ABC2’s Good Game, Australia’s longest running television show about video games, has been cancelled.
Announced today, the decision to axe Good Game appeared to come as a last-minute shock to its production team. Host Stephanie “Hex” Bendixsen said at the end of December’s season finale that the show would return mid-February. The Good Game website still states that 2017 episodes will be “available soon”. And up until last Monday, Good Game’s Twitter seemed to believe that they were returning as well.
Hello 2017.
— Good Game (@GoodGameTV) January 23, 2017
Unfortunately, it is not to be, and season 10’s finale will now be the series finale.
Good Game’s children’s show on ABC ME, Good Game: Spawn Point, will continue, albeit in an as yet unspecified alternate format. Good Game: Spawn Point debuted on 20 February 2010, and only reviews games rated G or PG.
Hosted by Steven “Bajo” O’Donnell and Stephanie “Hex” Bendixsen, Good Game was created in 2006 by Janet “Sydski” Carr, Michael “Kapowski” Makowski and Jeremy “Junglist” Ray.
Good Game celebrated its 10th anniversary last September with an hour-long birthday special in front of a live audience, which seemed to indicate that it was only going from strength to strength. There was a recent production shake-up, with Carr moving on from her role as Executive Producer at the end of last year, but a replacement had been instated. There was no indication the show would not continue.
The show’s cancellation was attributed to the decision of two of Good Game’s hosts to pursue other opportunities, as well as its audience’s increasing tendency to find gaming information from other sources.
You can read the full story over on Kotaku.
Disclosure: Angharad “Rad” Yeo is the sister of Amanda Yeo.
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2 responses to “Good Game Has Been Cancelled”
That sucks! Good Game was an excellent show and offered more than just game reviews. A poor decision by the ABC!
Looks like it was the hosts who ultimately made it happen. Though I guess the ABC could have brought on some new people…