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
Slay the Spire 2, a sequel to the hit 2019 video game, is planned for release next year via Steam Early Access. Its developer, the Seattle-based studio Mega Crit, made… Read More
Pacific Drive is a survival game where your car’s survival is more important than yours. You’ve ended up stuck in an isolated part of the Olympic Peninsula where reality’s coming… Read More
Update, Feb. 6: A new filing with the Washington state employment security department shows an additional 70 workers cut from Unity’s workforce in Bellevue. A fresh round of layoffs at… Read More
Every fall in Washington state, hobby designers, garage developers, and eccentric tinkerers get together to show off their independently-produced video games at a two-part event, the Seattle Indies Expo. The… Read More
In the wake of a controversial policy change by game engine developer Unity, dozens of small independent video game studios have announced they’ll abandon the engine and/or have called upon… Read More
After the production delays and supply disruptions of the last few years, 2023 is where the games industry is set to really start picking up speed. The Pacific Northwest is… Read More
Washington state hosts one of the largest game development communities in the U.S., second only to California. Portland and Vancouver both have their own massive gaming scenes, which typically means… Read More
The Penny Arcade Expo has traditionally been a big event for the Pacific Northwest’s game development community, but 2022’s show in September took it up several notches. This year’s PAX… Read More
In a rare sort of deal for the video game industry, Bellevue, Wash.-based indie game publisher tinyBuild announced Friday that it bought the property rights for several comedic games from… Read More
At 12 years old, Max Trest is already an established independent video game developer who has even created a game with the Unity engine. That project, Astrolander, which Max developed… Read More
Microsoft wants more indie game developers to use its cloud services with the debut of a new suite of cloud-based tools called ID@Azure. The program, announced as part of the… Read More
An Emmy-winning visual effects artist has joined an industry colleague and a veteran video game producer to found a new video game development studio in Vancouver, B.C. Blinkmoon, founded in… Read More
Several of the creators behind games such as Marvel’s Spider-Man, What Remains of Edith Finch, Ashen, Journey, Ratchet & Clank, and Skyrim have announced the creation of a new, remote-first… Read More
The indies ran the floor at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, showing off everything from classic role-playing experiences to frantic spaceship repair. PAX is typically a big event… Read More
Although PAX West was dramatically scaled-back this year in Seattle due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, indie game developers that came to the expo to show off their games still… Read More
If you’ve ever wanted to recruit a who’s-who of characters from folklore, mythology, and the public domain, then send them to fight and die on your behalf, Storybook Brawl is… Read More
The makers of the hit indie game Rivals of Aether announced Monday that they’ve founded a new studio in Seattle to continue work on their next game. Aether Studios is… Read More
Among Us, the viral hit PC and mobile murder mystery game, has come under attack from a particularly vicious spambot. Starting on Thursday evening, hundreds of players in public matches… Read More
I called Roundguard dangerous when I saw it at last year’s PAX West, and now that I’ve played the full version, I’m standing by that. It’s a deliberate fusion between… Read More
The most impressive thing about the Playdate is that it’s being made at all. Portland, Ore.-based Panic announced its new portable gaming handheld back in May, and has been clear… Read More
It’s tough to make a traditional recommendation for Zachtronics’s Eliza. It’s a thoughtful, short visual novel – an interactive, illustrated story – that makes a point of realistically depicting someone… Read More
Harold Ryan has had a long career in the video game industry. His first job was as a tester for the 1996 Windows game Hellbender. From there, he worked his… Read More
In a month that was riddled with big video game releases, the most unexpected success story of September turned out to be the indie game about being a very rude… Read More
Fandom is probably best-known for its network of fan wikis. The San Francisco-based entertainment platform was originally founded in 2004 as Wikicities, by Angela Beesley Starling and Wikipedia co-creator Jimmy… Read More
The depth and breadth of projects coming out of the Pacific Northwest indie gaming community was in the spotlight earlier this month at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. PAX… Read More
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw ($29.99 on the Epic Games Store) is a sprawling, open-ended game of space trading and combat that is aggressively uninterested in teaching you how to play it.… Read More
tinyBuild, notably weird indie video game publisher based in Bellevue, Wash., kicked off its Penny Arcade Expo on Thursday evening by announcing several new games, as well as a release… Read More
— Every Labor Day weekend, thousands of gamers descend upon the Washington State Convention Center for PAX West, the Pacific Northwest’s largest gaming convention. The 2019 edition marks the… Read More
The Church in the Darkness, a game from Seattle-based Paranoid Productions that took nearly five years to develop, is a difficult and often unfair stealth/suspense thriller with a heavy dose… Read More
