The defunct cable TV network G4 featuring tech, games and entertainment shows is set to return in some form in 2021, according to a teaser released by IGN during Comic-Con @ Home, the online replacement for San Diego Comic-Con. 2020.
Official Twitter accounts for The attack of the show! and X-PlayThe best-known G4 shows also released the teaser along with a catchphrase: “We never stop playing.” The only other activity currently visible on those accounts are the 2012 tweet retweets.
The teaser contains few details about how the TV network and / or its characteristic programming would return. In the one-minute video, a camera pans through a dark warehouse until a game of Stink being played on a CRT television. The TV screen crashes and shows the words “streaming coming”, before the camera flies through an animation from the 2009 era of zooming in via internet cables that finally resolves into the G4 logo. The year 2021 appears on the screen, followed by the slogan mentioned above.
G4 was a television network that launched in 2002 and closed in 2014. Among video game fans, it’s probably best known for shows like X-Play (originally introduced by Adam Sessler, who expressed apparent surprise at Friday’s announcement) and The attack of the show!, a live pop culture and critic show with a collection of fun hosts. Olivia Munn, one of the show’s former presenters, also retweeted the G4 teaser video.
G4 was recently owned by the Comcast subsidiary NBCUniversal. The network may return as part of Peacock, the streaming service that the company fully launched last week. We reached out to NBCUniversal for feedback, and will update this article with any information we receive.
