The so-called “everything store” is looking to go “anywhere.” Amazon announced the launch Tuesday of “Amazon Anywhere,” an immersive shopping experience intended to allow customers to buy physical products, handled… Read More
Unlike Fight Club, the first rule of Chess Club is apparently to talk about what happens in Chess Club, promote it, support it and enjoy it. And it all seems… Read More
Zero Latency VR, the Australia-based virtual reality technology company, is bringing one of its free-roam gaming spaces to the Seattle area. The location will be at 2222 152nd Ave. N.E.… Read More
Regulators in the UK expressed concern about the competitive implications of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision-Blizzard, saying it could hamper the ability of Sony and other companies to… Read More
Growing up as a child in Scotland, one of Richard Tait’s heroes was entrepreneur Richard Branson. After Tait co-founded board game company Cranium in Seattle, he was on a mission… Read More
A modest tee shot away from Boeing’s airplane assembly factory in Renton, Wash., golf balls are taking flight at a sprawling new Topgolf sports and entertainment venue that opened on… Read More
Richard Tait, the longtime Seattle entrepreneur who co-founded the wildly popular board game “Cranium” after spending 10 years at Microsoft, has died. He was 58. Tait passed away on Monday… Read More
The guessing game is coming to Likewise, the Seattle-area startup that offers personalized picks for movies, TV series and other content. The company launched The Likewise Arcade on Wednesday as… Read More
FOLLOW-UP: Worth the drive: An inside look at Topgolf’s newest high-tech sports venue — within range of Seattle Topgolf is ready to swing into action south of Seattle at its… Read More
Weston Karnes talks a good game. Or, more precisely, his new game is good for talking. Karnes is the creator of “Let’s Get Real Bro,” a conversation card game geared… Read More
Microsoft’s plan to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in cash is a whopper by every stretch of the imagination — the biggest in the company’s 47-year-history and more than… Read More
Sports and entertainment company Topgolf is officially bringing a full-scale, high-tech golf and gaming complex to the Seattle area, with plans to break ground on Tuesday in Renton, Wash., at… Read More
A college diploma is considered one of the building blocks for a successful future. If the diploma itself is made out of building blocks, well, congratulations on majoring in meta.… Read More
Seattle-based Rec Room has raised $100 million in new funding. The game development startup is now valued at $1.25 billion after an explosive year of growth in which players used… Read More
The Seattle Sounders FC are getting in on a different sort of “beautiful game” as the club is one of a handful selected to participate in a global celebration of… Read More
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
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
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
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: Ring, the Amazon-owned smart doorbell and security company, unveiled a flying indoor camera on Thursday morning. Sure, it’s cool… Read More
Big Fish Games on Tuesday laid off approximately 250 people as part of a substantial restructuring at the 18-year-old gaming Seattle company. Big Fish employs more than 600 employees according… Read More
Alexa is in the game. Amazon’s voice assistant joins a high-profile voice cast in the release today of the first three episodes of “Starfinder,” the futuristic role playing game that… Read More
We’re just hours away until the kick off of Geeks Gaming for Good, an action-packed Rocket League tournament in which Seattle area companies will compete for glory, prizes and —… 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
Want to have some fun? And support a good cause? The countdown is on for GeekWire’s first-ever virtual sports competition: Geeks Gaming for Good. This one-of-a-kind Rocket League tournament —… Read More
DoubleDown Interactive is rolling the dice on an initial public offering, hoping to raise up to $100 million on the Nasdaq stock market. The company, which has longtime roots in… Read More
Here’s a trivia question for you: In what year did Seattle startup Sporcle, a trivia games company, figure out that it could survive and thrive by taking a large chunk… Read More
Gamers caught up in the release of the new “Minecraft Dungeons” video game on Tuesday probably haven’t given much thought to what they’re wearing. Microsoft and Mojang Studios have partnered… Read More
Inside the board room at the corporate headquarters for VirBELA, chief strategy officer Glenn Sanford invited me to lean forward and put my hand in for a cheer, in the… Read More
Who would have thought a video game could identify potential treatments for COVID-19? Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design certainly thought so, and so far the… Read More
Seattle-based Xplore isn’t due to launch its first Xcraft space probe until late 2021, but it’s already landed in an educational board game. Xtronaut 2.0, a multiplayer game devised by… Read More