Geoff Keighley

Geoff Keighley

Geoff Keighley is a Canadian video game journalist. His work spans online, print and TV outlets, and he has been writing about games since 1992.Fact|date=January 2008

He is the host and executive producer of the Spike TV video game show "GameTrailers TV" (formerly known as "Game Head"). He was also one of the co-hosts of the now-defunct G4 show "G4tv.com". Keighley is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Kotaku, [cite web |url=http://kotaku.com/354756/mcwhertor-invades-gametrailers-tv |publisher=Kotaku |title=McWhertor Invades GameTrailers TV |author=Flynn De Marco |date=2008-02-10 |accessdate=2008-02-14] "Business 2.0", "Electronic Gaming Monthly" and "Entertainment Weekly", among others. As of January 2008, besides hosting "GTTV", Keighley can still be seen as a correspondent on another G4 show, "The Electric Playground", and his work can be read in monthly columns in the "Official Xbox Magazine" and on the GameFly website.

He is known for not just writing reviews and previews, but going behind the scenes of the game industry for in-depth business profiles and lengthy feature pieces. In 2005 GameDaily named him as the best journalist of the year, and in 2004 NewsBios.com named him one of the best 30 business journalists in the world under 30. He is also only one of two journalists, the other being "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace, profiled in the Harvard Business School press book "Geeks and Geezers" by noted leadership expert Warren Bennis.

In addition to GTTV, Keighley has had a hand in almost every other video game-related project on television. On Comcast’s G4 network, he appeared as the network’s lead anchor for its E3 press conference coverage, interviewing CEOs from companies like Sony and Electronic Arts. For MTV he created the concept and produced (with LivePlanet) “Gears of War: Race to E3” and “Gears of War: Race to Launch,” two high rated specials that took viewers inside the development of the hit Xbox 360 game from Microsoft. And in 2007, the Discovery Channel aired a landmark five-hour documentary about video games from World of Wonder Productions, based on a treatment by Keighley, who also served as consulting producer. Geoff has also hosted and co-produced a number of video game launch specials for Spike TV, including “Madden NFL 08 Kickoff” featuring a performance by Ozzy Osbourne and “Halo 3: Launched!” featuring a performance by Linkin Park.

In 2007, Keighley was interviewed on Larry Hryb's podcast, Major Nelson Radio "episode 218", in which Larry made reference to this Wikipedia entry in his show. He also was on "show 231" discussing E3, and "show 276" talking about the imminent GTA4 release. He was also interviewed on Fox News' controversial segment on "Mass Effect", and was later praised by gamers online for being the only one on the show who had actually played the game. [ [http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/01/geoff-keighley-pwns-fox-news-with-1-truth-power.html Geoff Keighley Pwns Fox News With +1 Truth Power | SarcasticGamer.com ] ] [ [http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/01/keighley_sets_mass_effect_record_straight_or_tries_to-2.html Keighley Sets Mass Effect Record Straight... Or Tries To | Kotaku Australia ] ] [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/163925.html]

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External links

* [http://www.gameslice.com Geoff's official site]


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