The Jace Hall Show
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The Jace Hall Show is a video game show hosted by Jace Hall
Jace Hall
Jason "Jace" Hall is an American film, television and video game producer, best known for being founder and Chief Executive Officer of Monolith Productions Inc and President of...

 consisting of interviews with hollywood celebrities and those involved in the video game industry. The Jace Hall Show is a production of HDFILMS, INC. and is distributed by IGN Entertainment. The episodes air on Thursdays, and are available on Crackle
Crackle
Crackle is a digital network and studio, featuring commercially supported streaming video content in Flash Video format. It is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and its content consists primarily of Sony's library of films and television shows...

, IGN
IGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...

, Hulu
Hulu
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, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live
Xbox Live
Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002...

. Co-starring on the show are Gary Graham
Gary Graham
Gary Graham is an American actor. He is probably best known for his starring role as Detective Matthew Sikes in the television series Alien Nation , which was followed by the TV movies Alien Nation: Dark Horizon , Alien Nation: Body and Soul , Alien Nation: Millennium , Alien Nation: The...

, Todd Roy, Corey Craig, Marti Resteghini.

History

Hall came up with the idea for a show while observing the connection between young Hollywood and the video game industry after creating both his own game company, Monolith Productions
Monolith Productions
Monolith Productions is a Kirkland, Washington-based computer game developer. Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine Lithtech, which has been used for most of their games...

 and being the senior vice president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. He wanted to produce an Internet show about the culture of video games, particularly the relationship between Hollywood and games. The third season started on January 29, 2010.

Season 1

Title Original Airdate |#
"Duke Nukem Forever: Sneak Peek!" May 30, 2008 1
Hall interviews George Broussard
George Broussard
George Broussard is a game producer and designer known in the PC game community as one of the creators of the Duke Nukem series ....

, Scott Miller
Scott Miller (programmer)
Scott Miller is an American entrepreneur best known for founding Apogee Software, Ltd. in 1987.- Personal life :...

, and Greg Grunberg
Greg Grunberg
Gregory Phillip "Greg" Grunberg is an American television actor. He is best known from starring as Matt Parkman on the NBC television series Heroes. Other notable roles included the characters Sean Blumberg on Felicity and Eric Weiss on Alias , both created and produced by childhood friend J. J...

.
"Christina Milian and the T-Rex!" June 12, 2008 2
Hall interviews Christina Milian
Christina Milian
Christine Flores , better known by her stage name Christina Milian , is an American singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, and model....

, hangs out with Jolene Blalock
Jolene Blalock
Jolene K. Blalock is an American film and television actress and model, perhaps best known for playing the Vulcan T'Pol on the UPN science fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise. The star of several feature films, she is a regular guest star in television films and series.- Early career :A popular...

, and visits the T-Rex
T-Rex (automobile)
Campagna T-Rex is a two-seat, three-wheeled cyclecar created by Campagna Corporation located in Quebec, Canada. It has a 1.4 L, straight-four engine. Although classified as a motorcycle, the interior can accommodate the driver and passenger seated side-by-side, with adjustable seat backs,...

 shops.
"Zach Levi! Cliffy B! And Cung Le!" June 19, 2008 3
Hall interviews Zach Levi, Cliff Bleszinski
Cliff Bleszinski
Clifford Michael "Cliff" Bleszinski is the design director for the game development company Epic Games in Cary, North Carolina. He is most famous for his continuing hand in the development of the Unreal franchise, especially 1999's Unreal Tournament, and the Gears of War franchise...

, while Cung Le spends time at the show's office.
"Chocolate Rain on Hell's Highway!" June 26, 2008 4
Hall interviews Tay Zonday
Tay Zonday
Adam Nyerere Bahner , better known by the pseudonym Tay Zonday, is an American musician, YouTube personality and voice actor. He is well known by listeners for his deep baritone voice whilst singing. He garnered mainstream exposure when his song "Chocolate Rain", and accompanying video on YouTube,...

 at the Geisha House restaurant, along with Randy Pitchford
Randy Pitchford
Randall S. "DuvalMagic" Pitchford II is one of five founders of video game developer Gearbox Software and currently the CEO and president of the company.-Career:...

.
"That 70s Gamecock..." July 2, 2008 5
Hall interviews Wilmer Valderrama
Wilmer Valderrama
Wilmer Eduardo Valderrama is an American actor and television personality, known for the role of Fez in the sitcom That '70s Show, hosting the MTV series Yo Momma, and voicing the character of Manny in the children's show Handy Manny.-Early life:Valderrama was born in Miami, Florida the son of...

, Mike Wilson
Mike Wilson (CEO)
Mike Wilson, aka Michael S. Wilson as a , has been a computer and video game executive since 1995, when he worked at DWANGO as VP of Development for 6 months before being hired by id Software to handle marketing and start up their own self-publishing....

