The release of Halo 3 was the biggest video game launch in history, garnering more than $300 million in sales in the first week, alone. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino gives his review of the game, and also talks about the ...

The E for All Expo is just days away and one of the major attractions at the event is a friendly competition with NBA stars Derek Fisher, Corey Maggette and the Michael Jordan of video games, Fatal1ty. The three will be particpating in an

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 San Jose Mercury News spent a day at the TechCrunch40 conference talking to companies and getting demos of new products. This interview, with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin, is one of several videos we’re publishing from the conference. Tech-watchers will remember two years ago when Flock was being ...

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 ...

I went to the iPhoneDevCamp, where I met Nicole Lazzaro, founder of XEODesign, who helps video game designers make their games more fun to use. While at the iPhoneDevCamp (by the way, you can check out another video up from here) she tells me why the iPhone is ...

Here’s a short version of just the highlights of the interview and demo I filmed with Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate, a hot new video game distributor.

Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate, demonstrates a new video game distribution platform and some of the hottest new games on the Web today.

Kongregate is the hottest new game site on the Web. More than 1,000 games. Traffic that more than doubled from last month. Hot games that lots of people are talking about. A co-founder that came from Electronic Arts. Meet Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate and learn what’s up in ...

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.

Note: Due to technical issues, this podcast is not up to PodTech quality standards. Additional coverage from WWDC 2007 will ...

Video game physics, animation and visual effects are very important aspects in creating a realistic and fun gaming experience. Havok is one company that enhances that experience, providing game developers with a modular suite of tools that allows them to reach new standards in realism and interactivity in their ...

Middleware firm Emergent Game Technologies launched its new set of game development tools, named Emergent Elements, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Emergent’s technology has been used in a number of popular video games, including The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Sid Meier’s Civilization ...

SoftImage, is known for its character creation and effects tools used by animators and digital artists in the film, broadcast, and video game industries. The company’s software has been used in games created by companies including Electronic Arts and Capcom, as well as films such as

Thousands of people in the videogame industry are expected to meet in San Francisco this week for the Game Developers Conference. The five-day event will feature keynote speeches, workshop sessions and panel discussions. Companies including Sony, Intel and Microsoft are attending this year’s show. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Conference Manager Jane Pinckard about the event and whether its trying to be the new E3, which used to be gaming’s biggest expo.

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 ...

Intel says it has developed an 80-core microprocessor chip that could enable PCs and chip-enabled devices to perform Teraflop level computing. The company will offer more details of its research in a series of scientific papers at the annual Integrated Solid State Circuits Conference this week in San Francisco. ...

Sports and technology were on display at ESPN’s stage at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. In recent years, the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” has implemented podcasts, blogs and interactive video on its popular website and in video games created by game developer EA Sports. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke ...

The world’s largest chipmaker and Microsoft teamed up at CES to sponsor the World Series of Video Games, a gaming competition on various platforms, open to the public. On display: PCs powered by the Intel Core2 Extreme Dual and Quad core processors, Xbox 360s and two full-scale replicas of F1 ...

Gentlemen (and ladies of course) start your blogs. Opening Day of the Bloghaus saw an overflow crowd of bloggers, video bloggers and podcasters. The event, which was sponsored by Seagate, Microsoft and AMD, jam-packed a wide-spectrum of community media into a Bellagio Hotel Suite, all amid the activity around CES ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Samsung’s plan to introduce its OneDRAM fusion memory in 2007 could mean much speedier smartphones. The company announced the device this week, amid the year-end predictions from analysts and enthusiasts for everything from cell phones to start-ups. We look to the ...

NVIDIA partnered up with America’s Top Model Adrianne Curry to show off the power of its new GeForce 8800 graphics cards. During NVIDIA’s Reality Redefined Event, in San Jose, Calif., a virtual version of Curry was on display on PC’s scattered throughout the show floor. Curry and husband Christopher ...

Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders to meet and talk about change … and more of the same.

Veer wanted me to talk about podcasting, not the nuts and bolts, but where it’s at and its relevance to the radio paradigm. That’s a juicy opportunity, I thought to myself, and so found myself making the difficult journey to North Mumbai (needs planning and a sort of instinctive feel for which combination of segments and modes of transport make it the least painful overall).

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 ...

LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2006, (PodTech News) — DEMOfall 2006 is underway in San Diego this week. Billed as the premier launch venue for new products, technologies and companies, the invitation-only event includes a presentation by Solid State Networks.

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.