Bow to Blood: Last Captain Standing isn’t perfect, but at least it’s really weird. It’s the sophomore release from the Seattle-based studio Tribetoy, and feels as if it was made… Read More
tinyBuild, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. and Amsterdam, is a development studio and publishing house dedicated to bringing out video games that are just plain weird. You can’t really accuse tinyBuild… Read More
Eastshade feels like somebody made an entire game out of a launch trailer. About five minutes after you start a new game, it turns into an endless series of interactive… Read More
Today at the annual GamesBeat Summit in Los Angeles, veteran Seattle-area games developer Chris Taylor made a long-awaited announcement about his next project. His new game, Intergalactic Space Empire, is… Read More
Nintendo made a surprise announcement Wednesday morning at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, unveiling a crossover between one of its tentpole franchises and a recent independent hit that… Read More
The cult indie hit Dwarf Fortress is unexpectedly coming to Steam. Silverlake, Wash.-based designer Tarn Adams, the primary creator of Dwarf Fortress alongside his brother Zach, announced via the company’s Patreon… Read More
Vancouver, B.C.-based indie game developer Red Hook Studios announced on Tuesday that it has begun work on Darkest Dungeon 2, a sequel to the hit 2016 dungeon crawler. The announcement… Read More
Even after spending the better part of 12 hours exploring it, I still don’t quite feel like I have a handle on Astroneer. It’s got a decent tutorial mission, which… Read More
It’s early 1998 in Above the Fold, when the internet was still a slow-loading hell of animated GIFs and your flip phone was strictly for making calls. You’re the new… Read More
The Sega Genesis is best-remembered for Sonic the Hedgehog and its lineup of sports games, but one of the backbones of its library was a particular sort of platform game.… Read More
On Tuesday, Ska Studios’s Salt and Sanctuary releases its “Drowned Tome Edition” for the Nintendo Switch. The package includes the game, a download code for the original Salt and Sanctuary… Read More
The annual Game Awards presentation in Los Angeles on Thursday night included a few surprises, a lot of big announcements, and occasionally, the presentation of a trophy. The Pacific Northwest… Read More
The Vancouver, B.C.-made indie game Celeste picked up a surprise Game of the Year nomination as the annual Game Awards announced their nominations Tuesday. It’s the only independently-produced game in… Read More
A term that describes video game frustration has itself inspired a game from a Seattle-based independent studio. Elo Hell is a new narrative-based adventure from Exato Games. Not sure what “Elo hell” is?… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Tim “The Tim” Ellis is a regular GeekWire contributor and perennial PAX attendee.] Every year at the PAX video game expo in Seattle, rather than facing the growing… Read More
I can’t decide if I like HEADLINER or not. It’s an addictive game — when I sat down to try it out at the Seattle Indies Expo over Labor Day weekend,… Read More
Now that I’ve had plenty of time to recover from four solid days of PAX West over Labor Day weekend (my twelfth PAX West in a row!), I’d like to… Read More
Seattle’s SoDo industrial district might not be the place you would expect to find a den of game developers. But just a few blocks south of the city’s pro sports stadiums, through… Read More
Virtual and Augmented Reality is booming in the Pacific Northwest, and on Friday, a host of fun, talented, and geeky VR enthusiasts will flock to the famous Green Dragon in… Read More
If you’re like me and don’t like crowded spaces, the 100,000-plus square feet of PAX West’s expo hall can feel like a bit of a nightmare. Between the thousands of excited… Read More
Even with four days to take it all in, it’s impossible to experience everything that PAX West has to offer. That’s especially true if you spend hours at a time… Read More