A new wave of layoffs at video game mega-studio Electronic Arts has multiple impacts on the Pacific Northwest gaming industry, including the end of development on a Star Wars video… Read More
The next big Marvel Comics video game is being made in Seattle. Electronic Arts (EA) revealed Monday that it’s opened a new Seattle-based studio called Cliffhanger Games. Cliffhanger’s first project… Read More
Electronic Arts is opening a new office in the Seattle area, with former V1 Interactive head and Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto as its game director. The new studio is working… 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
When game developer PopCap announced last week that it was cutting staff at its Seattle headquarters, the company didn’t say how many employees would be losing their jobs. But a… 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
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
NCAA athletes have moved one step closer to receiving settlement money for having their names and faces used in video games. Hagens Berman, the Seattle-based law firm representing former NCAA… Read More
Titanfall, the popular sci-fi shooter, sold 925,000 units last month in the U.S. Electronic Arts COO Peter Moore reported the statistic on EA’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings call this afternoon,… 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
Microsoft will be center stage tonight as Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall begins to roll out at midnight across the globe. Not only is the Redmond giant counting on tomorrow’s launch of Titanfall to… Read More
NCAA Football 2014 may be the last collegiate football game ever produced by Electronic Arts. Earlier today, EA announced that it would not make its annual NCAA Football game for… Read More
Plants vs. Zombies 2 has been downloaded more than 16 million times since its release last Thursday, making it the largest mobile game launch in the history of Electronic Arts,… 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‘ 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
PopCap Games must be pretty confident in its ability to post strong financial results over the next couple years. Either that or the company likes Electronic Arts for more than… Read More
John Vechey was one of three guys who started PopCap Games eleven years ago, defying the dot-com bust to create one of the most successful companies in casual games, with… Read More
[Updated at 3 p.m.] The rumors were true: Seattle-based PopCap Games, maker of games such as Bejeweled, Plants vs. Zombies and Peggle, has reached a deal to be acquired by… Read More