The television channel, which has been a memorable experience for many American and Canadian players in the early 2000s, will be seeing a revival in 2021.

G4 launched in 2002. It focused on video game news, reviews, as well as competitions, essentially making it the grandfather of eSports. For a while, it was united with Tech TV (a channel focused on technology), making it G4techTV, but it then reverted to G4tv. However, NBCUniversal started to slowly kill the channel, which, in its last few months, aired mostly Cops repeats, as well as outdated repeats of gaming-related programs in 2014.

However, the channel’s Twitter account, out of nowhere, posted a video, saying „We never stopped playing,” and the end of the video also shows the year 2021. So G4 will be coming back in some shape or form, but we don’t know in what former. Will it be a new television channel? It would make sense: games have become far more mainstream than two decades ago.

Several other countries can live with a gaming-focused television station just fine. A prime example of it would be France, where Game One has been alive and kicking for several decades. It tried to gain ground in Hungary as well in 2000, but the translated channel was on an empty slot of a children’s channel (Minimax) for two, and later, ten hours. The channel was gone by August 2001, and the next day, its slot was taken over by another channel called ITV, unrelated to the commercial station in the UK. However, it got shrunk back to a measly two hours a day, and the rest of the empty time was taken by a music channel (MusicMax).

Gaming and television would make a lot more sense nowadays. Will it be as memorable as two decades ago? Will it be a new TV channel? We’ll see shortly!

Source: PCGamer

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— G4TV (@G4TV) July 24, 2020

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