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Exclusive: Zynga picks historic Pioneer Square building for office

Zynga, the fast growing maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other social games, plans to establish its new engineering center… Read More

Buy the Bejeweled app, and donate to Japan earthquake relief efforts

Here’s a way to give back to the relief efforts in Japan. Seattle’s PopCap, maker of popular games such as… Read More

Xbox, Windows unite in internal Microsoft video

Is this the future of Windows PCs? ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft’s “Windows Gaming eXperience”… Read More

Data Dump: Kindle vs. iPad vs. Xbox vs. everything else

Except for maybe those crazies at the front of the iPad 2 line, many of us have become pretty measured… Read More

‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ atop the heap in February (List)

There’s a new king in the U.S. video game market, and it’s not exactly good news for the industry’s efforts… Read More

Xbox 360 scores its biggest non-holiday month ever

Microsoft sold 535,000 Xbox 360s in the United States in February, the biggest month in the console’s history outside of… Read More

More Kinect coolness: Business collaboration and home automation hacks

Microsoft plans to soon release a software development kit allowing hobbyists and academics to build applications for its Kinect motion… Read More

Gaming vets launch Playteau, roll out Fortune Stones

Seattle has a new social gaming startup. It’s called Playteau, and today its releasing its first title, Fortune Stones, on… Read More

Kinect tops 10 million, but Guinness world record a bit shaky

Microsoft this morning announced that the Kinect motion sensor for Xbox 360 has surpassed 10 million units shipped since its… Read More

How Microsoft is using Angry Birds to boost Bing

Is this the ultimate product placement? Microsoft is expanding its relationship with Rovio, the developers of the hit mobile game… Read More

Xbox 3D? Job listings tip Microsoft’s hand

Nice catch by PC World this morning, digging up a series of job posts on LinkedIn that show Microsoft staffing… Read More

Photo Gallery: The characters of Emerald City Comicon

I’ve never seen so many geeks in one place. Emerald City Comicon — held this weekend at the Washington State… Read More

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