Several rhythm games made their debut at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. The genre has gained popularity and developers have demonstrated the ability to create different styles of gameplay, from the complexity of Guitar Hero to the simplicity of Wii Music. ...

Game Developer Harmonix changed the video game industry last year by releasing Rock Band, a popular game that uses not only a guitar, but drums and a microphone as well. The game has prompted other games to step their game up by including additional instruments, including Activision’s

E3 isn’t known as a showcase for sports games, but this year’s event featured some of the hottest new sports titles. Madden 09, NBA Live 09, TNA iMPACT, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 and Wii Sports: Resort were just a few of the ...

All eyes were on Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft at E3 2008. Rumors and predictions were rampant prior to the event regarding what the big three would unveil this year. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino highlights some of the big announcements made at E3, ...

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer gives parents the scoop on two items sure to top kids’ holiday wish lists this season: Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Nintendo’s Wii.

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About 18,000 people attended the inaugural Entertainment for All Expo video game event in Los Angeles, CA. Attendees were able to play hundreds of games at the event, including Metal Gear Solid 4, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, NFL Tour and Guitar Hero III: ...

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer discusses “Bully”, the newest release from the company that produced Grand Theft Auto. “Bully” for the Sony Playstation (PS2) was controversial months before it hit shelves. Now that it’s here, what do parents need to know?

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Apple is finally getting its game on. The company is partnering up with video game giant Electronic Arts and id Software to bring gaming to the Mac platform. The deals were announced during Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, ...

In part 1 of the Apple WWDC 2007 Steve Jobs Keynote, Electronic Arts and ID Software showed new games and a commitment to the Macintosh OS X platform.

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A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on information-stealing programs designed to gather account information for online games. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand the threats these programs pose to more than just your online game account and how to protect yourself from these types of ...

Will mobile games ever be at the same level as portable gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS or Playstation Portable (PSP)? At CTIA Wireless 2006, PodTech’s Rio Pesino asked Martha Ng, Business Development Manager of mobile game maker Funmobile, if cell phones will eventually make portable handhelds ...

SAN JOSE, August 14, 2006 (PodTech News) - Microsoft to gamers: DIY! The company kicked off its two-day Gamefest in Seattle today by announcing the release of XNA Game Studio Express. The video game developer’s toolkit will allow consumers to develop video games for Windows and the Xbox 360 ...

Over 1,000 gamers converged on this recent tournament in Edmonton to compete for cash, prizes, and bragging rights. Intel attended Fragapalooza and celebrated the launch of its latest and most powerful processor, the Core 2 Extreme processor. The new Core 2 Extreme carries 291,000,000 transistors and is over 40% faster ...

Meet the professional girl gamers, the Frag Dolls and others, as Eddie Codel wanders the floor of the Intel Core 2 Duo launch party at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California. See demos of Intel’s new processor in action and hear from those who have already had the chance ...

Eddie Codel shows you what it’s like inside Intel’s Performance Benchmarking Lab by interviewing Matt Dunford, Intel Worldwide Chief Benchmarking Manager, and Regina Wu, Performance Engineer & Mad Gamer.

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“The Future of Pinball” is a film that documents Williams’ plan to recreate the pinball machine and revive a dying industry. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Greg Maletic, who is the producer, writer and director of the documentary, about the challenges the world’s largest pinball manufacturer faced in designing ...

“The Future of Pinball” is a film that documents Williams’ plan to recreate the pinball machine and revive a dying industry.

Hear Rio Pesino’s interview with Greg Maletic, who is the producer, writer and director of the documentary.

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Steve Jobs, former Atari employee? Atari co-founder Al Alcorn tells PodTech’s Rio Pesino about Jobs’ role with Atari, his involvement in some of the historic meetings with the Apple CEO and how the video game manufacturer rejected Jobs’ concept of creating a personal computer.

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Daishiro Okada, President and Chief Operating Officer of Square Enix, Inc. handles operations in North America, including development, marketing and publishing of well-known Square Enix games including Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. PodTech’s Rio Pesino talks with Okada about porting such popular games onto mobile phones and the concept ...

Trip Hawkins, founder of video game juggernaut Electronic Arts and designer of John Madden Football and High Heat Baseball, was at this year’s Mobile Game Conference in Bellevue, WA. Hawkins, who is currently Chairman and CEO of mobile phone game maker Digital Chocolate, spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino ...

During his keynote speech at MGC, Digital Chocolate Chairman and CEO Trip Hawkins called the mobile phone a social computer and stressed the importance of making the mobile phone a first-rate platform.

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Legends of the videogame industry share their thoughts on working for Atari during the early years. Al Alcorn, Eugene Jarvis, Steve Ritchie, Ed Rotberg and Dave Sheppard discuss the stories behind the creation of some of the classic Atari coin-op arcades and why they chose to be a part ...

Eugene Jarvis, creator of breakthrough arcade games such as Defender, Robotron, NARC and Cruis’n USA, tells PodTech’s Rio Pesino about how he got into the video game business and what he thought about games during the golden age of gaming in the 1980’s.

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NVIDIA’s Drew Henry and George Myers introduce NVIDIA nForce(r)-based motherboards, the stable, reliable, high-performance foundation for Windows Vista Capable PCs. Get details on how the combination of NVIDIA nForce-based motherboards and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs are essential ingredients for a great Windows Vista experience.

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