, and goes through the show's comments.
"Curt Schilling and Wimbledon!!!" July 9, 2008 6
Hall interviews Curt Schilling
Curt Schilling
Curtis Montague "Curt" Schilling is a former American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in and won World Series championships in with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in and with the Boston Red Sox. Schilling retired with a...

 and travels to New York to play in Wiimbledon
Wii Sports
is a sports game developed and published by Nintendo as a launch title for the Wii video game console , and part of the Touch! Generations. The game was first released in North America along with the Wii on November 19, 2006, and was released in Japan, Australia, and Europe the following month...

.
"Is Video Game "Journalism" Legit?" July 16, 2008 7
Hall visits the GamePro Magazine offices, and interviews 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....

 and N'Gai Croal.
"Video Game Violence & Hot Chicks!" July 22, 2008 8
Hall interviews Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson (attorney)
John Bruce "Jack" Thompson is an American activist and disbarred attorney, based in Coral Gables, Florida. Thompson is known for his role as an anti-video-game activist, particularly against violence and sex in video games....

 and does a workout with Vida Guerra
Vida Guerra
Vida Guerra is a Cuban-born American glamour model. Her first notable appearance was in the U.S. edition of FHM magazine in December 2002; since then, she has modeled for many other men's magazines....

.
"80's Icon Corey Feldman & More..." July 29, 2008 9
Hall interviews Corey Feldman
Corey Feldman
Corey Scott Feldman is an American film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, The Goonies, Stand by Me, The Lost Boys, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, Gremlins and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

 about his album and Paul Steed
Paul Steed
Paul Howard Steed, Jr is a video game modeller and artist. He has worked for Origin Systems, Electronic Arts, id Software, Wild Tangent, Microsoft's Xbox, Atari, and now Exigent. He created artwork or models for several prominent game series including Wing Commander and Quake...

 about the controversy of his Quake models.
""Lost" TV Show Star Dan Roebuck..." August 6, 2008 10
Hall interviews Dan Roebuck and visits his monster museum, then pops into Collision Studios.
"DC Online & Creepshow: RAW" August 13, 2008 11
Hall gets a visit from Wendi McLendon-Covey
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Wendi McLendon-Covey is an American actress, writer, producer and comedian. She is known for roles on television shows, such as Reno 911! and Rules of Engagement . She is also known for her role in the 2011 hit film Bridesmaids.-Personal life:McLendon-Covey was born Wendy Anne McLendon in...

, interviews John Smedley
John Smedley (developer)
John Smedley was a computer game programmer, Product Development Director and is now President of Sony Online Entertainment since 2002.Smedley was involved with the creation and development of the original EverQuest and was co-founder of Verant Interactive, Inc., which became Sony Online...

, and gets a sneak peek at Creepshow: RAW.
"SPT Prez Steve Mosko & Fear 2!!" August 21, 2008 12
Corey the Intern takes a polygraph test while Hall interviews Sony Pictures Television president Steve Mosko, and visits Monolith Productions
Monolith Productions
Monolith Productions is a Kirkland, Washington-based computer game developer. Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine Lithtech, which has been used for most of their games...

.
"Season Finale" August 28, 2008 13
Hall travels to Texas to visit Gearbox Software
Gearbox Software
Gearbox Software, LLC is an American video game development company based in Plano, Texas.-History:Gearbox Software was founded in January 1999 by five members of the content team from the defunct developer Rebel Boat Rocker: Randy Pitchford, Brian Martel, Stephen Bahl, Landon Montgomery, and Rob...

 and interviews Randy Pitchford
Randy Pitchford
Randall S. "DuvalMagic" Pitchford II is one of five founders of video game developer Gearbox Software and currently the CEO and president of the company.-Career:...

, then drops by id Software
Id Software
Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...

.

Holiday Specials

Title Original Airdate |#
"Felicia Day and the Prince of Persia launch party" December 1, 2008 1
Hall interviews Felicia Day
Felicia Day
Kathryn Felicia Day is an American actress, known for her work as "Vi" on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and for parts in movies such as Bring It On Again and June, as well as the Internet musical, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog...

 and drives to San Francisco to go to the Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner and released in 1989 for the Apple II, that represented a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in video games....

.
"Insomniac Games & Lou Ferrigno Thanksgiving!!" December 2, 2008 2
Hall interviews Lou Ferrigno
Lou Ferrigno
Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno is an American actor, fitness trainer/consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron...

, the original Hulk, and Ted Price
Ted Price
Ted Price is the President and CEO of Insomniac Games, Inc. - an independent game developer which he founded in 1994. Since its inception the company has grown to approximately 210 people...

