flying executives. While their beautiful colleagues work upstairs in posh and spacious surroundings, the IT department - Jen, Roy and Moss - lurk below in a dingy basement, scorned by their co-workers as geeky losers. The show focuses on the high jinks of the socially-inept IT trio as they deal with the onslaught of tech issues and demanding coworkers.

“Torrent”
Airing on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT starting July 18, “Torrent” is a weekly one-hour Internet culture show for tech-savvy audiences looking for interesting, first-person, pop-tech stories from around the world. Entertaining, edgy, but most importantly the show is packed with great content that delivers viewers something new each and every week from the explosive world of video content on the web.