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GeekWire Podcast: Gamification, Chromebooks, and Microsoft’s Skype deal finally explained

This week on the GeekWire Podcast we explore the world of gamification with guest Keith Smith, CEO of BigDoor, a Seattle… Read More

Xbox 360 leads in U.S. again; Microsoft says Kinect games will triple this year

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continued its reign atop the U.S. console market in April, according to data from the NPD Group… Read More

How Big Fish knocked Angry Birds off its iPad perch (at least on Mother’s Day)

Call it the Mother’s Day mobile blitz. Big Fish Games made a serious push this past weekend with its mobile… Read More

Bungie Aerospace? Halo maker stirs speculation with mysterious filings

Is Bungie the new Boeing? Probably not. But the company behind the blockbuster “Halo” games for Microsoft’s Xbox appears to… Read More

How Z2Live accidentally hired a 17-year-old whiz for its new iPhone air combat game

In the annals of high-tech, this may be one of the more unusual hiring stories. Z2Live, maker of the popular… Read More

Discovery Bay Games scores $12M to create a new class of iPad accessories

Discovery Bay Games CEO Craig Olson didn’t expect to raise $12 million when he set out on the fundraising trail… Read More

Roundup: ID guru leaves Microsoft, Google Maps goes indoors, EA downplays discs

A quick rundown of news stories catching our attention this afternoon … Google Maps is going indoors with panoramic photos… Read More

Video game school picks Seattle Center for new campus

With companies such as Big Fish, PopCap, Nintendo, Microsoft and Valve, Seattle is a well established center for video game development.… Read More

With eyes on Facebook, RealNetworks’ GameHouse makes ‘Lets Make a Deal’ deal

GameHouse, the last big content-producing business inside Seattle’s RealNetworks, is still awaiting its own deal — a long-planned spinoff that… Read More

Mindbloom’s Life Game scores a giant customer: Aetna

Seattle startup Mindbloom has reached a multi-year agreement with health insurance giant Aetna, which will offer an enhanced version of… Read More

Redbox getting into video games, like for reals this time

Coming soon to the front stoop of your local 7-Eleven: Master Chief and Mario. Redbox, the movie-rental subsidiary of Bellevue-based… Read More

Hulu Plus on Xbox Live … just in time for PlayStation outage

Microsoft plans to launch the long-awaited Hulu Plus service for its Xbox Live network tomorrow, allowing Xbox Live Gold members… Read More

Nine-year-old boy gets his wish, creates an iPhone game

Most nine-year-old boys dream of meeting sports stars like Ichiro, Matt Hasselbeck or Kasey Keller. Not Owain Weinert. Weinert simply… Read More

Microsoft brings Clippy back … for Office training game

Hi, it looks like you’re playing a game! Would you like some help? OK, so thankfully that’s not what happens… Read More

PlayStation Network outage actually massive theft of personal info

Sony this afternoon disclosed that an “unauthorized person” hacked into its PlayStation Network online gaming system and obtained personal information… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Social Gaming Network sells out to Chris DeWolfe’s new gig, MindJolt

Chris DeWolfe, the University of Washington grad who went on to co-found MySpace, continues to reinvent himself as an online… Read More

Penny Arcade expands empire with new developer event

Interesting news this weekend from the team behind the ever-growing Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX: Building on the… Read More

Meet Neil Roseman: The ex-Amazon exec leading the charge for Zynga in Seattle

Neil Roseman probably could have used his technical talents to build a new startup company in Seattle. Instead, the former… Read More

Nintendo 3DS falls short of DS launch, but beats it in revenue

Nintendo’s 3DS didn’t sell as many units in its U.S. launch last month as the original Nintendo DS did during… Read More

Geek of the Week: Erica McGillivray, GeekGirlCon

We’re kicking off a new feature today, a GeekWire “Geek of the Week” honor for the Pacific Northwest technology community.… Read More

Startup launch: Jumala makes a game out of creating games

Why would you want to just play a video game, when you could be the mastermind who actually helped design… Read More

PopCap to unleash ‘weirdness’ with 4th & Battery studio

PopCap Games sometimes takes months or years to develop its titles, a process that has paid off in spades with… Read More

Microsoft unveils new Xbox hardware … for game developers

Microsoft today announced a new piece of Xbox hardware that could make Xbox 360 games better, in the long… Read More

Android and iPhone game development in a snap: That’s the promise of Zipline

What has Zipline Games co-founder Todd Hooper been building in the basement of Founder’s Co-op over the past few months?… Read More

Nintendo: ‘We don’t want to be in the phone business’

Nintendo is a master at building portable gaming gadgets, as evidenced by the recent release of the company’s 3DS device.… Read More

Casual game maker PassionFruit sold to marketing agency

PassionFruit Games, a maker of casual video games for women, has been acquired by Rally Marketing Group in a deal… Read More

Sony Online to shut doors on Bellevue game studio

Sony Online Entertainment is closing down game studios in Bellevue, Denver and Tucson, Arizona, a move which will eliminate 205… Read More

Nintendo releases 3DS, and it already has one huge fan in Jimmy Fallon: ‘This is insane’

Gaming nerds spent Saturday night waiting in lines across the country in order to gobble up Nintendo’s new 3DS, which… Read More

Nintendo 3DS: Ready to pay $250 for a handheld?

Nintendo has said all along that people will need to see its new Nintendo 3DS to fully appreciate the glasses-free… Read More

Gov. Gregoire: Washington businesses have donated more than $7M to earthquake relief

PopCap Games raised more than $200,000 this past weekend for Japan’s earthquake relief efforts by donating proceeds from mobile app… Read More