I think he’s looking to swipe some games.

Pleasepleasepleaseplease…

(Can’t imagine it being anything more than a one-off special, though.)

The most important question, of course, is whether or not CB has Kieron Gillen’s phone number.

Charlie Brooker once posted in the same internet forum thread as me. How’s that for a claim to fame?

And while I’m on the subject of gratuitous Rllmukforum links… Two posts later is biglime, one of the Consolevania/VideoGaiden people who appeared on the games episode of Screenwipe.

And since you brought up Kieron Gillen, I can’t resist mentioning that he and Steven Poole also post on said forum. Their recent face-off against nutcase “Alex (“Icycalm”, “Cryptogay”) Kierkegaard” on the subjects of games reviewing, George Orwell, Jean Baudrillard, and quantum mechanics was a sight to behold… until it was deleted. :(

On-topic: Gameswipe CONFIRMED!

Charlie Brooker once posted in the same internet forum thread as me. How’s that for a claim to fame?

He once held two doors open for me.

Also, from that link:

Telly companies Endemol and Zeppotron confirmed as much to IncGamers,

Endemol AND Zeppotron, you say? Wow.

>Worst videogame bosses ever?

Reggie Fils-Aime is in my bad books, for not greenlighting the western version of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse.

Anyone else a little disappointed that Brooker, supposed arch-enemy of trendy television fads and corporate groupthink, has started branding all his programmes by putting the word “wipe” at the end of them? I mean, “Screenwipe” made sense because there was such a thing as a “screen wipe” that Brooker was alluding to, but “Newswipe” and “Gameswipe” don’t without the name of the original to provide the branding identity.

Now, whilst I think the idea of a games-based programme hosted by Brooker is a great idea (especially because Brooker is one of the few media people with an interest in video games that realises they have a history before the Playstation that isn’t Mario and Sonic) I’m not sure I’d want to see it as an extension of Zeppotron’s/the BBC’s effort to try and spread the “Screenwipe” brand too thinly. I can’t help but suspect that this new show might be more of Brooker intoning sarcastically about “this is what most videogames are like” before going on one of his stream-of-conciousness “rants” whilst some 24-year-old hoping to move onto bigger things stretches his acting skills by pretending to be the “average gamer” in front of a giant screen. Wouldn’t it be nice if it were a show that looked and felt like something completely new and completely focused rather than just a spin-off of “Screenwipe”, an extended version of that spot where Brooker talked about “Resident Evil” from a couple of years ago? Cuz I can’t help but think that that’s what we’ll get and I think Brooker has it in him to make something a lot better than that.

I wouldn’t necessarily have a problem with Brooker doing Gameswipe in the same style, as I think it’s generally a very good format - and cost-effective to make, too, which is important when you’re on the kind of budget he’s presumably working with.

But I do think that Brooker sometimes goes for the easy joke or observation, which jars somewhat with the sections he does which analyse things *properly*. This is at least somewhat negated by the huge self-deprecating streak he has as well, of course…

whilst some 24-year-old hoping to move onto bigger things stretches his acting skills by pretending to be the “average gamer” in front of a giant screen.

There’s very rarely any actual actors in CB’s stuff - it’s all members of the production team.