Gordon Li grew up obsessed with playing video games — maybe a bit too much, in his parents’ opinion, he says. But any parent would be proud if their kid… Read More
Richard Sherman always talked a good game, and backed it up, especially during his years with the Seattle Seahawks. Now the cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers is talking gaming… Read More
Microsoft is putting together a heck of a team to get kids interested in coding, and the stars are LeBron James and Bugs Bunny. The tech giant announced Monday that… Read More
Washington state’s video games industry overtook Texas last year and claimed the No. 2 spot for total economic output, as the U.S. video game industry grew to new heights yet… Read More
Paris? New York? Hawaii? Over the Grand Canyon? If you could fly anywhere, even on an imaginary flight via “Microsoft Flight Simulator,” where would you go? The answer to the… Read More
Nintendo reported another blockbuster quarter for the sale of its Switch video game console, moving 6.86 million units between July and September. Nintendo has now sold 68.3 million Switch devices… Read More
“This is cool, baby.” Hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg reacted to the temperature and the birthday gift he received from Microsoft when he checked out a fully stocked Xbox Series X… Read More
Chanee Choi’s “Pandemic” is a video game and it is art. And the “art game” is not an escape from reality as we know it right now. A Ph.D. candidate… Read More
Amazon rebranded a video game-related benefit for Prime members on Monday, renaming Twitch Prime to Prime Gaming. Prime Gaming will offer more new content and free games, plus a monthly… Read More
Nintendo continues to put up impressive numbers for the Switch video game console as well as its hot game title, “Animal Crossing: New Horizons.” For the quarter ending June 30,… Read More
A day after leaked images and a short teaser video hinted at a unique expansion of their partnership, LEGO Group and Nintendo have released official word of a new LEGO… Read More
If you’re already spending countless hours playing video games during the pandemic quarantine, why not get paid for the effort? HighSpeedInternet.com, an internet service provider comparison site, is offering $1,000… Read More
Little more than a month after a much-hyped entry into big-budget video games, Amazon is pulling back “Crucible,” its new free-to-play PC shooter, and moving the title to closed beta.… Read More
Growing up in Mexico City, Fernando Reyes Medina’s love for video games and desire to be a game designer was fueled in part by the “Halo” franchise. As a teen… Read More
PAX West, the giant video game convention originally planned for Labor Day weekend in Seattle, is being turned into a 9-day, free online event as COVID-19 forced organizers to cancel… Read More
XPRIZE’s latest program to incentivize innovation is going after a new demographic: young people between the ages of 10 and 18 who are up for developing video games that play… Read More
They can’t step on real grass, swing for real fences or hear the cheers of real fans, but Seattle Mariners players are still getting in some baseball, albeit virtually, during… Read More
I called Roundguard dangerous when I saw it at last year’s PAX West, and now that I’ve played the full version, I’m standing by that. It’s a deliberate fusion between… Read More
Update, March 11, 8:50 a.m. PT: ESA has confirmed that E3 is canceled. The organizer is looking into options for an “online experience to showcase industry announcements and news in June… Read More
— Nintendo is on a roll. Though its current console, the Nintendo Switch, doesn’t boast the same type of processing power as Microsoft’s Xbox One or Sony’s PlayStation 4, it… Read More
— Math is one of those subjects that seems to be divisive among students as they grow up. Basically, you love it or you hate it. There aren’t many middle-of-the-road… Read More
— Women can get left behind or overlooked for their abilities to contribute to evolving technologies such as cloud computing. The Women in Cloud Summit aims to change that. Now… Read More
— How did Outlook’s mobile app reach 100 million users since launching in 2015? Hear from Outlook Mobile team leader and longtime Microsoft employee Michael Palermiti talk about his learnings… Read More
-There might not be any snow on the ground just yet, but Seattle’s Pacific Science Center will have plenty of it starting Dec. 21. A special installation called Snowzone will… Read More
There was a popular Scott Pilgrim discussion going on at the same time. But the room was still packed at an unassuming panel called “Geek Girls Exist” at the 2010… Read More
In the world of “Minecraft” — the best-selling video game in history — players know that they’re never supposed to dig straight down as they explore and create new worlds.… Read More
— The ability to travel through the stars is something that we all dream of, but in reality, becoming one of those people is very, very hard. But you can… Read More
Sony has been conspicuously quiet for much of 2019. It’s teased a handful of major first-party video game releases – The Last of Us Part 2, Hideo Kojima’s hallucinatory action… Read More
At the end of July, more than 50 Seattle-area girls accomplished something most kids don’t: they completed a working prototype of an original video game in three weeks. They did… Read More
— Working in video games is something lots of young (and not so young) people aspire to do. But it can be tough to get legitimate career advice. In hopes… Read More