These days, it’s not surprising to see traditional board games like Monopoly and Scrabble move from the physical to the video game world. Going the other way around, however, is… Read More
Bellevue-based Valve has acquired Star Filled Studios, a two-man development team founded by ex-PopCap and Blizzard employees Jeff Gates and Tod Semple. ValveTime picked up on this via Semple’s LinkedIn… Read More
For those who just can’t get enough Plants vs. Zombies, today PopCap debuted new trading cards that will help fans become expert zombologists. The full retail box, priced at $79.20,… Read More
PopCap Games is cutting back even further, announcing today that it closed its offices in Dublin, Ireland. Ninety-six employees are losing their jobs as a result of the closure, which… Read More
Just over a year after Electronic Arts agreed to pay up to $1.3 billion for PopCap Games, the maker of Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled is cutting staff and considering… Read More
Much is happening for PopCap this week, with the launch of new game Vacation Quest and an online Plants v. Zombies store. All in the midst of buyout rumors of… Read More
We’ve got a lot to talk about on this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, starting with our thoughts on the trends at this week’s Casual Connect video game conference in… Read More
The first question I ask Van Riker, marketing manager for PopCap’s hit game Plants vs. Zombies, is a simple one: What’s the point of creating a 3-D zombie that you can… Read More
International Game Technologies — which purchased Seattle social game maker Double Down Interactive for up to $500 million in January — is bringing its popular Da Vinci Diamonds slot machine to Facebook.… Read More
Zynga has launched its new social game, Ruby Blast, a high-speed race of digging for hidden treasure in an ancient mine that lets users pit their skills against friends online.… Read More
The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “I’ve been writing science and historical fiction for three decades. Well, screw that. I want to do a video… Read More
File this under awesome. A 68-year-old grandmother from New Jersey is going to play Solitaire Blitz for 30 hours to set a new Guinness World Record while also raising money… Read More
PopCap Games is pulling its popular Bejeweled Blitz puzzle game from Google+, saying that it wants to focus efforts on other areas. The company issued this statement on the decision:… Read More
Seattle’s PopCap Games this morning released a new installment in its classic Bejeweled franchise, but this one comes with a different twist — and for now, at least, we won’t… Read More
Entrepreneurs need all sorts of personality traits in order to be effective leaders, from honesty and passion to confidence and fearlessness. But at the GeekWire Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards Thursday… Read More
From IPOs to M&A deals to big venture capital financing rounds, today’s featured category in the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards is Deal of the Year. There certainly were some whoppers… Read More
We’ve been spending some quality time with a new iPad here today at GeekWire, focusing on the new and updated apps for the tablet’s high-definition retina display. It’s impressive, particularly when… Read More
This could get pretty interesting. PopCap Games this week launched a new series of casino-style games on Facebook in which players compete in slot-based games, playing by themselves or with… Read More
Seattle’s gaming industry doesn’t always get the respect it deserves. But the industry is a very big business, and it is growing. A preliminary report from The Washington Interactive Network found… Read More
Buoyed by the strength of PopCap Games and new titles such as Star Wars: The Old Republic, Electronic Arts today posted the highest operating cash flow in 31 quarters and… Read More
A quick rundown of stories and offbeat tidbits catching our attention this morning … Pet and animal lovers can now get all of their comedy offerings in one spot as Cheezburger… Read More
Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell, DoubleDown Interactive CEO Greg Enell, ZipLine Games co-founder Todd Hooper and many others from Seattle’s burgeoning gaming business appear in a new special report from… Read More
We had a great time talking with John Vechey, one of the co-founders of PopCap Games, on this weekend’s GeekWire radio show and podcast — exploring topics including the origins of the… Read More
On this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about the controversy over Amazon’s new Price Check app, the debate over Twitter’s new look, and the delay in Microsoft’s… Read More
Updated below with answer and winner. This week’s Name That Tech Tune challenge is a fun one, and we have a hunch it’s going to be a little tougher than… Read More
The New York Times published an unflattering story this past weekend about the hard-charging culture of game maker Zynga, noting how the maker of FarmVille and Mafia Wars operates like… Read More
What made PopCap Games such a blockbuster success? Well, a lot of things went into the Seattle company’s growth over the past 11 years. And, yes, that includes a little… Read More
More than a decade ago, in the middle of the dot-com bust, John Vechey, Jason Kapalka and Brian Fiete founded PopCap Games and debuted their first puzzle game, which came… Read More
I am always interested in how national publications perceive Seattle’s technology community. After all, as long time journalists covering the daily gyrations of the tech industry here, you sometimes need… Read More
Our latest Geek of the Week, Giordano Contestabile, is working at one of the most interesting intersections of technology right now, video games and mobile phones, as the senior director… Read More