Gaming Culture on the ABC

Posted Wednesday September 6, 2006 by Nick Caldwell in |

It looks like the ABC is making a more sustained push towards covering digital cultures with a new gaming-focused show called Good Games. From the look of the ABC’s own site for the show, it’s going to be a long time before we see a more sophisticated focus on gaming from television media. Still, it’s a start.

Your Comments

  1. jebni writes:

    I must be out of the loop: the other week I saw a British cable show that was basically live Quake capture-the-flag matches with sports commentators, as a completely run of the mill thing. How long has this been happening??

    Posted: 6 09 2006 - 11:47 | Permanent link to this comment

  2. Nick Caldwell writes:

    Televised gaming tournaments are big in South Korea, I think. Of course, it’s all about Starcraft.

    Posted: 6 09 2006 - 12:58 | Permanent link to this comment

  3. John Gunders writes:

    I just had this uncomfortable moment of dislocation: after reading the ABC site for Good Games, which included this…

    Hosted by Junglist and Kapowski, Good Game is filmed in the Den of Gaming (DOG); a gamers’ paradise fitted out with just about every gaming device ever invented. Junglist and Kapowski are supported each week by Dr Daneel, Good Game’s technical wizard, and P_Nutz, the computer-hacking ape.

    ...I read Mel’s latest post about the old Daily Show MySpace clip.

    I’m still not sure which one is the parody and which one is advertising…

    When TV shows try too hard to get down and funky with the young people, they can become just awful: like some of the fill-in between Saturday morning cartoons, or video clip shows on commercial TV, or those cringe-worthy occasions when they get some old fart on The Glass House (Molly Meldrum, I’m looking at you!) who tries to play up to the kids.

    Still if it’s on the ABC there might be hope: Rollercoaster, the framing show for the ABC’s afternoon kid’s programming is surprisingly good, mainly, in my opinion, because the host doesn’t try to force it, and isn’t patronising.

    Posted: 8 09 2006 - 13:09 | Permanent link to this comment

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