What would you store if you could afford one terabyte — that’s 1,000 gigabytes — of hard disk space? In this podcast, Doug Pickford, director of product and market strategy for enterprise products with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about Hitachi GST’s industry milestone, the ...

The World Series of Video Gamers, sponsored by Intel, was a smash hit at CES. Gaming is one of the fastest growing areas in the entertainment industry, and thanks to Intel’s Core2Duo processors and the next generation of Core2Extreme and Core2Quad featuring four compute engines on one chip, gaming ...

Video game company Activision unveiled a playable version of Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360 at CES 2007. The popular guitar rhythm game is only available in a version released a few months ago for the Sony Playstation 2, but the soon-to-be-released 360 version will have a new guitar ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — The past year saw significant changes in the world of video gaming. In recent months, both Sony and Nintendo released new consoles (the Playstation 3 and the Wii), while earlier on, Microsoft’s Xbox Live service was a huge success ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 16, 2006 (PodTech News) — Predicting extreme weather, like Hurricanes, has come a long way with the help of remote control devices. That same technology, or a version of it, has proven an unprecedented success through NASA’s Mars Rover project. Originally planned as a three-month project, several ...

Kim Sacha is one of the top Zuma players (a popular game on Xbox 360) in the world and she shows us how she does it. Why is this important? Because casual gamers are turning out to be an important market for game designers. Also, women are changing the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 17, 2006 (PodTech News) — Sony’s PS3 went on sale at midnight at stores in the U.S. Many fans began lining up days ago. As the lines in downtown San Francisco grew in anticipation of launch, PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke to gamers and sales staff about the ...

Shan Appajodu of RingCube Technologies talks about MojoPac - his company’s cool new technology that has been variously described as “a computer in your pocket” or “pour your PC into your pocket.”

Recently, MojoPac won the DemoGod award in San Diego, where they first unveiled their product.

Shan ...

In the video game world, there is this idea that games are just for boys. That’s not the case in today’s gaming realm. Recent reports have revealed that 20-percent of “hardcore” gamers are women and that two-thirds of roughly 117 million active online PC gamers are ...

Advertisers are using the Internet to place up-to-date ads in video games. “Dynamic Advertising” is designed to implement fresh, new ads in games. Justin Townsend, CEO of in-game ad firm IGA Worldwide, spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about dynamic ads and why he feels it benefits gamers, game publishers and advertisers.

MENLO PARK, September 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Nintendo has received its first batch of CPU’s for the Wii gaming console. Named “Broadway,” the chips are manufactured by IBM and are key to Wii’s architecture. IDC Senior Industry Analyst IdaRose Sylvester spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about what this means for Wii’s initial launch.

The release of Sony’s next-gen gaming console, Playstation 3, has been pushed back to March 2007 in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia. The PS3 was previously scheduled to launch worldwide in November. PodTech’s Rio Pesino talked with Creative Strategies Research Analyst Tim Bajarin about the impact this news will have on the video game market.

Research analyst firm Wedbush Morgan Securities released a report predicting modest growth in video game sales. The company also raised its expectations for the Nintendo Wii and downgraded its prediction for the Sony Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable. WMS’s Michael Pachter spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the new report, Nintendo DS’s MP3 player add-on and Sony’s announcement not to include an HDMI cable with the PS3.

The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that video games will bring in more than $12 billion dollars this year. In this podcast, CEA’s Sean Wargo talks with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the growth of the industry, the impact next-gen consoles will have on the gaming market and comments on the ...

University of Southern California is one of more than 10 universities adding Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express into their curricula. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Michael Zyda, who is the Director of USC’s Gamepipe game development school, about the impact XNA will have on its program.

Reporters Notes: Even the ...