Games – Page 69 of 71

Jan 6, 2012, 2:05 PM

Tickets on sale for Seattle stop of ‘Legend of Zelda’ symphony tour

Know the “Legend of Zelda” theme? Play it in your head. Right now. “Da, daaa, da-da-da-da-daaaaa!” Feels good, right? Hearing… Read More

Jan 6, 2012, 10:22 AM

Steam on a roll as Valve targets bigger screens for games

The Steam video-game platform for Macs and Windows PCs grew substantially in 2011 — with unit sales of games rising… Read More

Jan 4, 2012, 12:32 PM

The ‘secret sauce’ behind Zynga’s first hidden object game

Zynga is best known for social games such as FarmVille and CityVille in which players interact with one another on… Read More

Dec 26, 2011, 9:28 AM

What’s in the cards for DoubleDown as online gambling talk heats up?

It is looking increasingly likely that Americans — at least in some states — will soon be able to wager… Read More

Dec 16, 2011, 10:58 AM

Zynga celebrates $1 billion IPO with a colorful infographic

Zynga’s growth over the past few years into the top maker of social media games is pretty amazing stuff. And… Read More

Dec 15, 2011, 2:56 PM

Social gaming powerhouse Zynga raises $1B in largest Internet IPO since Google

The highly-anticipated initial public offering for Zynga is moving forward, with Bloomberg News reporting that the maker of FarmVille, Mafia… Read More

Dec 8, 2011, 8:56 AM

Nintendo: Super Mario creator Miyamoto is not retiring

Was something lost in translation? Wired yesterday reported that legendary Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto — the creator of Super Mario… Read More

Dec 8, 2011, 12:01 AM

Zipline releases WolfToss on iOS, Android and Chrome

The significance of WolfToss isn’t necessarily the game itself — though Zipline Games co-founder Todd Hooper admits that he spent… Read More

Dec 6, 2011, 5:26 PM

Newsmakers 2011: Neil Roseman helps bring Zynga to Seattle

One of the biggest stories in Seattle tech in 2011 was the arrival of the Silicon Valley tech titans. It… Read More

Dec 6, 2011, 10:47 AM

Newsmakers 2011: Mariachi and margaritas mark wild year for Double Down’s Walcott, Enell

Executives at Double Down Interactive hired a mariachi band to entertain staffers at a company meeting in September — a special… Read More

Dec 2, 2011, 1:42 PM

New game degree: DigiPen creates MFA in Digital Arts

DigiPen Institute of Technology, the Redmond-based school specializing in interactive entertainment and video-game technology, has created a new Master of… Read More

Dec 2, 2011, 10:47 AM

Newsmakers 2011: Z2Live CEO David Bluhm builds a mobile games powerhouse

Z2Live CEO David Bluhm — a veteran Seattle entrepreneur and gaming executive — likes to say that his company batted… Read More

Nov 29, 2011, 12:41 PM

Microsoft: Xbox 360 registers biggest week in its history

Microsoft says its Xbox 360 sold more than 960,000 units in the U.S. during the past week, setting a new… Read More

Nov 25, 2011, 1:49 PM

Apple pulls subscription service from Big Fish Games, removes Play Instantly from the app store

Earlier this week, Big Fish Games announced a new subscription gaming app that allowed iPhone users to pay a monthly… Read More

Nov 23, 2011, 5:32 AM

Big Fish pioneers new subscription game service for the iPad

For years, here’s how things worked in Apple’s app store. You discovered a mobile app you liked, and then you… Read More

Nov 22, 2011, 2:48 PM

Kyle Kesterson enters Startup Battle with tapeworm game, and help from Sir Mix-A-Lot

At Startup Weekend in Seattle earlier this month, Seattle artist and designer Kyle Kesterson and crew wowed the crowd with… Read More

Nov 18, 2011, 8:07 AM

Nintendo’s Fils-Amie loves Zelda, and presents a very special gift to Jimmy Fallon

Reggie Fils-Aime certainly has no shortage of choices when it comes to picking a favorite game. But, as it turns… Read More

Nov 17, 2011, 2:33 PM

U4iA looks to target hardcore social gamers with new studio

Two former Activision employees have started a new studio in Bellevue called U4iA to develop what it dubs “hardcore, browser-based… Read More

Nov 15, 2011, 9:44 PM

Have fun blowing stuff up: Z2Live offers sneak peek of new iOS game Battle Nations

Seattle upstart Z2Live, the fast-growing mobile gaming company, is getting ready to unleash its latest iPhone game. And you better… Read More

Nov 15, 2011, 4:45 PM

Startup secrets from PopCap’s Dave Roberts, and why it really matters to be lucky

What made PopCap Games such a blockbuster success? Well, a lot of things went into the Seattle company’s growth over… Read More

Nov 10, 2011, 3:21 PM

Valve says intruders accessed Steam customer database

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell just sent a message to users of the company’s Steam video-game platform disclosing that online intruders… Read More

Nov 10, 2011, 1:51 PM

Ignition scares up another deal in San Fran, backs 19-year-old’s MinoMonsters

For the third time this week, Ignition Partners has pumped cash into a San Francisco Bay Area startup. This time,… Read More

Nov 9, 2011, 10:39 AM

Newsmakers 2011: PopCap’s founders and their big EA deal

More than a decade ago, in the middle of the dot-com bust, John Vechey, Jason Kapalka and Brian Fiete founded… Read More

Nov 2, 2011, 9:49 AM

Why did Big Fish Games just issue a special dividend to employees?

It is a bit unusual for a privately-held technology company to issue dividends to employees and shareholders. But that’s exactly… Read More

Oct 27, 2011, 9:31 AM

Look out, Mario: Nintendo projects first-ever annual loss

Here’s a reminder of just how fickle the video-game business can be. Nintendo this morning released a revised financial forecast… Read More

Oct 25, 2011, 5:36 AM

Valve’s Newell predicts Apple will shake up game consoles

Over the weekend we posted Valve co-founder Gabe Newell’s recent comments about the pricing experiments that the company conducts using its Steam… Read More

Oct 23, 2011, 9:17 AM

How Valve experiments with the economics of video games

Valve Corp., the Bellevue-based video game company behind hit franchises like Half-Life and Portal, is a giant in the digital… Read More

Oct 12, 2011, 10:59 AM

5th Cell’s innovative Scribblenauts arrives on iPhone, iPad

Scribblenauts, a game from Bellevue-based developer 5th Cell, blew the minds of video-game nerds around the world when it was… Read More

Oct 11, 2011, 1:21 PM

Valve has high hopes for its ‘non-sucky educational game’

Valve, the Bellevue company behind the Steam video-game platform and hit games such as Portal and Half-Life, is developing a… Read More

Oct 10, 2011, 1:01 PM

PopCap celebrates wedding anniversary of Maryland couple with oversized ‘diamond’

This is a story of love … and video games. Sometimes men propose over dinner or drinks or on the… Read More