Games – Page 27 of 69

After battling Microsoft in video games for years, Valve’s Steam is on a collision course with Apple

COMMENTARY: If you play games on your PC at all, you likely have a somewhat complex relationship with the Bellevue-based… Read More

Xbox 360 lives on with a surprising system update — the first in more than two years

Xbox 360 owners, Microsoft hasn’t totally forgotten about you even as it has moved on to bigger and better consoles.… Read More

Valve vs. Apple: PC gaming giant cries foul after iOS App Store rejects Steam Link streaming app

Valve says Apple has revoked its original approval of the PC gaming giant’s new Steam Link app for the iOS… Read More

Wargaming Seattle to shut down, impacting 150 jobs in region’s latest game studio closure

Updated below with Wargaming statement. Wargaming Seattle, the Redmond-based game studio that started as Gas Powered Games and more recently… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Geek out with 400-plus games at the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show

For vintage game geeks, events can’t get much better than the Northwest Pinball and Arcade show. The annual, weekend-long gaming… Read More

The story behind Microsoft’s gargantuan new Xbox controller

Microsoft unveiled its newest Xbox controller this week, a ground-breaking device designed for a huge range of customization to help people… Read More

Nintendo teams up with VC firm for Switch startup program led by new investment partner in Seattle

Nintendo is on the hunt for innovators who can build new technology for its popular Switch console platform. The Japanese… Read More

‘It’s very David and Goliath’: Inside the growing effort to unionize video game developers

Jen MacLean, the newly appointed executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), hosted a round-table discussion at the… Read More

Capcom Vancouver ending Puzzle Fighter, focusing on Dead Rising in latest shakeup for B.C. studio

Capcom Vancouver has announced, via the community outreach site Capcom Unity, that its mobile title Puzzle Fighter is being shut… Read More

A print-on-demand, blockchain-powered collectible card game: Cryptogogue’s Volition

Volition is an upcoming collectible card game (CCG) from Cryptogogue, a Seattle startup founded in 2017 by Patrick Meehan, a… Read More

State of play: Dell-commissioned survey shows a widening, diverse audience for video games in 2018

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op8EIkYJPlg We’ve known for a hot minute that the consumer demographics in the video game industry were A) changing rapidly,… Read More

TLDR: Snap Spectacles are back, Seattle-to-Vancouver ‘nerd bird,’ Nintendo Switch

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Nintendo’s profits soar by 500% thanks to massive success of Switch console

The Nintendo Switch is already one of the most successful gaming consoles of all time, and today we got to… Read More

Ready to return to Mars? Bungie reveals ‘Warmind,’ the new expansion for ‘Destiny 2’

Kirkland, Wash.-based video game developer Bungie took to its official Twitch channel Tuesday to reveal details about the forthcoming expansion… Read More

How to improve the SNES Classic’s lineup of games with an easy software hack

As a general rule, any new media device will, within 24 hours of its release date, be hacked. Sometimes people… Read More

Seattle-based 8 Circuit Studios wants to build the Metaverse with the blockchain

Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel “Snow Crash” was set, in part, in a massive multiplayer virtual reality called the Metaverse, where people… Read More

Scenes from the Halo World Championships: Defending champs fall in battle for $500k prize

Thousands of video-game fans packed CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle this weekend to see which professional “Halo” team would… Read More

Three years later, Microsoft’s bet on Xbox One backward-compatible games is still paying off

It has been nearly three years since Microsoft announced plans to make older Xbox games playable on Xbox One, and… Read More

Game Review: Fight hot dogs and wink at the camera in Massive Monster’s ‘Adventure Pals’

I wasn’t expecting The Adventure Pals to be this easy. It’s an independently-made game that draws a lot of its… Read More

‘Myst’ turns 25: Cyan Worlds celebrates seminal game with an anniversary Kickstarter

Cyan Worlds, the game developer based outside of Spokane, Wash., launched a Kickstarter this week to mark the 25th anniversary… Read More

Four gaming companies hit with online gambling lawsuits over ‘free-to-play’ casino games

A spate of lawsuits filed over the last few days target online gaming companies, alleging their digital casino offerings constitute… Read More

Indie game developer tinyBuild bulks up with $3.75M backing from new Makers Fund

tinyBuild, the Bothell, Wash.-based independent developer and publisher behind such truly weird games as “No Time to Explain,” “Party Hard,” and… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Grapple with climate change via video games; Learn about blockchain in retail; and more

How can video games change the world for the better? That’s the question posed by Games For Our Future: Surviving… Read More

Follow-up: Valve updates the world on the fate of Steam Machine game consoles

It turns out that the Steam Machines aren’t dead. Yet. Over the weekend, several websites, the first of which appears… Read More

Death of the Steam Machine? Valve removes links to third-party consoles from Steam hardware tab

Valve has quietly removed links and references to Steam Machine game consoles from the hardware section and drop-down menu on… Read More

TLDR: Apple’s new iPad, big Pokémon Go update, and Zuckerberg will face Congress

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube to catch… Read More

‘I’m still a humble toymaker’: A chat with veteran indie RPG developer Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software

Jeff Vogel, indie game development’s self-declared “Crazy Old Uncle In the Attic,” has been a one-man production studio for computer… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Rainway lets people play PC games on any device

If you just can’t stop playing your favorite PC game but need to be mobile, Rainway thinks it has an… Read More

‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ wins some, but inexplicably not all, Game Developers Choice Awards

Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild continued its industry-wide victory lap Wednesday night when it won the… Read More

Wizards of the Coast wants you to stream ‘Magic: The Gathering Arena’ … responsibly

Starting today, all participants in the Magic: The Gathering Arena closed beta will be able to create videos and stream content from… Read More