, CEO of Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games, Inc. is an American video game developer headquartered in Burbank, California. Founded in 1994, Insomniac has released titles for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. It created Disruptor, the first three Spyro the Dragon games, and the Ratchet &...

.
"Blizzard's World of Warcraft feat. Ice-T & Coco" December 15, 2008 3
Hall interviews Coco
Nicole "Coco" Austin
-External links:*...

, and visits Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce and currently owned by French company Activision Blizzard...

 to see the new World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...

 race.
"Seth Macfarlane(Family Guy) & Faustino (Bud Bundy)" December 22, 2008 4
Hall interviews Seth Macfarlane
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American animator, writer, comedian, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.A native of Kent,...

, David Faustino
David Faustino
David Anthony Faustino is an American actor and rap artist primarily known for his role as Bud Bundy on the sitcom Married with Children.-Early life:...

, and explains the whole Atari ET game issue
Atari video game burial
The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. The goods disposed of through the burial are generally believed to have been...

.

Season 2

Title Original Airdate |#
"Tom Green & EverQuest Anniversary" March 19, 2009 1
Hall interviews Tom Green
Tom Green
Michael Thomas "Tom" Green is a Canadian actor, rapper, writer, comedian, talk show host and media personality. Best known for his shock humour brand of comedy, Green found mainstream prominence via his MTV television show The Tom Green Show...

, plays some Ms. Pac-man
Ms. Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game produced by Midway as an unauthorized sequel to Pac-Man. It was released in North America in 1981 and became one of the most popular video games of all time, leading to its adoption by Pac-Man licensor Namco as an official title...

 and goes to EverQuest's
EverQuest
EverQuest, often shortened to EQ, is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was released on the 16th of March, 1999. The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost...

 anniversary party.
"MMA vs. Street Fighter 4" March 26, 2009 2
Hall visits the Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV
is a fighting game produced by Capcom. It is the first numbered Street Fighter game released by Capcom since . The coin-operated arcade game was released in Japan on July 18, 2008, with North American arcades importing the machines by August...

 launch party and drops by the offices of Arcade in a Box.
"Akon is Wanted" April 2, 2009 3
Hall stops by Akon
Akon
Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, better known as simply Akon , is a Senegalese American R&B recording artist and songwriter.According to Forbes, Akon grossed $21 million in 2010, $20 million in 2009 and $12 million in 2008. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of "Locked Up", the first...

's music video shoot and then talks to the producers of Wanted: Weapons of Fate.
"Keke Palmer & Free Realms" April 9, 2009 4
Hall interviews Keke Palmer
Keke Palmer
Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer is an American actress and singer who rose to fame for her performance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee. She also starred as the title character in the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP...

 and plays some paintball with her, and then checks out Free Realms
Free Realms
Free Realms is a massively multiplayer online role playing video game developed by Sony Online Entertainment set in a fantasy-themed world, named Sacred Grove for the PC, Mac and PlayStation 3. The game was released on April 29, 2009, for the Windows PC...

.
"James Gunn & Brutal Legend" April 16, 2009 5
Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder
Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American model, actor and producer, best known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and Damon Salvatore in the TV drama The Vampire Diaries.-Early life:...

 drops by, then Hall interviews James Gunn and Tim Schafer
Tim Schafer
Timothy Schafer is an American computer game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts...

.
"House of The Dead" April 23, 2009 6
Hall
Hall
In architecture, a hall is fundamentally a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age, a mead hall was such a simple building and was the residence of a lord and his retainers...

 plays House of the Dead with Keke Palmer
Keke Palmer
Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer is an American actress and singer who rose to fame for her performance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee. She also starred as the title character in the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP...

 who decides to take it to the paintball range when her and Corey cant settle their differences in the video game world.
"PG Porn" April 30, 2009 7
Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder
Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American model, actor and producer, best known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and Damon Salvatore in the TV drama The Vampire Diaries.-Early life:...

 gets asked by the show team to do a segment, without clothes. We also visit the set of PG Porn, the online series from James Gunn starring Mikaela Hoover
Mikaela Hoover
Mikaela Hoover is an American actress. Hoover's recent credits include the Rain Wilson & Ellen Page superhero film Super , the Emmy Award winning series How I Met Your Mother, and ABC's Happy Endings....

