Early on the morning of Jan. 14, two thieves hit four separate retail outlets in Kent, Wash., by backing a stolen Audi SUV through their front doors. This included GameBound,… 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
Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast has canceled at least five unnamed video game projects, according to a report from Bloomberg. The cancellations are said to affect fewer than 15… Read More
This year started slow in the video game industry, due to a combination of pandemic slowdowns and highly-anticipated titles such as Elden Ring, but it ended with a tidal wave… Read More
If you use video games to relax or relieve stress, a new collaboration between Microsoft Xbox and Calm, a leading sleep and meditation app, is looking to extend those benefits.… Read More
Microsoft plans to increase the base price for some of its first-party, internally-produced video games in 2023. Xbox’s first three big releases of the year —Forza Motorsport, Redfall, and Starfield—will… 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
Wizards of the Coast has opened a new video game development studio in Montreal, which is already working on a new Dungeons & Dragons title. The new company, Invoke Studios,… Read More
Funko, the Everett, Wash.-based pop-culture collectibles company, is breaking into video game production. In collaboration with new studio 10:10 Games, headquartered in Warrington, UK, Funko will produce an as-yet-untitled “AAA… Read More
Amazon Games will publish an upcoming, unnamed project from Disruptive Games, an indie game developer based in Berkeley, Calif., the company announced Thursday. The move represents another expansion of Amazon’s… Read More
The owner of a Canadian YouTube channel focused on video game soundtracks has reported that he received more than 500 copyright strikes from Nintendo of America, which has forced him… Read More
Here’s a chance to really test your flying skills in “Microsoft Flight Simulator.” The company released a long-awaited “Top Gun: Maverick” expansion on Thursday that will have users conducting fighter… Read More
GameWorks Seattle is getting ready to reboot this summer. The downtown arcade bar, which was a tentpole of the region’s geek community until its COVID-19-induced closure in December 2021, is… Read More
Microsoft wants more indie game developers to use its cloud services with the debut of a new suite of cloud-based tools called ID@Azure. The program, announced as part of the… Read More
Frank Chang loves to drive fast. When he races, he can feel the vibration of the road beneath him, the g-forces and steering tension in tight turns, and the exertion… Read More
Microsoft is aiming to vault itself into the upper echelon of video games with its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant behind such franchises as Warcraft,… Read More
One of the biggest names in American indie comics has been acquired by a Swedish video game holding company. The Embracer Group announced Tuesday that it has entered into an… Read More
This year’s Game Awards aired on Thursday night via livestreaming platforms, and as usual, it was primarily devoted to a three-hour-long showcase of new and upcoming video games. Several big… Read More
Yes, there was a game called Omikron: The Nomad Soul, starring a virtual David Bowie, released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows. No, the game was not made by Microsoft. Suggesting… Read More
Just in time for the 2021 holidays, Microsoft is releasing an ugly sweater that throws the style clock back to 1990. Continuing its recent tradition of celebrating its vintage software,… Read More
The launch of Valve Software’s new portable gaming PC, the Steam Deck, has been pushed back two months to February 2022. Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve announced the delay Wednesday via the… Read More
Eight years after they left Zulily to concentrate full time on their social platform for gamers, husband and wife co-founders Yaprak and David DeCarmine are growing Seattle-based Game Jolt and… Read More
Microsoft has announced the release date for its forthcoming first-person shooter Halo Infinite, as well as a lineup of special-edition Xbox hardware meant to celebrate the video game franchise’s 20th anniversary.… Read More
Hockey fans dying for a look inside Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena, the soon-to-be home of the Seattle Kraken, can turn to a video game announcement today to get their fix.… Read More
Rome wasn’t built in a day, the saying goes. But hey, Seattle was built in a month! At least a big chunk of it was — in Minecraft. An impressive… Read More
Last month, American consumers spent $5.6 billion on video game hardware, accessories, and assorted content, which marks an 18% increase over March 2020 and sets a record for March in… Read More
J Allard, the onetime Microsoft executive who was a co-founder of Xbox, left Intellivision Entertainment last year, shortly after joining that company to be global managing director. News of Allard… Read More
Energy consumption by the new Xbox gaming console could cost new owners of the Microsoft device more than $500 million on their electricity bills over the next five years, according… Read More
Gordon Li grew up obsessed with playing video games — maybe a bit too much, in his parents’ opinion, he says. But any parent would be proud if their kid… Read More