Thumbs Up of the Week: Geoff Keighley

Thumbs up of the week #2

This week, my thumbs up goes to Geoff Keighley (in the photo to the right) from Gametrailers.com for his outstanding defense on Mass Effect while in an interview with Fox News. Geoff has been with Gametrailers for several years now and has been featured in many sequences such as "The Bonus Round". He can also be seen on G4 Tech TV and Spike TV as a host to many different gaming programs.

Now I know technically this story is old, but I don't care I want to talk about it anyway (plus, back then I didn't have this blog). A while back Geoff Keighley was brought onto Fox news as guest for being a video game expert. He was appearing on an episode that would debate the over-outraged sex scene in Bioware's Mass Effect game for the Xbox 360. Also appearing on the show was Cooper Lawrence, a novelist, psychologist and specialist who had extremely different opinions than Geoff about Mass Effect's rating and right to be on the shelves. On the show she insisted that "the data and research proved that boys who played games like Mass Effect would thus treat woman like objects and so..." she continued to rant, completely ignoring anything Geoff said. Now while every single statement Geoff made was completely valid, Cooper continued to show ignorance to the piece of art that is Mass Effect. However, Geoff wouldn't simply let her bash the game. Instead he stood up for Mass Effect and totally bitched her out right on Fox News, and that's why Geoff gets my Thumbs Up of the Week!

For those of you who have not seen the episode you can watch it here:
Fox News: Mass Effect (Click Here)

Make sure to tell me what you think about the whole situation. Whose side are you on and why? Oh and if you see Geoff. Tell him Locke says "Good f**kin job!" - Locke Downe