Xbox 360 still tromping all over the U.S. console market June was a down month for the U.S. video-game industry overall, but not for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 –which turned in… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 rules the U.S. console market, again In a down month for video games, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continued to buck the trend in May, according to new… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s strategy, Apple’s iCloud, and Nintendo’s crazy new controller This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a big week in tech news — including Jeff Bezos at the… Read More
Sony’s new PS Vita handheld: $249 WiFi, $299 3G, on AT&T Sony this evening unveiled the official name for the successor to its PlayStation Portable. Dubbed the PlayStation Vita, the new… Read More
Apple, Xbox set to battle for attention of tech world It’s hard to remember a week with so many big tech companies staging so many potentially big announcements. It kicks… Read More
Platform or not, Microsoft’s Xbox business is booming Next week is the big E3 video-game convention, and Microsoft’s Xbox team this morning kicked off the competitive jockeying by… Read More
Nerd Notes: Sony Vaio goes gold, it’s hip to be geek and an alien scares a kid Seattle Retro Gaming Expo is going on this weekend at Hotel Deca in the UD. And don’t even think about… Read More
Sony to PlayStation users: We’re back, we’re sorry, now please change your password Well, at least they got it back online before E3. After more than three weeks of downtime following an online… Read More
Redbox getting into video games, like for reals this time Coming soon to the front stoop of your local 7-Eleven: Master Chief and Mario. Redbox, the movie-rental subsidiary of Bellevue-based… Read More
Nerd Notes: Tattooed teeth, the battleshoe and a Borderlands proposal Eric Schmidt interviews Tina Fey at Google HQ. Highlights include Tina telling Eric he would be the kind of guest… Read More
PlayStation Network outage actually massive theft of personal info Sony this afternoon disclosed that an “unauthorized person” hacked into its PlayStation Network online gaming system and obtained personal information… Read More
Wii sequel in 2012: Can Nintendo top PS3, Xbox 360? In the process of announcing its latest financial results this morning, Nintendo confirmed that it plans to release the successor… Read More
Xbox 360 on top of U.S. console market, again Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console sold 430,000 units in the U.S. in March, up 28 percent from the same month a… Read More
Microsoft unveils new Xbox hardware … for game developers Microsoft today announced a new piece of Xbox hardware that could make Xbox 360 games better, in the long… Read More
Xbox 3D? Job listings tip Microsoft’s hand Nice catch by PC World this morning, digging up a series of job posts on LinkedIn that show Microsoft staffing… Read More