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Social gaming powerhouse Zynga raises $1B in largest Internet IPO since Google

The highly-anticipated initial public offering for Zynga is moving forward, with Bloomberg News reporting that the maker of FarmVille, Mafia… Read More

Nintendo: Super Mario creator Miyamoto is not retiring

Was something lost in translation? Wired yesterday reported that legendary Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto — the creator of Super Mario… Read More

Zipline releases WolfToss on iOS, Android and Chrome

The significance of WolfToss isn’t necessarily the game itself — though Zipline Games co-founder Todd Hooper admits that he spent… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Neil Roseman helps bring Zynga to Seattle

One of the biggest stories in Seattle tech in 2011 was the arrival of the Silicon Valley tech titans. It… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Mariachi and margaritas mark wild year for Double Down’s Walcott, Enell

Executives at Double Down Interactive hired a mariachi band to entertain staffers at a company meeting in September — a special… Read More

New game degree: DigiPen creates MFA in Digital Arts

DigiPen Institute of Technology, the Redmond-based school specializing in interactive entertainment and video-game technology, has created a new Master of… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Z2Live CEO David Bluhm builds a mobile games powerhouse

Z2Live CEO David Bluhm — a veteran Seattle entrepreneur and gaming executive — likes to say that his company batted… Read More

Microsoft: Xbox 360 registers biggest week in its history

Microsoft says its Xbox 360 sold more than 960,000 units in the U.S. during the past week, setting a new… Read More

Apple pulls subscription service from Big Fish Games, removes Play Instantly from the app store

Earlier this week, Big Fish Games announced a new subscription gaming app that allowed iPhone users to pay a monthly… Read More

Big Fish pioneers new subscription game service for the iPad

For years, here’s how things worked in Apple’s app store. You discovered a mobile app you liked, and then you… Read More

Kyle Kesterson enters Startup Battle with tapeworm game, and help from Sir Mix-A-Lot

At Startup Weekend in Seattle earlier this month, Seattle artist and designer Kyle Kesterson and crew wowed the crowd with… Read More

Nintendo’s Fils-Amie loves Zelda, and presents a very special gift to Jimmy Fallon

Reggie Fils-Aime certainly has no shortage of choices when it comes to picking a favorite game. But, as it turns… Read More

U4iA looks to target hardcore social gamers with new studio

Two former Activision employees have started a new studio in Bellevue called U4iA to develop what it dubs “hardcore, browser-based… Read More

Have fun blowing stuff up: Z2Live offers sneak peek of new iOS game Battle Nations

Seattle upstart Z2Live, the fast-growing mobile gaming company, is getting ready to unleash its latest iPhone game. And you better… Read More

Startup secrets from PopCap’s Dave Roberts, and why it really matters to be lucky

What made PopCap Games such a blockbuster success? Well, a lot of things went into the Seattle company’s growth over… Read More

Valve says intruders accessed Steam customer database

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell just sent a message to users of the company’s Steam video-game platform disclosing that online intruders… Read More

Ignition scares up another deal in San Fran, backs 19-year-old’s MinoMonsters

For the third time this week, Ignition Partners has pumped cash into a San Francisco Bay Area startup. This time,… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: PopCap’s founders and their big EA deal

More than a decade ago, in the middle of the dot-com bust, John Vechey, Jason Kapalka and Brian Fiete founded… Read More

Why did Big Fish Games just issue a special dividend to employees?

It is a bit unusual for a privately-held technology company to issue dividends to employees and shareholders. But that’s exactly… Read More

Look out, Mario: Nintendo projects first-ever annual loss

Here’s a reminder of just how fickle the video-game business can be. Nintendo this morning released a revised financial forecast… Read More

Valve’s Newell predicts Apple will shake up game consoles

Over the weekend we posted Valve co-founder Gabe Newell’s recent comments about the pricing experiments that the company conducts using its Steam… Read More

How Valve experiments with the economics of video games

Valve Corp., the Bellevue-based video game company behind hit franchises like Half-Life and Portal, is a giant in the digital… Read More

5th Cell’s innovative Scribblenauts arrives on iPhone, iPad

Scribblenauts, a game from Bellevue-based developer 5th Cell, blew the minds of video-game nerds around the world when it was… Read More

Valve has high hopes for its ‘non-sucky educational game’

Valve, the Bellevue company behind the Steam video-game platform and hit games such as Portal and Half-Life, is developing a… Read More

PopCap celebrates wedding anniversary of Maryland couple with oversized ‘diamond’

This is a story of love … and video games. Sometimes men propose over dinner or drinks or on the… Read More

How a father-and-son Lego project sparked an iPad game

Seattle entrepreneur Hillel Cooperman loves Legos. So, each year, the founder of Jackson Fish Market gets excited for BrickCon, a… Read More

Seattle group wins $1.2 million for new startup gaming accelerator

Seattle’s gaming industry is often overlooked, but it is an economic force in the region with more than 150 companies… Read More

DoubleDown’s casino games now attract more than one million players a day

DoubleDown Interactive now says that more than one million people are playing its social-based casino games on Facebook every day.… Read More

As Electronic Arts targets Zynga, PopCap preps for launch of casino-style games on Facebook

Is PopCap Games getting ready to launch a series of casino-style games on Facebook? Some new domain purchases, as well… Read More

‘Portal’ in the classroom? Valve joins White House in education technology initiative

“Digital Promise” is a new education technology initiative rolled out by the U.S. Department of Education yesterday, with Congressional support,… Read More

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