ugachaka :: Jacob was here

I, for one, have been holding out hoping that G4 would someday pick up the torch of generating game coverage similar to the way that GameTrailers has with their retrospectives.

It looks like they might now be headed down the right path. X-Play will be expanding its coverage of videogames to include more than just review video segments.

Although there are no direct promises of game features, the press release does say that there will be more analysis and interviews. I can only hope that these segments lead into more gamer-focused features that we can all enjoy. I have really enjoyed what GameTrailers is doing with their retrospective segments–similar to what G4’s Icons used to be–so it would be great to have something like a smaller version of that on the air as a part of the X-Play program.

The new daily program should premiere on January 14. Check your times.

I neglected to mention awhile back that the Metroid Retrospective had been concluded over at GameTrailers.com with the Part 5 video. This one sets the timeline. If you watched the Zelda videos, then you know finding a timeline for a game series can sometimes be a hard thing to do. This one is a little less debatable, but they seem to have just as large a task in creating the timeline with what little you can piece from each game.

In the process of checking out Gametrailers.com’s Metroid retrospective that Joystiq highlighted recently, I discovered that they had also done a Legend of Zelda retrospective checking out the legacy and influence of the series. This feature may be even better than the recent Metroid one.

The rest of the Metroid retrospective that Joystiq has covered and that GameTrailers produced is completed. I talked about it after the first edition. It is cool to see the series laid out this way, and I hope they do something similar for other saga-like games. Check out all four parts below.

This stuff is what I always hoped that G4TV’s Icons series would lead into in the world of gaming media. One can only hope. Icons got canceled last I heard.

Looking forward to the rest of the installments from GameTrailers.