The 2007-2008 NBA season is underway, and what better way to celebrate than to review 2k Sports‘ NBA 2k8. The NBA 2k series is widely considered to be the best basketball game out on the market, with realistic gameplay, a deep Association mode and signature shots. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino gives his review of the game. Also on the show, Super Mario Galaxy sales skyrocket in Japan, Take-Two settles its Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee lawsuits and Sony sells the Cell.

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: Legends of Rock. E for All also hosted a number of other events, including the Video Games Live concert, Major League Gaming tournament and an NBA Live 08 video game competition between NBA ballers Derek Fisher, Corey Maggette and the “Michael Jordan” of video games, Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel. On this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino previews the most popular games at the event. Also on the show, Sony’s games unit is projected to take a financial hit, Capcom plans to release yet another Resident Evil movie and Nvidia unveils its newest graphics card.

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 controversy surrounding Rockstar Games’ Manhunt 2, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 holiday bundle and the debut of the very first Xbox Live commercial game created by an advertiser.

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 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the gaming population (31 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (20 percent). In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino interviews the Frag Dolls, Sheri Graner Ray of Women in Games International and others in the gaming industry about the rise of women gamers. Also on The Reboot, Master Chief is back to finish the fight on Halo 3, Playstation Portable sales are on the rise in Japan and a 12-year-old gamer gets his company $6.5 million in funding.

Rock Band, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Need for Speed ProStreet were just a few of the latest games being shown at the 4th annual Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Wash. Nearly 40,000 people attended this year’s festival, which features tabletop, PC and console games from over 40 game publishers like Microsoft, Sony and Ubisoft. A few well-known figures were also at PAX ‘07, including actor Wil Wheaton and the Frag Dolls. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino previews some of the most anticipated games shown at the event, and also talks about the UK’s love for the Nintendo Wii, the new and visually-improved Playstation 2 and the return of Nokia’s ”N-Gage.”

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 gamers at the event included Al Alcorn, co-founder of Atari, and Mark Robichek, one of the best Frogger players in gaming history. Also in this episode, we'll cover the highly-anticipated release of Madden 08, MTV's $500 million gaming investment, and Halo 3's record-breaking feat.