GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Thomas Wilde on Jan 10, 2025 at 8:00 ...

Sony's PlayStation series began in 1994 as an offshoot of a failed project to develop a CD-ROM add-on for Nintendo's SNES. In the three decades since, the PlayStation gaming brand has remained ...

Rob Landes plays a violin medley showcasing the evolution of game console startups from 1989-2017, including Sega, Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox, and Wii. Billionaire who gave $130M to military during ...

Video game consoles are fun. We all have our favorites, mostly dictated by our memories of the plastic boxes we spent our childhood with, but the legacy of some consoles transcends generations, and ...

Video games are still a young medium in the grand scheme of things, but have been around for well over 50 years now. After the arcade boom in the 70s, home consoles slowly took over the gaming ...

Console startup sounds are supposed to be iconic. Memorable. Maybe even comforting. But let’s be honest—some of them were straight-up annoying. Whether it was the audio equivalent of a jump scare or a ...

While 2024 provided plenty of great gameplay (and a few disappointments), 2025 has a rather full slate. Expected releases this year include long-awaited and long-promised sequels, new entries in major ...

Valve Corp. is unveiling the Steam Machine, a new device for playing PC games in the living room, to be released in early ...