The Rockefeller Foundation brought on Steven VanRoekel as its chief operating officer. VanRoekel was chief information officer for the U.S. under President Obama, a role in which he helped the… Read More
Seattle-based game developer Harebrained Schemes has launched pre-orders for its upcoming PC game BattleTech, reviving a famous science fiction franchise that began in 1984 as a tabletop game by developer Jordan… Read More
Jordan Weisman and Mitch Gitelman have been making games for a long time. But in a rapidly changing landscape, the co-founders of Kirkland, Wash.-based Harebrained Schemes have emerged as premiere players… Read More
Hyper Rabbit Power Go! (Hyper RPG!) is a new Redmond, Wash.-based Twitch channel debuting today, which will live stream shows about gamers, video games role-playing games and board games, along with behind-the-scenes game… Read More
Jordan Weisman is well on his way to yet another Kickstarter success. The Seattle-based veteran entrepreneur and CEO of Harebrained Schemes is back with another game and this morning launched a… Read More
`Harebrained Schemes seems to have a knack for crushing Kickstarter funding goals. The Seattle-based gaming startup has raised more than $930,000 for its new version of Shadowrun Returns called Shadowrun: Hong Kong. The company originally… Read More
2012 will be remembered as the year that crowdfunding came into its own — letting creators of all sorts tap the power of online communities to provide a new funding… Read More
The gaming panel today at the WTIA’s TechNW conference featured some well-known names from the industry talking about a wide variety of trends and technologies: Bungie‘s Pete Parsons, veteran game designer… Read More
Nearly every week there’s a new survey or study out showcasing how Seattle’s technology community ranks among the top in jobs, wages, venture capital or some other metric. Just today,… Read More
Jordan Weisman is a veteran game designer who made headlines this year for an epic Kickstarter campaign, raising $1.8 million for Shadowrun Returns, a revival of the franchise from his… Read More
Today we’re excited to announce several new speakers for Seattle 2.0 Startup Day, the one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial boot camp to be presented by GeekWire on Sept. 22 in Bellevue. And a… Read More
We love telling the stories of startups here at GeekWire, chronicling the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial voyage. Heck, we’re taking that voyage ourselves as newbie entrepreneurs, and I… Read More
We’ve been having fun tracking the progress of Jordan Weisman’s Kickstarter campaign for Shadowrun Returns, watching in amazement after it blew past its original $400,000 goal in 28 hours. Now,… Read More
Shadowrun Returns, the revival of Seattle-area game designer Jordan Weisman’s classic franchise, broke through the $1.5 million mark overnight in pledges on Kickstarter. That’s more than three times the original… Read More
We’ve been closely tracking the amazing response to the Kickstarter campaign for Shadowrun Returns, the revival of Jordan Weisman’s popular role-playing video-game. And we thought it was impressive when the project… Read More
Ryan Payton, a former video game designer at Microsoft who worked as a narrative designer on Halo 4, is the latest Seattle area gaming veteran to turn to Kickstarter to… Read More
The University of Washington Bothell is located on the edge of a marshy wetland, created by a vibrant ecosystem around North Creek. You might say it makes for the perfect… Read More
Early in his career, Seattle video game designer Jordan Weisman developed titles such as BattleTech and MechWarrior. But his latest offering is going after a slightly different demographic. Weisman, along… Read More
Some people go camping on Labor Day Weekend, while others fire up the BBQ. But an awful lot of folks seem to have chosen to command a fleet full of… Read More
Bungie Aerospace, a new effort by the creators of the blockbuster “Halo” franchise to partner with independent game developers, will preview the first fruits of that initiative at the Penny… Read More