http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/ A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com) en Copyright 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 11:46:37 -0400 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Some folks from Nintendo's public relations team are in town today showing off the company's new "Mario Kart" racing game for the Wii at Union Station. The video game company is the middle of a 12-city tour to drum up some buzz for its latest title, and is, at the... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/05/nintendos_mario_kart_wii_at_un.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/05/nintendos_mario_kart_wii_at_un.html Mike Musgrove Thu, 08 May 2008 11:46:37 -0400 Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive Software announced today that the latest version of the popular and controversial game has sold 6 million units globally in its first week on the market. Put it another way, that's $500 million in sales. The company says it sold 3.6 million copies of... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/05/gta_iv_6_million_sold.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/05/gta_iv_6_million_sold.html Mike Musgrove Wed, 07 May 2008 15:40:01 -0400 British comedian Eddie Izzard isn't famous for his consumer tech humor, as far as I know, but he worked many observations and riffs about technology into his act last night at DAR Constitution Hall. Izzard, known by some for his role on the TV program The Riches, and to others... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/05/eddie_izzards_iphone.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/05/eddie_izzards_iphone.html Mike Musgrove Fri, 02 May 2008 11:23:34 -0400 Predictably enough, the new Grand Theft Auto game is selling briskly. One local DC game store tells me they've already sold 200 or so copies of the title, which was released yesterday. They have a few left, but those are all reserved copies for customers who already put a few... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/gta_hits_the_shelves.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/gta_hits_the_shelves.html Mike Musgrove Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:40:13 -0400 The Rockville-based ZeniMax Media Inc., parent company of game developer Bethesda Softworks, announced today that it is opening a publishing subsidiary based in Tokyo. Bethesda Softworks is a household name among gamers because of its bestselling and critically acclaimed title Oblivion, which was an epic sword-and-sorcery sorta thing. This fall,... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/bethesda_softworks_parent_goes.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/bethesda_softworks_parent_goes.html Mike Musgrove Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:56:32 -0400 Has Grand Theft Auto IV already been leaked to the Web? Looks like some Xbox 360 owners are already playing the thing -- thanks to the software tools that Microsoft put into its Xbox Live service, it's easy enough to check online and see that at least a few people... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/gta_iv_leaked.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/gta_iv_leaked.html Mike Musgrove Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:50:30 -0400 Do u has the skillz? The humor Web site "I Can Has Cheezburger?" is now seeking applications for somebody to help sort through the 7,000 submissions it gets every day. The site is famous for posting users' pictures of cats snapped in cute or awkward poses. Each shot is accompanied... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/lolcats_now_hiring.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/lolcats_now_hiring.html Mike Musgrove Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:22:17 -0400 Well, it might have only been a matter of time before something like this happened, thanks to the soaring popularity of those handy GPS devices. A charter-bus drive in Washington state ran into a pedestrian bridge last week. Seems that the driver was paying attention to his GPS device --... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/bus_accident_blamed_on_drivers.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/bus_accident_blamed_on_drivers.html Mike Musgrove Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:45:16 -0400 This has turned out to be a good week, I guess, for fans of 80s-era metal bands who also like video games.... For the first time, according to an announcement just hitting my inbox from developer Harmonix and MTV Games, fans of the video game Rock Band will be able... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/rock_star_and_guitar_hero_love.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/rock_star_and_guitar_hero_love.html Mike Musgrove Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:27:22 -0400 Consumers are getting a little extra something with their movie purchases this spring, in a few cases. Pick up one of a few DVDs or Blu-ray discs and users will also get a digital file of the flick that they can easily throw onto their iPod or PDA. Take the... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/digital_copy_new_dvds_and_blur.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/digital_copy_new_dvds_and_blur.html Mike Musgrove Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:30:03 -0400 You know that trend we wrote about a couple of months ago about the proliferation of unusual game titles and "non games" like "Endless Ocean" onto the Nintendo Wii and DS? Still going on in full force, it seems. This week, two new unlikely-seeming titles for the mobile game device... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/new_for_nintendo_air_traffic_c.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/new_for_nintendo_air_traffic_c.html Mike Musgrove Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:31:51 -0400 Ever have a hankering for a fun party video game that you could play with your kids, but which also incorporated some witty-ish jabs about the political process? Yeah -- me neither. But that's about the best way to describe an upcoming called Hail to the Chimp, due out next... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/hail_to_the_chimp_bungie_found.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/hail_to_the_chimp_bungie_found.html Mike Musgrove Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:47:43 -0400 A Linden Lab worker put on her nicest black suit and her most formal pair of wings this morning, to help run a Congressional subcomittee hearing about online virtual worlds that was broadcast simultaneously in the company's own virtual world, Second Life. Okay, this might be a little confusing, but... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/congress_goes_virtual_in_onlin.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/04/congress_goes_virtual_in_onlin.html Mike Musgrove Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:09:47 -0400 It was a geek double-header at Google's Washington offices yesterday afternoon, where Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Oxford University and Professor Larry Lessig of Stanford Law School showed up to share some of their thoughts about the future of the Web. Zittrain's talk was based around his new book, "The Future... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/lessig_zittrain_talk_at_google.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/lessig_zittrain_talk_at_google.html Mike Musgrove Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:58:02 -0400 If you're going to get beat by anybody at Guitar Hero, it might as well be by one of the guys who invented the game. Red Octane founders Charles and Kai Huang were in Washington on Friday. If you've ever picked up a habit for one of the Guitar Hero... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/red_octane.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/red_octane.html Mike Musgrove Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:45:12 -0400