Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe
Introduction '''''Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe''''' is a special one-off British, video game culture show by Charlie Brooker, broadcast in September 2009 during the BBC's Technology season. Following on from Brooker's ''Screenwipe'' and ''Newswipe'', ''Gameswipe'' featured reviews of video games and consoles as well as an insight into the video game industry.
Format The one-off special was very similar to its predecessors in that Brooker, along with a camera and various games consoles, reviewed and previewed video games in the same style as ''Screenwipe''. Brooker claimed that it would attempt to prove that video games can be just as engaging as television and just as dumb. He said to "expect pixels, joypads, some of the world's weirdest games, celebrity cameos and the occasional sound effect".In the show, Brooker reviews ''Wolfenstein'', ''50 Cent: Blood on the Sand'' and ''The Beatles: Rock Band''. The show also contains contributions from Dara Ó Briain, Robert Florence, Ryan Macleod, Larry Bundy Jr, Rebecca Mayes and Graham Linehan.
Reception The first showing of ''Gameswipe'' drew 361,000 viewers, outdoing the typical performances of both ''Screenwipe'' and ''Newswipe''. The UK video games trade magazine ''MCV'' said of the show, "It's fair to say that the reaction from the industry to last night's TV debut of Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe was mixed. But if its intention was to offer an informed, reasoned and mature take on the games industry of both past and present, then it's hard to regard the show as anything other than an overwhelming success."
The future In October 2009, Brooker told ''MCV'' that he would consider working on either a further episode of ''Gameswipe'' or, potentially, a brand new series, though he added that he himself may choose not to present the show.
See also *Charlie Brooker's ''How Videogames Changed the World''
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