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Review: ‘The Church in the Darkness’ game is a creepy, difficult trip through a South American jungle

The Church in the Darkness, a game from Seattle-based Paranoid Productions that took nearly five years to develop, is a… Read More

Review: Myst creator Cyan Worlds breaks into indie publishing with ‘Zed,’ an interactive memoir in VR

Cyan Worlds, the Spokane, Wash.-based studio that produced the best-selling Myst franchise, today debuted the first game out of its… Read More

Review: Seattle studio Tribetoy brings its space pirate reality show out of VR with ‘Bow to Blood’

Bow to Blood: Last Captain Standing isn’t perfect, but at least it’s really weird. It’s the sophomore release from the… Read More

Review: ‘Swag and Sorcery’ from tinyBuild is a lot of things, but mostly it’s about the grind

tinyBuild, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. and Amsterdam, is a development studio and publishing house dedicated to bringing out video games… Read More

Review: Paint a fantasy landscape with indie game ‘Eastshade,’ developed by Seattle-area studio

Eastshade feels like somebody made an entire game out of a launch trailer. About five minutes after you start a… Read More

Ex-Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor reveals new solo indie project ‘Intergalactic Space Empire’

Today at the annual GamesBeat Summit in Los Angeles, veteran Seattle-area games developer Chris Taylor made a long-awaited announcement about… Read More

Nintendo reveals surprising new Switch game ‘Cadence of Hyrule,’ a Zelda-themed sequel to recent indie hit

Nintendo made a surprise announcement Wednesday morning at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, unveiling a crossover between one… Read More

Washington-based brothers behind ‘Dwarf Fortress’ to unexpectedly launch cult indie game on Steam

The cult indie hit Dwarf Fortress is unexpectedly coming to Steam. Silverlake, Wash.-based designer Tarn Adams, the primary creator of Dwarf… Read More

Indie developer Red Hook Studios working on ‘Darkest Dungeon 2,’ a sequel to 2016 hit

Vancouver, B.C.-based indie game developer Red Hook Studios announced on Tuesday that it has begun work on Darkest Dungeon 2,… Read More

Game review: Explore and colonize other worlds in ‘Astroneer’ … if you can get past the learning curve

Even after spending the better part of 12 hours exploring it, I still don’t quite feel like I have a… Read More

Game preview: Create your own ’90s newspaper in editor-in-chief simulator ‘Above the Fold’

It’s early 1998 in Above the Fold, when the internet was still a slow-loading hell of animated GIFs and your… Read More

Game Review: Play through the occasionally frustrating adventures of a 16-bit superhero in ‘Grapple Force Rena’

The Sega Genesis is best-remembered for Sonic the Hedgehog and its lineup of sports games, but one of the backbones… Read More

‘We’re going to find out if it’s a horrible idea’: James and Michelle Silva put a physical edition of their indie hit ‘Salt and Sanctuary’ on store shelves

On Tuesday, Ska Studios’s Salt and Sanctuary releases its “Drowned Tome Edition” for the Nintendo Switch. The package includes the… Read More

‘Celeste’ and ‘Into the Breach’ take home prizes amid a few surprises at the Game Awards 2018

The annual Game Awards presentation in Los Angeles on Thursday night included a few surprises, a lot of big announcements,… Read More

Pacific Northwest-made indie video game ‘Celeste’ picks up long shot Game of the Year nomination

The Vancouver, B.C.-made indie game Celeste picked up a surprise Game of the Year nomination as the annual Game Awards… Read More

Exato Games’ ‘Elo Hell’ is a video game sitcom about e-sports athletes, and it’s about the struggle

A term that describes video game frustration has itself inspired a game from a Seattle-based independent studio. Elo Hell is a new… Read More

Tim's daughter Maezie enjoyed the Donut County demo at PAX

The Tim’s PAX Indie Game Awards

[Editor’s Note: Tim “The Tim” Ellis is a regular GeekWire contributor and perennial PAX attendee.] Every year at the PAX… Read More

‘Fake news’ video game HEADLINER lets players destroy society with propaganda

I can’t decide if I like HEADLINER or not. It’s an addictive game — when I sat down to try it… Read More

PAX West in retrospect: The most exciting and surprising indie games

Now that I’ve had plenty of time to recover from four solid days of PAX West over Labor Day weekend… Read More

Seattle’s ‘thriving’ indie game community gets creative at the Global Game Jam

Seattle’s SoDo industrial district might not be the place you would expect to find a den of game developers. But just… Read More

Calendar Picks: Cascadia VR meetup; indie game design lab; and more

Virtual and Augmented Reality is booming in the Pacific Northwest, and on Friday, a host of fun, talented, and geeky… Read More

Seattle Indies Expo highlights big divisions in the video-game world

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… Read More

Great indie games you missed while standing in line at PAX West 2016

Even with four days to take it all in, it’s impossible to experience everything that PAX West has to offer.… Read More