G4 Revival Calls It Quits In Just One Year
There are times when you can smell a project’s failure before it even starts — barely anyone I knew was excited for Google Stadia or even thought it stood a chance, and lo and behold, it spun in last month. Then there’s G4 — the original incarnation died because the world was changing, and it’s only changed more drastically since then. Would gamers be enthusiastic about a cable network in the 2020s just as they were in the 2000s? At a time when cable is in decline overall? We would have bet “no” and we would have won the bet. It’s unclear why, but Comcast announced they had decided to revive G4 in 2020, and in October of 2021, the channel went back on the air for most expanded cable subscribers. Several of the original shows were revived such as Attack of the Show and X-Play, along with new content like esports and the Japanese series Ninja Warrior. There was at least some awareness that gamers had shifted largely to the