Friday at The International, Valve’s big eSports competition in Seattle, the nonprofit OpenAI artificial intelligence research company unveiled a bot that defeated one of the world’s top professional gamers in the video game Dota 2, twice,… Read More
The Dota 2 esports tournament in Seattle, known as The International, demonstrates how video games have become hugely popular team sports — and today alpha geek Elon Musk took the… Read More
Valve made a surprise announcement Tuesday about a new game coming in 2018 during The International, the “Dota 2” tournament that it’s hosting at KeyArena in Seattle this week. But… Read More
Why do people spend their hard-earned cash and travel from all around the world to Seattle, just to watch other people play video games? It’s been a question on my… Read More
If you need another reminder of the massive growth of esports, head down to KeyArena in Seattle this week for The International. That’s where the most lucrative esports event of… Read More
The world’s most powerful PC game distribution platform continues to expand its reach and grow its user base. Video-game giant Valve showed new stats about the growth of Steam at the… Read More
Kemper Development‘s Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square projects played an important role in Bellevue’s emergence as a city that attracts top tier tech companies and the well-paid employees that come… Read More
Rick Ellis has his fingerprints all over modern gaming. His chief claim to gaming fame is his role as founder and lead developer of Valve Software’s Steam gaming and marketplace… Read More
Valve has been teasing virtual reality games since last year, but on Friday the Bellevue-based company finally gave details about what’s in store. Don’t get your hopes up: the details… Read More
The European Commission is targeting Bellevue, Wash.-based video game company Valve in a new antitrust probe, officials announced Thursday. The commission is investigating an agreement by game publishers using Valve’s… Read More
Valve boss Gabe Newell took to Reddit for another ask-me-anything session Tuesday afternoon, as the video game legend answered questions ranging from the future of Valve to how he likes… Read More
Technology companies are flocking to Kemper Development Co.’s Lincoln Square expansion project in downtown Bellevue, Wash., from Valve to WeWork, and now potentially Pokémon. The original Lincoln Square, however, hit… Read More
Local gaming company Valve this week responded to claims made by the Washington State Gambling Commission that it facilitates the use of textured digital weapons, known as “skins,” as collateral in online betting,… Read More
A pair of virtual reality/gaming companies are biting off huge chunks of industrial real estate east of Seattle, in an area that is rapidly becoming a hotbed of VR activity.… Read More
NullSpace VR wants to add a little more reality to the virtual reality experience. The company, founded by Morgan Sinko, Jordan Brooks and Lucian Copeland when they were students at… Read More
The Seattle area is rapidly becoming a leader in virtual and augmented reality, with tech giants, mid-sized companies and startups all wading into the cutting edge technology. Bob Berry, Envelop VR… Read More
The Washington State Gambling Commission has ordered Bellevue-based gaming company Valve to halt unregulated gambling taking place within its Counter Strike: Global Offensive online game. In a press release issued Wednesday afternoon,… Read More
HTC Friday morning announced the global launch of Viveport, a virtual reality app store for the HTC Vive, after months of beta testing. The VR store first opened in China in April, and… Read More
A quick visit to Valve’s epic Dota 2 tournament this week in Seattle shows the company’s commitment to virtual reality technology. The championship, held for the sixth-straight year with a record-breaking… Read More
“Welcome to The International!” Key Arena exploded with energy on Monday morning as Valve CEO Gabe Newell kicked off the one of the largest eSports tournaments worldwide, The International. Newell,… Read More
Gaming company Valve has leased approximately 225,000 square feet in the Lincoln Square expansion office tower that is under construction in downtown Bellevue, Wash., more than doubling the size of… Read More
Bellevue-based Valve announced this week that it is sending cease-and-desist letters to third-party sites that use the company’s Steam gaming marketplace to facilitate gambling. The move comes after a gamer from… Read More
A suit filed by a gamer from Connecticut alleges that Valve Corp. “has been complicit in creating, sustaining and facilitating” online gambling on “Counter Strike: Global Offensive” eSports competitions by allowing gamers to link their… Read More
The cost of experiencing virtual reality is going to be high, not just because VR headsets cost upwards of $600, but also because the computers needed to power those headsets are monster… Read More
You’ll be able to pre-order HTC’s virtual reality headset next month. HTC CEO Cher Wang told The Telegraph that her company will take pre-orders for the Vive starting on Feb. 29.… Read More
It was a scary Christmas Day for Steam, the popular gaming platform operated by Bellevue-based Valve. Users of the service started noticing that account information from other game players was… Read More
A Seattle-area man has now upped the ante on creative engagement proposals, taking the old-world practice into virtual reality. Chandler Murch, who works at Valve, invited his girlfriend Kelly Tortorice… Read More
Consumers will have to wait to get their hands on the Vive. HTC and Valve announced Thursday that they will delay the commercial rollout of the Vive virtual reality headset,… Read More
Welcome to 2015, where you can win millions of dollars in one week for being really, really good at video games. That’s what happened in Seattle this weekend for Evil Geniuses,… Read More
Why the heck do people like watching other people play video games? That’s the question we had in mind today at Seattle Center, where thousands of video game fans gathered… Read More