Nintendo broke months of silence on Wednesday morning with an hour-long pre-recorded livestream devoted to the upcoming Switch 2. It’s scheduled for release on June 5 for a starting MSRP… Read More
Reports spread on Tuesday via social media that Wizards of the Coast, the Renton, Wash.-based company that publishes Dungeons & Dragons, has dismissed most of the employees that were working… Read More
Grant Hinkson spent almost nine years at Amazon, leading design engineering within the company’s Devices and Services Design Group. He left a little over a year ago to launch his… Read More
In advance of this year’s Game Developers Conference, Microsoft revealed a new version of its AI-powered personal assistant Copilot that’s designed for the Xbox platform. The new program, called Copilot… Read More
In a new blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft’s research department debuted a new generative AI model called Muse that it describes as a “breakthrough” for gameplay ideation. Muse is a… Read More
A Seattle-based team that contributed to development on the popular online action game Marvel Rivals has reportedly been dismissed by its parent company. Game director Thaddeus Sasser announced via LinkedIn… Read More
A new book, The Insider’s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft, finds universal business lessons in the company’s successes and also its failures, through case studies about different products and teams in various scenarios and stages of evolution. … Read More
The future of Dungeons & Dragons was a secret inside a secret. Wizards of the Coast hasn’t left Renton, Wash., but it did move out of its previous Landmark building… Read More
Canadian video game developer Phoenix Labs, creator of Dauntless and Fae Farm, announced Monday that it’s laying off a majority of its staff. The news came via a post on… Read More
It’s been a long, strange year for video games. We’ve seen some great releases, like Balatro, Astro Bot, and Pacific Drive, but the industry is riding a global downturn, multiple… Read More
Valve is making a notable shift with its portable gaming strategy as Lenovo debuted a new edition of its Legion Go gaming handheld that runs Valve’s custom operating system. Valve,… Read More
As 2024 draws to a close, one advisory firm predicts the video game industry will see a major rebound in 2025 following two years of declines. San Diego-based DFC Intelligence… Read More
Quick, think of every five-letter word you can that has anything to do with Seattle. If several popped into your head right away, you should be entering the Wordy-verse from… Read More
SparkToro co-founder Rand Fishkin announced Monday that he raised $2.15 million for a new independent video game studio in Seattle. In a post on the official SparkToro blog, Fishkin wrote… Read More
Seattle-based video game developer Starform raised $6 million in a new funding round to continue work on its air combat game Metalstorm. The new round of funding was led by… Read More
Sony on Tuesday announced the closure of Firewalk Studios, 18 months after acquiring the Bellevue, Wash.-based game developer. Firewalk’s first and only project was Concord, a multiplayer action game for… Read More
Seattle-based Loot Labs, which owns and operates the collectibles platform Boxed.gg, raised a $6 million seed round investment to expand its ongoing venture into digital collectibles. Global venture capital firm… Read More
In a surprise reveal, Microsoft announced a new direction for the Halo series, which includes switching out its engine and changing the name of its main development studio. The news… Read More
Mox Boarding House, the tabletop game store and dining experience that started in Seattle, is expanding to Arizona with a new location opening in the city of Chandler next week.… Read More
This year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle opened last week with a keynote presentation by Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, which focused on five video games that had influenced him… Read More
Baseball fans looking to dive deeper into their favorite team or take on a diversion from the current state of play — oh, hey Mariners — have a new Seattle-made online… Read More
The original creators of the Risk of Rain video game series are sunsetting both their current project and their studio, in order to go work for Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software.… Read More
At first glance, Deepwell DTX’s Zengence (pronounced like “vengeance”) is what video game fans might call a rail shooter. At the start of the game, you’re sent down a one-way… Read More
Mudstack is adding a veteran Seattle-based gaming exec as its new leader and raising capital from top venture capitalists as it looks to supercharge its content management software built for… Read More
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I attended a preview event on Wednesday for Mirra, a new virtual reality entertainment center opening later this month in Bellevue, Wash. Based… Read More
A new class action lawsuit alleges that Valve Software is a “platform monopolist” that has kept game prices artificially high and prevented other companies from gaining a foothold in the… Read More
Virtual reality entertainment startup Mirra plans to open its first location in Bellevue, Wash. in August. Mirra is a “social entertainment venue” that offers an assortment of unique VR games… Read More
Microsoft and Amazon announced Thursday that they are partnering to bring the Xbox gaming app to two models of Fire TV devices in July. This allows Xbox Game Pass subscribers… Read More
k-ID, a startup headquartered in Singapore and Seattle that’s building tools for online youth safety, announced Tuesday that it raised a $45 million Series A funding round. Billed as a… Read More
Galvanic Games, the independent Seattle-based developer behind video games such as Some Distant Memory, Rapture Rejects, and last fall’s Wizard With a Gun, is closing its doors. Studio head and… Read More
