Articles about Video Games – Page 11 of 19

Consumers spent $14.8B on video game content in 2012, down 9 percent from last year

Just like the newspaper, book and movie industries, the latest numbers show the video game sector quickly moving to digital… Read More

PopCap debuts first social hidden object game on Facebook with Hidden Agenda

Seattle-based PopCap Games is back with another game featuring anthropomorphic animals, and this time it’s all about solving mysteries. Hidden… Read More

Name that Tech Tune: Win tickets to the GeekWire Bash

Updated below with answer and winner … Longtime listeners to the GeekWire radio show and podcast may have noticed that… Read More

Gas Powered CEO Chris Taylor: “We’ve regrouped and are focused on winning”

We’ve been writing about how Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor had to let go of his entire staff due to the… Read More

17-BIT’s new ‘Skulls of the Shogun’ bridges Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox 360

More than three years in the making, the new Skulls of the Shogun video game from Seattle-based indie game developer… Read More

Struggling Nintendo sells 3 million Wii U consoles, lowers forecasts again

Nintendo’s quarterly numbers are out and the company managed to sell 3.06 million Wii U consoles worldwide during the holiday… Read More

Gas Powered CEO Chris Taylor pessimistic about Kickstarter outcome

Last week, we reported on the odd story of how Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor had to let go… Read More

Report: Chinese government could lift 12-year-old ban on video game hardware

Execs at Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and maybe even Valve are licking their chops this morning at the latest news from… Read More

Xbox 360 ‘Kinect Effect’ fades as console market declines

A little more than a year ago, in the fall of 2011, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 business was basking in the… Read More

Gas Powered CEO lays off employees, then nearly breaks down when asking for more money on Kickstarter

Chris Taylor, CEO of Redmond-based Gas Powered Games, starts this video on Kickstarter off like this: “This is the wackiest… Read More

Amazon’s e-commerce engine expanding to Mac, Windows and web games

Amazon is pushing further into the world of video games with a new in-app purchasing service for games on Windows… Read More

Xbox 360 wins holiday season in U.S., marks two straight years atop market

The Xbox 360 is champ once again. Microsoft’s console was the best-selling console in the United States last month, marking… Read More

Q&A: Double Down CEO Greg Enell on growth, games, money and Facebook

Double Down Interactive, the Seattle-based maker of casino-style social games, started the year by announcing its acquisition by gambling technology… Read More

Wii U posts big first week, but Xbox 360 is still champ for now

Xbox 360 was the top-selling game console in the U.S. for November, kicking off the critical holiday shopping season with… Read More

Video games analyst: “Consumers are starved for new titles”

Game developers, take notice. Right now might be a perfect time to unveil that new game you’ve been working on… Read More

Steam’s Big Picture out of beta and into your living room

After nearly three months in beta mode, Steam is making its free “Big Picture” mode available to public, giving PC gamers a new… Read More

Hulu home to movies, TV shows and now video games

Hulu is known for its TV shows, movies and other related video. Now, they’re venturing into the video game space.… Read More

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Gabe: Valve founder inducted to Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

The Hall of Fame. Whether it’s baseball, cars or rock-n-roll, the Hall is synonymous as a place for the people who… Read More

Valve’s Gabe Newell: Three beta controllers, new game engine in the works

Here’s one way to get Gabe Newell talking about Valve’s latest creations: Go wish him happy birthday. That’s what a… Read More

Amazon’s first mobile game: ‘Air Patriots’ for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire

Amazon’s fledgling game development studio released its first mobile game this morning, Air Patriots, a tower-defense game with a military… Read More

Game experts debate: Is Microsoft Kinect a passing fad or here to stay?

The gaming panel today at the WTIA’s TechNW conference featured some well-known names from the industry talking about a wide… Read More

1st Apple-approved iOS game controller makes its debut

Digital and social game publisher Gameloft and Duo Games, a unit of Seattle-based Discovery Bay Games, unveiled the first Apple-approved handheld… Read More

Microsoft’s Halo 4 is done, set for November release

Halo fans rejoice: Ladies and gents: we are Yoinking thrilled to announce that #Halo4 has gone gold. #WakeUpJohn — Halo… Read More

Valve for sale? Asian firms reportedly in talks to purchase video game studio

Even though Valve CEO Gabe Newell said it’s more likely that his company will “disintegrate,” rather than be bought out,… Read More

Jordan Weisman: ‘Warning: Startups may be dangerous to your health (and ego)’

Jordan Weisman is a veteran game designer who made headlines this year for an epic Kickstarter campaign, raising $1.8 million… Read More

‘Gamemaster Howard’ is back with clever (and fun) educational game

Howard Phillips, who rose from the Nintendo of America warehouse to the role of “Gamemaster” and editor of Nintendo Power magazine,… Read More

Sesame Street goes interactive on Kinect, our kids give it a try

This is better than regular television. But it’s very hard to beat the good old-fashioned real world. That was the… Read More

Is that a PC inside your Atari 2600? Well, yes, it is

Building on the recent Internet Explorer/Atari link up, in which they built eight classic Atari games using HTML5, Hard Drives Northwest has… Read More

Nintendo Wii U will be $300 and $350, debuts Nov. 18

Nintendo will sell its new Wii U game in two versions, starting at $300, beginning on Nov. 18 in the… Read More

Steam ‘Big Picture’ game mode arrives today in beta

Look out, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo: There’s a new player in the living room. Valve, the video-game company behind the… Read More