Hulu Plus on Xbox Live … just in time for PlayStation outage Microsoft plans to launch the long-awaited Hulu Plus service for its Xbox Live network tomorrow, allowing Xbox Live Gold members… Read More
Nine-year-old boy gets his wish, creates an iPhone game Most nine-year-old boys dream of meeting sports stars like Ichiro, Matt Hasselbeck or Kasey Keller. Not Owain Weinert. Weinert simply… Read More
Microsoft brings Clippy back … for Office training game Hi, it looks like you’re playing a game! Would you like some help? OK, so thankfully that’s not what happens… 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
Jeff Bezos-backed Social Gaming Network sells out to Chris DeWolfe’s new gig, MindJolt Chris DeWolfe, the University of Washington grad who went on to co-found MySpace, continues to reinvent himself as an online… Read More
Penny Arcade expands empire with new developer event Interesting news this weekend from the team behind the ever-growing Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX: Building on the… Read More
Meet Neil Roseman: The ex-Amazon exec leading the charge for Zynga in Seattle Neil Roseman probably could have used his technical talents to build a new startup company in Seattle. Instead, the former… Read More
Nintendo 3DS falls short of DS launch, but beats it in revenue Nintendo’s 3DS didn’t sell as many units in its U.S. launch last month as the original Nintendo DS did during… Read More
Geek of the Week: Erica McGillivray, GeekGirlCon We’re kicking off a new feature today, a GeekWire “Geek of the Week” honor for the Pacific Northwest technology community.… Read More
Startup launch: Jumala makes a game out of creating games Why would you want to just play a video game, when you could be the mastermind who actually helped design… Read More
PopCap to unleash ‘weirdness’ with 4th & Battery studio PopCap Games sometimes takes months or years to develop its titles, a process that has paid off in spades with… 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
Android and iPhone game development in a snap: That’s the promise of Zipline What has Zipline Games co-founder Todd Hooper been building in the basement of Founder’s Co-op over the past few months?… Read More
Nintendo: ‘We don’t want to be in the phone business’ Nintendo is a master at building portable gaming gadgets, as evidenced by the recent release of the company’s 3DS device.… Read More
Casual game maker PassionFruit sold to marketing agency PassionFruit Games, a maker of casual video games for women, has been acquired by Rally Marketing Group in a deal… Read More
Sony Online to shut doors on Bellevue game studio Sony Online Entertainment is closing down game studios in Bellevue, Denver and Tucson, Arizona, a move which will eliminate 205… Read More
Nintendo releases 3DS, and it already has one huge fan in Jimmy Fallon: ‘This is insane’ Gaming nerds spent Saturday night waiting in lines across the country in order to gobble up Nintendo’s new 3DS, which… Read More
Nintendo 3DS: Ready to pay $250 for a handheld? Nintendo has said all along that people will need to see its new Nintendo 3DS to fully appreciate the glasses-free… Read More
Gov. Gregoire: Washington businesses have donated more than $7M to earthquake relief PopCap Games raised more than $200,000 this past weekend for Japan’s earthquake relief efforts by donating proceeds from mobile app… Read More
Exclusive: Zynga picks historic Pioneer Square building for office Zynga, the fast growing maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other social games, plans to establish its new engineering center… Read More
Buy the Bejeweled app, and donate to Japan earthquake relief efforts Here’s a way to give back to the relief efforts in Japan. Seattle’s PopCap, maker of popular games such as… Read More
Xbox, Windows unite in internal Microsoft video Is this the future of Windows PCs? ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft’s “Windows Gaming eXperience”… Read More
Data Dump: Kindle vs. iPad vs. Xbox vs. everything else Except for maybe those crazies at the front of the iPad 2 line, many of us have become pretty measured… Read More
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ atop the heap in February (List) There’s a new king in the U.S. video game market, and it’s not exactly good news for the industry’s efforts… Read More
Xbox 360 scores its biggest non-holiday month ever Microsoft sold 535,000 Xbox 360s in the United States in February, the biggest month in the console’s history outside of… Read More
More Kinect coolness: Business collaboration and home automation hacks Microsoft plans to soon release a software development kit allowing hobbyists and academics to build applications for its Kinect motion… Read More
Gaming vets launch Playteau, roll out Fortune Stones Seattle has a new social gaming startup. It’s called Playteau, and today its releasing its first title, Fortune Stones, on… Read More
Kinect tops 10 million, but Guinness world record a bit shaky Microsoft this morning announced that the Kinect motion sensor for Xbox 360 has surpassed 10 million units shipped since its… Read More
How Microsoft is using Angry Birds to boost Bing Is this the ultimate product placement? Microsoft is expanding its relationship with Rovio, the developers of the hit mobile game… 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