. Then we head to San Francisco to talk with Tim Schafer
Tim Schafer
Timothy Schafer is an American computer game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts...

 about Brutal Legend
"Sanctuary & Terminator: Salvation" May 7, 2009 8
Kelly Hu
Kelly Hu
Kelly Ann Hu is an American actress and former fashion model. She was Miss Teen USA 1985 and Miss Hawaii USA 1993.-Early life:Hu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Juanita, an engineering drafter for Honolulu, and Herbert Hu, a salesman and exotic bird breeder; the two divorced during...

 plays mini-golf with Jace at HD Films. Tim Schafer
Tim Schafer
Timothy Schafer is an American computer game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts...

 makes another appearance.
"B Real & Ngmoco" May 14, 2009 9
Leela Savasta
Leela Savasta
Leela Savasta is a Canadian actress. She played Clair Crosby in the 2006 film Black Christmas.-Biography:Savasta was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she currently resides. She has appeared in such television shows as Smallville, Intelligence, Supernatural and the Showtime series Masters...

 is wooed by Corey at the office while Jace looks on, and we take a tour of the huge Electronic Arts facilities with Glen Schofield
Glen Schofield
Glen A. Schofield is currently the V.P., GM for Sledgehammer Games and the former V.P., GM at EA Visceral Games and was the creator and Executive Producer of the third-person shooter Dead Space.-Early and professional life:...

 of EA Redwood Shores.
"Katee Sackoff & Dante's Inferno" May 21, 2009 10
Jace takes Battlestar Galactica bad girl, Katee Sackhoff
Katee Sackhoff
Kathryn Ann "Katee" Sackhoff is an American actress known mainly for playing Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica. In 2004 she was nominated for a Saturn Award in the "Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series" category for her work in...

 on a date to the Smoke House for some cocktails, and sits down with the developers behind Dante’s Inferno, the new game from EA.
"Collector's Item" May 28, 2009 11
Joe Flanigan
Joe Flanigan
Joe Flanigan is an American television actor best known for his portrayal of the character Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis.-Early life:Flanigan was born Joseph Dunnigan III in Los Angeles, California...

 from Stargate Atlantis drops by and tries on a rare collectors item of Jace’s. We also take a sneak peak at Dante’s Inferno from EA and visit the set of “Sanctuary” the online series turned TV show.
"Meet The Terminator" June 4, 2009 12
Roland Kickinger
Roland Kickinger
Roland Kickinger is an Austrian-born bodybuilder and actor from Vienna. Standing 6-feet-4-inches-tall and weighing from 250-300 pounds, he has appeared in numerous bodybuilding competitions, fitness magazines and training videos...

 joins Jace at Zach Levi’s house to play Terminator: Salvation and Jace is back in Canada to tour the set of “Sanctuary” with stars, Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping is an English-born Canadian actress, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis...

 and Robin Dunne
Robin Dunne
Robin Dunne is a Canadian actor who is mainly known for having had numerous leading roles in sequels throughout his career, and lately for his role as Doctor Will Zimmerman in the cult Science fiction Television series, Sanctuary....

.
"High on Stargate" June 11, 2009 13
Corey gets high…on chocolate at the office. And Jace takes a tour of the Stargate: Universe sets with the shows Executive Producer, Brad Wright
Brad Wright
Brad Wright is a Canadian television producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known as the creator or co-creator of the television series Stargate SG-1 , Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe...

 in Vancouver.
"Stealing The Conversation" June 18, 2009 14
Jace talks with show editor Nic Aragon about Grand Theft Auto and why it sucks and then meets up with Ben Heck, the king of all gamer mods to see what new gadget hes working on.
"Keeping It Real at NGMOCO" June 25, 2009 15
Jace talks music and games with legendary rapper, B-Real
B-Real
Louis Freese, better known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper of Cuban and Mexican heritage, and a film and TV actor...

 of Cypress Hill, and then heads to San Francisco to visit NGMOCO and check out their newest iPhone games.
"Visiting Olivia Munn" July 2, 2009 16
Marti deals with Corey the Writer, while Jace takes his crew of Producer, Todd Roy and Editor Nic Aragon to visit [Olivia Munn] at her house to be challenged every step of the way.
"Arkham City Batman Peak" July 9, 2009 17
Jace, Shanna and Marti watch Jace’s Streamy Awards show footage and we take a look at Batman Arkham Asylum from Rocksteady Games.
"Morris Chestnut & Chadam" July 16, 2009 18
Jace meets up with Morris Chestnut
Morris Chestnut
Morris L. Chestnut is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as teenage father Ricky Baker in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, groom-to-be Lance Sullivan in the 1999 film The Best Man, as Tracy Reynolds, NBA star in the 2002 film Like Mike, and as the Visitor Ryan in the...

 of “V” in Canada when Jace realizes there’s been a mix up of hotel rooms.
"Star Trek Forever" July 23, 2009 19
Star Trek stars from various series gather for the first time in a while after being invited to dinner and Atari by Jace, who quickly learns that it was not a good idea to serve alcohol at the interview.
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Featured Guests


Seth MacFarlane starred in the first season of the show, along with Tom Green, Felicia Day, Vida Guerra, Zach Levi, Curt Schilling and Wilmer Valderrama. The second season of the Jace Hall Show starred Katte Sackoff, Joe Flanigan, Olivia Munn.

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