Microsoft: Xbox 360 on track for biggest year in Xbox history Microsoft’s Xbox 360 landed atop the U.S. console market once again in July, according to a statement just released by… Read More
Nintendo plots comeback, but when will Mario upgrade to a smartphone? Maybe never Nintendo will try to reverse the fortunes of its latest handheld game device, the 3DS, by cutting the price to $170… Read More
Fruit Ninja to give Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect some extra juice Fruit Ninja debuts this week for Microsoft’s Xbox Live — using the Kinect motion sensor to let gamers slice through… Read More
Meet the 15-year-old whose game wowed the crowd at DigiPen’s summer camp For Jeannette Yu, a 15-year old art-loving teen, stepping into a gaming programmer’s shoes for a two-week long summer camp… Read More
New Bungie film goes behind the games (Watch it with us) Bungie, the Seattle-area game studio best known for the blockbuster Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, just released a nearly hour-long… Read More
GeekWire at gdgt live Seattle: Which classic arcade game do you want to compete in? GeekWire is gearing up for gdgt live this Friday evening in Seattle — the free, all-ages gadget-fest at the Showbox… Read More
Sony takes a big swing, buys game maker Sucker Punch It probably doesn’t come with a price tag in the billions. But another Seattle area gaming studio has been sold.… Read More
This Seattle woman really, really wants to work at Valve Valve Software is one of the Seattle area’s hottest gaming companies. And Erin Michael Vondrak, a Seattle artist and photographer,… Read More
The dreaded ‘G’ word: Gamification I’ve been spending a portion of the week at the Casual Connect conference in downtown Seattle, a three-day extravaganza which… Read More
Nintendo kicks off symphony concert tour to celebrate 25 years of Zelda How do you mark 25 years of the iconic video game The Legend of Zelda? But, of course, you kick… Read More
Meet the 10-year-old who just released an iPhone game (with some help from PopCap) Remember the story of Owain Weinert? He’s the 10-year-old who dreamed of developing his own iOS game. Well, that dream… Read More
Go to college, buy a Windows PC and get a free Xbox 360? Amazon.com isn’t the only tech giant wooing college students this summer. Microsoft too is offering a special deal, giving away… Read More
Domain purchase fuels speculation of Microsoft-Sony partnership Earlier today, we told you about Microsoft’s leak of the Web site Socl.com, which caused all sorts of chatter about… Read More
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
List: How EA’s buyout of PopCap ranks Electronic Arts’ buyout of PopCap Games is a whopper by most standards. But just how big is it in relation… Read More
Report: PopCap turned down $1B buyout offer from Zynga PopCap Games must be pretty confident in its ability to post strong financial results over the next couple years. Either… Read More
PopCap to fans: EA buyout is good One of Popcap Games’ defining corporate traits is the irreverent and lighthearted personality it conveys to the outside world. Following… Read More
‘Scene It?’ goes daily with unified trivia game across web, devices The “Scene It?” game franchise is getting broader and more timely today with a new trivia quiz game that works… Read More
Meet the venture capitalist who just made a bundle on PopCap’s sale to EA PopCap Games never really operated by the book. The Seattle game maker eschewed venture capital financing throughout much its history,… Read More
EA buying PopCap Games for up to $1.3 billion (Updated) [Updated at 3 p.m.] The rumors were true: Seattle-based PopCap Games, maker of games such as Bejeweled, Plants vs. Zombies… Read More
Comments of the Week: Nintendo is the Apple of video games It was a big week for tech news, with Facebook rolling out its online video chat service with Skype and… Read More
Nintendo: We don’t need no stinkin’ social games Don’t look for Nintendo to start developing low-cost iPhone games or rolling out titles on Facebook. After speculation arose that… Read More
Podcast Rewind: How Penny Arcade is building its business — and how it isn’t Our guest this past week on the GeekWire podcast/radio show was Robert Khoo, the president of Penny Arcade — the… Read More
Facebook-dependent Zynga files for $1 billion IPO Zynga, the maker of FarmVille, CityVille and Words With Friends, filed for an initial public offering today that could add… Read More
Why the Supreme Court shot down California’s ban on violent video games The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a California law that attempted to ban the sale of violent video games… Read More
Getting games from good to great with Bungie’s Rick Lico It’s an overcast summer’s evening in Seattle’s University District, and in the warehouse-like space in the back of an arts supply… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Show: Bezos’ clock, Mix-A-Lot’s game, and the story of Penny Arcade This week on the GeekWire Show, we explain Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ plan to build a 10,000-year clock inside a… Read More
Name that Tech Tune: What is this classic arcade game? [Updated below with answer and winners] This week on the GeekWire podcast and radio show, we have a new installment… Read More
Microsoft sees a future for Kinect avatars in health care As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing, a top company executive today provided… Read More
PopCap Games: By the numbers Word that PopCap Games is in talks to be acquired — perhaps by Electronics Arts — for more than $1… Read More
