Mobile game spending crushing Wii U, Vita titles With more than half of us now sporting smartphones, more and more people can purchase and play mobile games. That… Read More
Nap on the bus without missing your stop, and more innovations from Microsoft’s summer interns Cornell University student Peter Zieske likes to doze off on bus rides, and he has created an app to help others… Read More
Sony takes jab at Microsoft, touts consistency in maintaining ‘fair’ policies While Microsoft did a little flip-flopping with some of the Xbox One policies, Sony has remained steady with its rules for… Read More
PlayStation 4 to hit shelves November 15 for $399 Sony just announced at GamesCom in Germany that the PlayStation 4 will go on sale November 15 in North America… Read More
Amazon deal: Swap your Xbox 360 game to Xbox One for $10 Amazon is offering up a deal for those who want to upgrade their Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One.… Read More
How the next ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ will leverage Microsoft’s Xbox One PopCap is already hitting it out of the park with the just-released Plants vs. Zombies 2 and the Seattle-based company… Read More
PopCap: Plants vs. Zombies 2 hits 16M downloads, biggest mobile launch in EA history Plants vs. Zombies 2 has been downloaded more than 16 million times since its release last Thursday, making it the… Read More
Windows Phone Diary: Grappling with Microsoft’s ‘other storage’ problem I was feeling good Saturday morning, with a full weekend ahead and the news that Microsoft had released “Halo: Spartan… Read More
Microsoft brags that Xbox One has the ‘best games,’ but so do the other consoles Microsoft is getting the week started with a new Xbox One promo trailer out today and the video’s title is… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Google Chromecast, Xfinity X1 and what’s next for your TV There are seemingly endless ways to get video onto your television set these days, and the GeekWire team has been… Read More
Review: PopCap strikes right chord with fun and charming Plants vs. Zombies 2 Seattle’s PopCap Games has long stood for excellence in casual gaming, and this week’s release of Plants vs. Zombies 2:… Read More
Q&A: PopCap CEO Dave Roberts on the ongoing allure of zombies and why free-to-play games aren’t really evil Wow, that didn’t take long. Within an hour of hitting Apple’s app store this morning, the new Plants vs. Zombies… Read More
Photos: PopCap’s Zombies take over the Space Needle The zombies are here! The zombies are here! Seattle’s iconic Space Needle has been taken over by those marauding zombies from… Read More
The zombies are coming…again: Plants vs. Zombies 2 lurches onto iOS today If you’ve been itching for a new plant-based home defense game, Seattle’s PopCap Games has you covered. PopCap, which was… Read More
Zombies attacking the Space Needle? Game company to host PR stunt on iconic landmark The Space Needle has already been the backdrop of an attack by Angry Birds. Now, the Zombies are coming! To… Read More
Another reversal: Microsoft says Kinect won’t be necessary for operation of Xbox One Well, it’s time for yet another Xbox One about-face. Microsoft had been saying that the Kinect sensor that comes bundled… Read More
Microsoft: You’ll be able to share an Xbox Live Gold subscription on Xbox One Following yesterday’s revelations that some of the much-touted new features of the Xbox One will only be accessible to paid… Read More
Amazon rumored to be working on a game console If a new rumor is true, Amazon may be getting into the console business by the end of this year.… Read More
TinkerHouse Games launches Kickstarter for the first ‘action puzzle crawl’ In the summer of 2011, Seattle-based game developers Mark Jessup and Lane Daughtry left their respective jobs and decided to… Read More
Xbox One: Skype, Game DVR and OneGuide will require paid Xbox Live subscription Watch out, Microsoft: People are getting upset about the Xbox One again. Some of the new console’s most heavily touted… Read More
Zynga announces closure of OMGPOP, games When Zynga closed its New York office, home to OMGPOP, earlier this summer, there was some question as to what… Read More
Xbox 360 vs. Wii vs. PS3: Who won the console wars? Sony’s earnings report yesterday provided some of the final pieces of data to answer a question that goes back to… Read More
DoubleDown exec: Federally regulated real-money online gambling coming in 1 to 3 years SAN FRANCISCO–At the casino track of this week’s Casual Connect conference, real-money gambling is one of the big questions hanging… Read More
Court rejects EA’s appeal over athlete likeness in college football game A circuit court of appeals today rejected EA’s claim that it was protected by the First Amendment in a lawsuit… Read More
RealNetworks buys social casino game Slingo for $15.6M as ‘Zynga Slingo’ shuts down RealNetworks’ GameHouse division continued making a splash in the social gaming arena today, announcing the acquisition of social casino company Slingo Inc. for… Read More
Here’s how you can win $100K by playing a free social casino game Real-money gambling hasn’t quite made it to the United States yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t win a nice… Read More
Bang with Friends sex app founder responds to Zynga suit over ‘with friends’ trademark Zynga is all about making games that include the phrase “With Friends,” and now it appears that the company wants… Read More
Nintendo posts profit, but still sold more original Wii consoles than Wii U last quarter Nintendo just posted earnings from the first quarter of its financial year today and it’s still not looking good for… Read More
Future of gaming: You’ll probably want a robot with that head-mounted display SAN FRANCISCO – If trends continue, your next gaming accessory could be a head-mounted display, like the Oculus Rift. If… Read More
Former EA CEO John Riccitiello: Mobile games need to build brands SAN FRANCISCO — The mobile and social arena has been categorized by some massive short-term successes, but few big brands.… Read More
