— Freight marketplace Convoy announced John Morrow as its new general counsel, effective Nov. 1. A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through… Read More
— Seattle-based Zillow Group announced leadership changes on its marketing team and in its New York office. Matt Daimler is now senior vice president of product. He was most recently… Read More
When Ken Moss started at the video game company Electronic Arts a little more than four years ago, he was one of the only EA employees working out of PopCap Games… Read More
Former Electronic Arts and Zynga executive Jeff Karp is joining Big Fish Games as managing director and president, responsible for leading the Seattle-based casual games company under its second corporate… Read More
Virtual football collided with real football at a first-of-its-kind event on Thursday evening in Seattle. The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) transformed into a video game party of sorts as the… Read More
After stints with Electronic Arts, Microsoft and SEGA, Peter Moore has landed his “dream” job — but not at a company you might expect. Moore, who spent nearly a decade at… Read More
Electronic Arts announced this week that it just completed its biggest beta test ever. More than 9 million players beta-tested Star Wars Battlefront. And if the results being reported are… Read More
Due to conflicts between EA Sports and the NCAA, 13 players have been removed from the upcoming game FIFA 16. The problem arose when the NCAA said that the women… Read More
For the first time in the franchise’s history, EA’s FIFA games will feature female soccer players. FIFA 16 comes out on September 22. It will include 12 Women’s National Teams: Australia, Brazil, Canada,… Read More
Electronic Arts, the publisher of Titanfall and Plants vs. Zombies, reported earnings today that blew away Wall Street expectations. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company reported a profit of 73 cents… Read More
PopCap co-founder John Vechey announced today that he will be leaving the Seattle-based game development studio just nine months after taking the top job from former CEO Dave Roberts. Vechey… Read More
After running eBay’s Seattle-area office for nearly three years, Ken Moss has left the e-commerce’s satellite office to join Electronic Arts as its new chief technology officer. The announcement was… Read More
Amazing new graphics and head-splitting soundtracks are usually the focus at E3, the annual game conference in Los Angeles, where attendees consider earplugs a mandatory accessory. But today, Electronic Arts showed off a… Read More
PopCap’s John Vechey has some very basic advice for King Digital Entertainment: Make great games. The Candy Crush Saga-maker finally priced its public offering this evening at $22.50 a share… Read More
Since PopCap was acquired by Electronic Arts nearly three years ago, the Seattle-based game maker has had its fair share of troubles: Layoffs, game cancellations, studio closures and executive departures.… Read More
Valve’s Steam platform, Activision Blizzard’s Battle.net and EA’s Origin storefront were all brought down last night by Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks — as an ongoing campaign by digital miscreants started earlier… Read More
PopCap CEO Dave Roberts will be retiring after eight years at the Seattle-based game studio, the Electronic Arts unit known for such hits as Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled. PopCap… Read More
After John Riccitiello stepped down in March, gaming giant Electronic Arts has been on the hunt for a new top exec. Now, EA, which owns Seattle’s PopCap Games, has announced… Read More
Seattle’s PopCap Games has long stood for excellence in casual gaming, and this week’s release of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time is no exception. As the game’s tagline suggests,… Read More
If you’ve been itching for a new plant-based home defense game, Seattle’s PopCap Games has you covered. PopCap, which was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2011, released “Plants vs. Zombies… Read More
A circuit court of appeals today rejected EA’s claim that it was protected by the First Amendment in a lawsuit regarding player likenesses. Former NCAA quarterback Sam Keller accused the… Read More
A jury ruled in favor of the original developer and programmer of EA’s massive Madden NFL franchise on Tuesday, awarding him would could end up being more than $11 million… Read More
Electronic Arts slashed jobs at its Los Angeles and Montreal offices earlier this year, and next up on the chopping block appears to be Vancouver’s PopCap hub. EA, which owns Seattle-based PopCap, confirmed… Read More
Electronic Arts today announced that it is retiring three of its popular Facebook games, including The Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society. The online gaming news site Gamasutra calls the move a… Read More
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello announced today that he’s stepping down from the game maker effective March 30. The company, which owns Seattle-based PopCap Games, also warned that its revenues and… Read More
Seattle-based PopCap Games is back with another game featuring anthropomorphic animals, and this time it’s all about solving mysteries. Hidden Agenda is PopCap’s first ever social hidden object game on… Read More
PopCap Games is cutting back even further, announcing today that it closed its offices in Dublin, Ireland. Ninety-six employees are losing their jobs as a result of the closure, which… Read More
Much is happening for PopCap this week, with the launch of new game Vacation Quest and an online Plants v. Zombies store. All in the midst of buyout rumors of… Read More
Electronic Arts‘ has apparently had enough of its too-close-for-comfort neighbors The Ville. The gaming giant has filed suit against Zynga, accusing the game maker of essentially ripping off their popular… Read More
In yet more breaking news about our evolutionary slide into slothdom, PopCap released details of a study showing that half of U.S. and UK gamers use their mobile devices as… Read More