EA buying PopCap Games for up to $1.3 billion (Updated) [Updated at 3 p.m.] The rumors were true: Seattle-based PopCap Games, maker of games such as Bejeweled, Plants vs. Zombies… Read More
Comments of the Week: Nintendo is the Apple of video games It was a big week for tech news, with Facebook rolling out its online video chat service with Skype and… Read More
Nintendo: We don’t need no stinkin’ social games Don’t look for Nintendo to start developing low-cost iPhone games or rolling out titles on Facebook. After speculation arose that… Read More
Podcast Rewind: How Penny Arcade is building its business — and how it isn’t Our guest this past week on the GeekWire podcast/radio show was Robert Khoo, the president of Penny Arcade — the… Read More
Facebook-dependent Zynga files for $1 billion IPO Zynga, the maker of FarmVille, CityVille and Words With Friends, filed for an initial public offering today that could add… Read More
Why the Supreme Court shot down California’s ban on violent video games The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a California law that attempted to ban the sale of violent video games… Read More
Getting games from good to great with Bungie’s Rick Lico It’s an overcast summer’s evening in Seattle’s University District, and in the warehouse-like space in the back of an arts supply… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Show: Bezos’ clock, Mix-A-Lot’s game, and the story of Penny Arcade This week on the GeekWire Show, we explain Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ plan to build a 10,000-year clock inside a… Read More
Name that Tech Tune: What is this classic arcade game? [Updated below with answer and winners] This week on the GeekWire podcast and radio show, we have a new installment… Read More
Microsoft sees a future for Kinect avatars in health care As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing, a top company executive today provided… Read More
PopCap Games: By the numbers Word that PopCap Games is in talks to be acquired — perhaps by Electronics Arts — for more than $1… Read More
Report: Mystery buyer acquiring PopCap for more than $1B TechCrunch reports this afternoon that Seattle’s PopCap Games, maker of hit casual games including Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, is… Read More
Roundup: PopCap, Walk Score, Big Fish, LulzSec and more There’s a lot shaking in tech today, so here’s a roundup of some items that have crossed the GeekWire news… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 rules the U.S. console market, again In a down month for video games, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continued to buck the trend in May, according to new… Read More
New York Times casts Microsoft as a relic, but is it really the Kodak of PCs? There’s plenty to criticize Microsoft about these days. The company has fallen behind Apple in mobile phones and tablets. It’s… Read More
This public ‘Angry Birds’ stunt by T-Mobile is incredible You never know where ‘Angry Birds’ is going to show up next. Mobile phones, computers, plush toys .. and now public… Read More
Nintendo unveils Wii U game console, with touch-screen tablet controller Nintendo just unveiled its newest home console, dubbed the Wii U, during a presentation at the E3 video game convention… Read More
Xbox Live plans cloud storage, Facebook friends game matching Looks like Microsoft’s Xbox Live didn’t have room in the company’s E3 media event this morning for all of its… Read More
Microsoft says Halo 4 signals a new trilogy for Xbox 360 Microsoft this morning confirmed plans to extend the blockbuster Halo franchise for Xbox 360 with a new game, Halo 4,… Read More
Halo 4 in development, and other E3 leaks from Microsoft’s own site Halo 4 is “on the way.” That’s the (inadvertently) official word from Microsoft this morning. The company isn’t taking the stage… Read More
Hacker group hits Nintendo, no consumer data stolen Nintendo of America confirmed today that its computer servers in the U.S. were infiltrated by the hacker group Lulzsec a few… Read More
Name that Tech Tune: What is this classic video game theme song? In honor of next week’s big E3 video-game convention, this week’s Name that Tech Tune contest digs into the archives… Read More
Platform or not, Microsoft’s Xbox business is booming Next week is the big E3 video-game convention, and Microsoft’s Xbox team this morning kicked off the competitive jockeying by… Read More
Geek of the Week: Sendi Widjaja, Avvo CTO Our latest Geek of the Week, Sendi Widjaja, is the CTO at lawyer and doctor ratings site Avvo. He has… Read More
Seattle Symphony’s ode to video games: The music of Halo, Zelda and Mario Forget about Brahms, Beethoven or Bach. The Seattle Symphony is bringing some other classics — with names like Mario, Master… Read More
Seattle Retro Gaming Expo this weekend: ‘The coolest thing since that show Alf’ That console over there and many of those games occupied so many hours of my youth, it’s almost hard to… Read More
How to woo students to Windows PCs: Give them a free Xbox 360? This will either be considered a stroke of marketing genius, or a blight on the educational system as we know… Read More
Nerd Notes: Angry Birds lands late, DealSpringer pumps up, and Hef sidesteps Jobs Twitter, Facebook and other online distractions are costing our economy dearly. Here, go spend some time reading a story about… Read More
Amazon’s new Appstore gets first crack at PopCap’s new Android games PopCap Games this morning announced an agreement that gives Amazon.com a limited-time exclusive deal for the new Android versions of… Read More
Sony to PlayStation users: We’re back, we’re sorry, now please change your password Well, at least they got it back online before E3. After more than three weeks of downtime following an online… Read More
