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PC Gamer Podcast Launched

Posted by Zonk on from the podcasting-is-a-term-that's-sticking-around-deal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PC Gamer magazine has started up a weekly podcast show featuring editors discussing the week in PC gaming news and interviews with big-name guests. The first episode discusses the new Chinese government's restrictions on gaming, Battlefield 2's accessibility, and an interview with Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor. Taylor, of Total Annihilation and Dungeon Siege fame, talks about the newly-released Dungeon Siege II, the upcoming Uwe Boll movie based on the Dungeon Siege games, and the 'spiritual successor' to Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander."

16 comments

  1. Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...I hate the term "podcasting" and sincerly hope that it will not be sticking around.

    1. Re:Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah. Podcast is one of the dumber made-up words I've heard of... it's completely pointless, too. It's like renaming driving a car "Hondatraveling" or something stupid like that.

    2. Re:Let me be the first to say... by Winckle · · Score: 0

      I'd agree, but I need something to listen to when I catch my Easyjetflyer

    3. Re:Let me be the first to say... by KrisW · · Score: 1

      It's like renaming driving a car "Hondatraveling" or something stupid like that.

      This rarely happens to me while reading Slashdot, but that literally made me laugh out loud.

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    4. Re:Let me be the first to say... by blackicye · · Score: 1

      The only kind of "podcasting" I ever want to hear about again is the kind where they're tossed off the observation deck of the Empire State Building and embed themselves into the pavement below.

    5. Re:Let me be the first to say... by Dan+Farina · · Score: 1

      So I am not the only one who thinks this way? The moment I saw it in the headline, I cringed, but resolved not to comment about it because it was offtopic.

      Now that the topic has been broached, I can say:
      Amen brother.

  2. Great... by azrane2005 · · Score: 0

    Great, yet another podcast. Honestly, if someone wants so desperately to hear people talk about games, or with those involved with games, then they should turn their televisions to G4. That channel's turned back into a big TV crapfest.

  3. Transcripts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'd love to read the Taylor interview but I'm not going to waste my time and bandwidth on an audio version. The guy is a game design hero, but that doesn't make his ummms and ahhs any more interesting...
    Will the interview be in the magazine, on the website, or just for the neopseudoradio*?

    *god dammit. "podcast".

    1. Re:Transcripts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We are working on making a transcript of the podcast to post up over at www.SupComU.com.

      Its just not fun doing so, and its taking me sometime to complete. Keep watching though.

      Nexus

  4. This isn't the first time by dsparil · · Score: 1

    PC Gamer had "PC Gamer Radio" when Shoutcast was first released. It was basically the same thing, but it was a stream at a specific time each week rather than a download. The only difference is that now "podcasting" is the lastest craze rather than streaming audio. Ziff-Davis Publishing even had an entire website of ad-free streaming talk shows called Give Me Talk which is unsurprisingly gone.

  5. The old CDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I liked the old CDs with the cheezy Macromedia Myst-alike walkthrough and Coconut Monkey. Though I thought Coconut Monkey was stupid, it was fun to hotspot-hunt cause they usually put in something neat if you looked around.

    1. Re:The old CDs by KrisW · · Score: 1

      I'm not sure if it was PC Gamer, but I remember an old PC demo disc from some magazine that had a Myst-like interface, done in a sort of film-nior/detective movie type of style. You had to "uncover the clues" in the form of the demos on the disc. It was gimmicky, but it seemed cool to me at the time.

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  6. I think the general consensus is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So?

  7. stopit stop stop by coaxeus · · Score: 1

    using the term "podcast" which has NOTHING to do with casting, or ipods. thankyoucomeagain.

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  8. Let me be the first to say... by Xarius · · Score: 1

    I completely agree, call it what it damn well is. At most it's an audio weekly, it's a downloaded file. Sure the term would be valid if it was automagically beamed to your iPod regularly, whenever you were near an internet access point.

    Until we have that, stop calling it this, kthx.

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  9. No thanks by Kizzle · · Score: 1

    I'll be sticking with G.A.M.E.Radio thank you very much.

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