PC Gamer Podcast Launched

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."

Let me be the first to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[KrisW]

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.

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[blackicye]

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.

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[Dan Farina]

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.

Let me be the first to say...

[Xarius]

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.

This isn't the first time

[dsparil]

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.

Re:The old CDs

[KrisW]

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.

stopit stop stop

[coaxeus]

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

No thanks

[Kizzle]

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