Zachary Levi: I love technology. I’m also frightened by technology. I think the next five years of our lives are going to be insane. Then the next five years after that are going to fucking just freak people out. But I also have just so much passion for it. And I look at technology in a lot of ways, and I kind of in my own ways see ways that I want to improve upon it or utilize it in different ways specifically as it pertains to entertainment. So I really want to be more involved in that world and start developing the actual technology. Hardware, software… [Read the full interview here]

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MLG: What’s it been like getting this gig for the VGAs?

Zachary Levi: It’s great. I spent Sunday shooting some promos to lead up to the show and we also filmed the opening sketch. It’s just a lot of fun, inside video games bits and spoofs highlighting some of the top titles of the year and some of the games that are nominated for Best Game of the Year. It’s me jumping around into all these game scenarios and worlds.

MLG: Did you do a lot of green screen work to put you inside these games like Batman, LEGO Star Wars III and Uncharted 3?

ZL: Yeah, we did lots of green screen with crazy outfits, and funny bits. To me, and collectively the whole team, we really want to make this year, maybe even more so than other years…I’m a huge gamer, and I really want to make this about gamers and games and cater to that audience specifically. [Read the rest at MLG]

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What role do you see the VGAs playing with gamers today?

As a gamer, I definitely think that the VGAs are a must. I think that they are something that should exist because it’s the most profitable entertainment medium that’s out there. I want it to be something that’s more catered toward and respectful of the world that gaming has become, and less about just stereotyping it being about dudes sitting around talking about T&A and poning.

Although poning is definitely a vernacular that I use. The world of gaming is a much broader now. It’s important that people take notice of that and are respectful of that world. As the show has been progressing more and more that way, I think there’s a bright future for the “VGAs”.

What’s the best game of 2011 in your opinion?

If I had to go on just time spent with the game I would go with Modern Warfare 3, but I’m a first-person shooter kind of guy, and I’ve been playing that more than I’ve been playing anything else. It’s also easier, though. If you’re jumping onto an online match, you can play five or ten minutes here or there. As opposed to having to constantly save your game, jump out and jump back in, if you’re playing Skyrim. [Read the rest here]

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Zachary Levi, the TV star discusses turning his passion for gaming into a hosting gig for Spike TV’s upcoming VGA awards.

There are plenty of gamers out there who have watched, or at least are familiar with NBC’s spy series about a likable geek turned super spy, Chuck. The show, which comes to a close after 82 episodes and five seasons on January 27, helped to catapult the career of star Zachary Levi and has become something of a cult hit. Even if you haven’t watched Chuck, you’ve may heard Levi as Arcade Israel Gannon in Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout: New Vegas game, or possibly as one of the various trooper voices in Halo: Reach. He also provided the voice of Flynn Rider in the blockbuster Disney 3D CGI movie, Tangled Ever After, and the accompanying video game. Now Levi, who is himself a huge gamer, is taking center stage in the gaming world with the December 10th live broadcast of the Video Game Awards on SpikeTV at 8pm ET.

“It’s the Video Game Awards, so I think it’s important to do right by that community,” Levi said. “Some stuff might be a little inside for people who don’t understand video games, but if you’re tuning in the ‘Video Game Awards’, hopefully you’ve got some affinity for that.”

Levi, who adds his name to the roll call of previous hosts that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Jack Black, and last year’s host Neil Patrick Harris, spent a day going virtual in a series of spoofs for big titles like Batman: Arkham City, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.

“It’s all in-game generated footage that I’m put into via green screen, so it was pretty fun to do,” the actor said before confirming that he helped to write many of the bits himself. “I’ve been pretty involved. They have really talented writers that are gamers themselves, so they wrote a few great drafts to begin with, and then myself and my writing partner, Adam, came on board with little ideas and tweaks here and there. We tried to make it as funny as we could make it.” [Read the rest here]

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Kenny from “Knights of The Guild” interviewed Zac. Listen to it by clicking the image below.

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For the benefit of people who are not here, can you explain what this is about?

I just really love the world of Comic-Con, and what they do and how they bring all these wonderful people together. 200,000 genuine people who love what they’re into. That’s been the lifeblood of our show for so many years. If not for Comic-Con, we would not have the show we have. And over the years, I’ve been a little bummed out, like last year when we have awesome moderators like yourself, but we also have 4,000 fans who are dying to ask a question. For me, I’d rather just have an hour of fan Q&A. But that’s me. Not everybody’s the same. Maybe in a giant hall, that doesn’t work. But what I really wanted to do was create a place that was a one-stop shop for the nerd triple crown. Mostly Comic-Con with a little bit of E3 and a little bit of CES all mixed in. For me it’s all the same world. Nerd HQ allows fans to come in for free, and hang out and eat and drink and play video games that aren’t on the market yet. While at the same time giving celebrities a place to come and chill in between the business that they’re doing. [Read the rest here]

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IGN TV: I loved seeing Gary Cole back on the last episode.

Zachary Levi: to have somebody like Gary, who I’ve already looked at in everything he’s done and gone, “Oh, that guy is just so solid…” And then he comes on and he plays Yvonne’s dad the first time and knocks it out of the park. And then for him to come back… Anytime you get great guest stars and they come back, it’s like double whammy. It’s just that much more fun. [READ THE REST HERE]

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