A panel of local artists and cartoonists came together at this year’s Emerald City Comic Con to discuss the history of Seattle’s underground comics scene, from its origins in the… Read More
Seattle police arrested a man who allegedly stole “about $40,000 worth” of collectible cards for Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering. According to the SPD Blotter, the unidentified man… Read More
For Seattle’s video game community — and any Sonic the Hedgehog fans — 2024 will open with a bang, as the Sonic Symphony is coming to town. On Jan. 4-5, a full… Read More
The esports world descended on Seattle this past weekend for this year’s International, the final tournament on the professional circuit for Valve Software’s popular multiplayer online battle arena Dota 2.… Read More
Charmed, a Seattle startup that specializes in creating AI-powered video game development tools, raised $400,000 from Madrona Venture Labs. The funding news comes alongside the recent debut of Charmed’s Texture… Read More
In Seattle, city government and the Downtown Seattle Association continue to build on the “Amazon Great Return” through a variety of strategies to reactivate downtown. While attempts to maintain safety and… Read More
Chinese technology company NetEase announced this week that it plans to open a new game development studio in Seattle called Anchor Point Studios. Anchor Point is a remote company that’s… Read More
A new survey of Seattle voters shows that public opinion about the city is slightly improving. The bad news for city leaders is that most people don’t have faith in… Read More
Nintendo of America announced on Tuesday that it will bring its “Nintendo Live” stage show to Seattle in September. Billed as an “all-ages celebration of Nintendo fun,” the show will… Read More
Friends and family of the late Seattle artist Jon Strongbow gathered for a memorial panel earlier this month at Emerald City Comic Con to tell stories about one of the… Read More
Mobile gaming company Lightfox Games raised $6 million in fresh capital to help fuel development of a new game. CEO Ryan Hanft-Murphy confirmed the new funding but declined to provide… Read More
Pink Gorilla had a lot of issues with burglaries and break-ins last year, but the oldest retro/import games store in the Pacific Northwest is actually expanding its footprint in the… Read More
Almost two years after officially attaining “unicorn” status, Seattle startup Rec Room continues to expand the audience for its eponymous flagship app Rec Room, with new physical gift cards, a… Read More
Tech companies have transformed Seattle over the past decade, creating thousands of high-paying jobs and bolstering the region’s economy. But many local leaders and residents have blamed the companies at… Read More
Seattle voters are nearly evenly split on the question of whether to change how the city votes in primary elections, but the latest count is tilting toward approval of a… Read More
Washington state hosts one of the largest game development communities in the U.S., second only to California. Portland and Vancouver both have their own massive gaming scenes, which typically means… Read More
Netflix on Monday announced the acquisition of Seattle-based game development studio Spry Fox, which will become the streaming giant’s sixth internal video game studio. Financial terms were not disclosed. The… Read More
The season three finale of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch featured four CEOs who rose to the top of our startup competition and landed on the GeekWire Summit stage last week. Now… Read More
Internet access became essential after COVID-19 hit. With video-chat apps largely replacing face-to-face interactions, and in-person services and businesses retreating behind the safety of screens, everyday life became unfathomably difficult… Read More
It was often hard to tell from the inside that 2022’s Emerald City Comic Con was supposed to be a comic book convention. With ECCC, the con organizers at ReedPop… Read More
Legendary auction house Christie’s got a front-row seat to the NFT craze. In March 2021, the 256-year-old art merchant facilitated the sale of a collage of the first 5,000 pieces… Read More
The organizers of the Emerald City Comic Con announced Thursday that they will reimplement a face covering requirement for this year’s show in Seattle. This is a significant reversal of… Read More
Before its closure in late 2021, the GameWorks downtown arcade bar on 7th Ave. was a hallmark of Seattle’s geeky gaming community. It’s now under new management, by old managers,… Read More
Seattle-based Getty Images will once again be a public company. The 27-year-old digital media provider announced Friday that it completed a merger with CC Neuberger Principal Holdings, a publicly traded… Read More
Remote work is equalizing tech startup pay across the country, with Silicon Valley and San Francisco as the benchmark, and Seattle as Exhibit A. That’s one insight from a recent… Read More
Offices in Seattle will remain partly empty until 2024. At least, that’s what commercial real estate company Broderick Group predicts in a market report for the second quarter of 2022,… Read More
ReedPop, the company behind the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, announced Wednesday that it plans to substantially relax its COVID safety protocols for the 2022 show in August, which… Read More
Amazon will host more than 15,000 interns from across the world this year, setting the stage for its largest class ever. The Seattle tech giant says that most of its… Read More
In February, Markham McIntyre agreed to leave his job as the vice president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to lead the Seattle’s Office of Economic Development (OED) as its… Read More
The pandemic may have disrupted hiring patterns in tech, and pushed some workers out of coastal metro areas. But Google still is growing fast in Washington state, according to a… Read More