Gaming is a hobby for most people, but a select few have enough talent and dedication to make it a career. Tournaments for popular games like Halo 3, Guitar Hero, Madden and NBA 2k8 are held all around the world, with huge prizes at stake. In ...

The Nintendo Wii brawled its way to the top of the hardware sales list in March. It was the highest single-month unit sales of any platform outside the holiday timeframe, according to market research firm NPD Group. In this episode of The Reboot, host ...

There’s no doubt Rock Band and Guitar Hero have changed the way videogames are played. The casual and hardcore gamer are paying big bucks for plastic guitars, drums, mics and downloadable content and both games have been hugely successful at retail since they were released late last ...

In this episode of The Reboot with Rio Pesino, the first Grand Theft Auto 4 review is on the Web, weeks before the game’s release on April 29th. Some are questioning the validity of the review of GTA 4, which is the most-hyped game of ...

In this episode of The Reboot, Sonic the Hedgehog fans went nuts after several screenshots and a video trailer of the blue-haired hero’s latest adventure, Sonic Unleashed, were leaked online. SEGA Europe later confirmed that the game will come out this year. In other ...

Downloadable games were the focus of Capcom’s Digital Day. During the press-only event, Capcom did not talk about Street Fighter IV or Resident Evil 5. Instead, the game developer showed off an updated version of and several other games that will soon be available on ...

The Game Developers Conference is underway this week in San Francisco. The Reboot is dashing around to make sure you get the latest from the show. We’ll be posting a full report in our next episode. For now, check out this interview with Randy Stude of ...

The Consumer Electronics Show usually isn’t a big show for gamers, but this year’s event was expected to be different. CES dedicated more show floor space for its Gaming Showcase and there were even rumors that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would reveal a new version of the ...

In his CES keynote, Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini introduced the concept of virtual Smash Mouth, and with a nod to the slew of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) on view on the massive CES show floor, as well as the newer, more powerful laptops and gaming systems on display, he made clear the significance of Intel’s 45 nanometer transistor technology. The bottom line, from Otellini’s keynote: “The Internet is going to come to us.”

The Frag Dolls are showing off their gaming skills at CES 2008 and paid a visit to The Reboot. In this episode, host Rio Pesino has a Q-and-A session with Frag Dolls member Roulette at the PodTech Bloghaus. She gives her thoughts on ...

One of the most anticipated games for the Playstation 3 was on display at CES 2008. LittleBigPlanet is a unique side-scroller that allows users to play the game, create their own characters and design playable levels to share with others online. The Reboot’s Rio ...

In this episode of The Reboot, Fatal1ty, Dave “Walshy” Walsh of Major League Gaming and Regina “Wedge” Wu of the PMS Clan talk about how they became professional gamers, what the “eSport” has done for their careers and what advice they would give to ...

Gaming is fast gaining track in India and Mumbai is the epicenter for the industry. I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore to find out about Kreeda, doing business in India and the challenges of doing business in India. Kreeda bills itself as India’s ...

At their recent launch in New York City, HP Total Care took the spotlight, announcing a program designed to ease IT challenges for the full lifecycle of an HP purchase. HP Total Care’s aim is to provide before, during and after- purchase support, making it easier for companies ...

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: ...

Slot machines have been around since the 1880s and they still do basically the same thing: take your money with the odds clearly slanted towards the house. But they are getting more interesting to play. WMS Gaming has a new series of machines that include touch screen technology but still ...

Women used to be an afterthought in the video game world. Today, more women are involved in the billion-dollar industry as programmers, designers and of course, gamers. According to the Entertainment Software Association, thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of ...

The HP Personal Systems Group recently unveiled its 2008 product line at a celebrity-studded event at Skylight Studios, in Manhattan (and yes, that’s “personal” as in, The Computer is Personal Again). In addition to HP’s new iPAQ handheld communications devices, its MediaSmart PC and MediaSmart Server, and a ...

HP’s Phil McKinney is bullish on the company’s latest innovation for the desktop PC market, the HP Blackbird 002. McKinney is VP and CTO of HP’s personal systems group and general manager of the company’s gaming business unit. Why gaming, why now, and why HP? In this audio podcast, McKinney ...

In this debut episode of The Reboot gaming show, host Rio Pesino takes you back in time to the golden era of video games. Classics like Pong, PacMan, Joust, and hundreds of other old school games were on display at California Extreme 2007 in San Jose, Calif. Big name ...

Susie Wee has a great job — she’s the director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab, which means she works on gaming and entertainment systems. I spoke with Ms. Wee in San Francisco, at an HP Gaming event at which the company showed off several of its ...

Imagine a world in which SWAT teams and local police departments could rehearse responding to shootings and other crises on school campuses using a real-time virtual environment that replicates the school building precisely?

Well, that capability exists, and through state-of-the-art PC-based gaming technology, entire SWAT teams or police departments can take ...

Alok Kejriwal is the founder and CEO of the latest gaming company in India, called Games2win. Founded about four months ago, Alok’s company recently received its first round of funding from Clearstone and Silicon Valley Bank. They received $5 million dollars from both the investors.

I caught up ...

Intel was showing off the power of its Quad-Core processors at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Some of the biggest PC games were playable at Intel’s booth, including Crysis, Hellgate: London and Company of Heroes. PodTech’s Rio Pesino and Intel’s Randy Stude discuss ...