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Video Games

Xbox 360 marks 18 months atop U.S. console market

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sold 257,000 units in the U.S. in June, topping Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii for the… Read More

Victory for swordsmanship: Clang gets $525k on Kickstarter

Clang, the sword-fighting video game project led by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, surpassed its $500,000 goal on Kickstarter over the… Read More

Ask Andru: Is Wii U really a next-generation console?

Today we received a question about Nintendo’s upcoming console release, Wii U, with GeekWire reader Alex wondering why the company… Read More

Video-game maker Valve: ‘An economist’s paradise’

Here’s a great weekend read. It’s the opening blog post in a new weekly series from noted economist Yanis Varoufakis, the… Read More

DigiPen students launch Touch Tactics gaming project

If you ever wanted to visit the industrial-design aesthetic of 18th-century Europe and command some artillery and battleships, then some… Read More

Man vs. machine: Valve game designer looks to defend world pinball title

Update, 6/11: The results are in, and Cayle came in second in this weekend’s world championship. Not too shabby. “It… Read More

PopCap goes native in Japan with new ‘Bejeweled Legend’

Seattle’s PopCap Games this morning released a new installment in its classic Bejeweled franchise, but this one comes with a… Read More

E3: PlayStation gets a lift from Harry Potter and HTC

Sony surprised the audience at the E3 video-game show tonight with the announcement of Wonderbook, physical books that use augmented… Read More

Book Excerpt: Why a car crash couldn’t stop Zynga from revolutionizing gaming

[Editor’s Note: Seattle-area journalist Carol Tice is the co-author, with serial entrepreneur David Lester, of the new book How They Started:… Read More

Solitaire, anyone? Classic PC games fare well vs. social apps, but user base is aging

Grandma is still playing Solitaire on the computer, research confirms. A report from the Nielsen research firm says classic PC… Read More

Big Fish adds Silicon Valley investor Bill Lee to board

Silicon Valley investor Bill Lee, a backer of companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Hootsuite and Zaarly, has joined the board… Read More

Microsoft unveils new ‘Halo Infinity Multiplayer’ plan

Halo is the franchise that introduced many people to the power of multiplayer gaming, and Microsoft will attempt to make… Read More

Republique tops $500,000 Kickstarter funding goal

A few weeks ago, we told you about Ryan Payton’s effort to get his new game, Republique, bankrolled on Kickstarter. Well,… Read More

PS3 sucks less than Xbox and Wii in tough Q1 for consoles

Sony reported its latest financial results overnight, and the numbers put the PlayStation 3 back atop the worldwide console market… Read More

Microsoft gears up for live-action ‘Halo’ web series

It’s not a movie, yet, but Microsoft is planning to launch a new web series based on its blockbuster Halo… Read More

Shadowrun Returns breaks through $1.5M on Kickstarter

Shadowrun Returns, the revival of Seattle-area game designer Jordan Weisman’s classic franchise, broke through the $1.5 million mark overnight in… Read More

The new shape of Microsoft’s entertainment unit: More diverse, less profitable

Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division has long been synonymous with the Xbox 360 and video games, which have traditionally represented… Read More

Hail to the Master Chief? Halo 4 launching on election day

Microsoft announced plans this week to launch Halo 4 on Nov. 6, kicking off a new era for the blockbuster… Read More

Conan O’Brien visits Microsoft, tries out for Halo 4 role

Microsoft yesterday announced a Nov. 6 release date for “Halo 4,” the next installment in the blockbuster video-game series for… Read More

Sony’s Zipper closure ends an era for Redmond game studio

Sony has decided to close Zipper Interactive, the Redmond-based game development studio founded in 1995 and acquired by the video… Read More

Bungie closes its Halo database with an epic infographic

Just how big are the Halo video games? Well, we’ve spent a combined 235,182 years playing them online — enough time… Read More

Seattle schools to offer digital animation, game courses

Budding digital animators and game programmers will soon have another option for learning those skills — through Seattle Public Schools’… Read More

Angry Birds Space: Mysterious launch event set for Seattle’s Space Needle on Thursday

Maybe they’re going to be slingshotting some birds from the observation deck? Tomorrow is the official launch of the highly… Read More

Meet the geeks who make video games in this documentary film

The critically-acclaimed documentary film Indie Game: The Movie — honored at both the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW — will be… Read More

Dorky’s Arcade: ‘THIS IS NOT CHUCKY CHEESE!!!’

What is the proper role of the arcade in modern society? Should it be a place for boozing adults, or… Read More

Now working for Xbox: Former PlayStation exec Phil Harrison

Here’s a hire that no one would have predicted five years ago. Phil Harrison, the former head of worldwide studios… Read More

Dancing with the Star Wars: Sorry, but this is just wrong

Are you ready to dance your heart out for Jabba the Hutt? It’s not unusual for derivatives of “Star Wars”… Read More

PS2 still tops PS3 in U.S. homes, and other surprising stats from the game world

Fifty-six percent of U.S. households own at least one current-generation video-game console, up from 50 percent a year ago. Thirty-nine… Read More

Report: Valve preparing to jump into console business

The Seattle region is already a nexus for the video-game console industry, as the home of both Microsoft’s Xbox division… Read More

Video-game vets offer peek at ‘Techpocalypse,’ based on real-world map data

Indie video-game startup Anomaly Labs is getting close to finishing its first game, “Techpocalypse” — an HTML5-based cooperative game that… Read More

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