Spike TV's Geoff Keighley, who recently appeared on Fox News to defend BioWare's Mass Effect against false allegations, has commented to GameDaily BIZ about the weird nature of the whole skit.
Speaking to our Media Coverage columnist Kyle Orland for a piece to be published with the Friday morning edition of the GameDaily BIZ newsletter, Keighley said that initially he wasn't sure if he should even go on the air with Fox, but in the end he felt it was the right thing to do.
"We debated whether I should do that or not. In retrospect I'm glad I went on to at least try to set the record straight," he said. "I sort of felt a little bit like I was on an Onion News Network skit or something like that. It was a little off the wall, but at least I was there to ... represent the industry in a mainstream sense."
Keighley also expressed his disappointment at how Fox only seems to cover video games in a negative light. "It's sad that that's the only way Fox News will really cover games [with] controversy like that. I said to them afterwards, 'I'd love to come back on and talk about a game like Spore or other big games coming out this year.' We'll see if they invite me back; I hope so," he said. "But it's tough, and all this TV programming about games, I hope some of it is going to change the perception of the industry among the mainstream and grow this category, because I want to see more great coverage of games."
