SAN FRANCISCO — The fruits of Amazon’s Twitch acquisition will be front-and-center later this month at TwitchCon. Twitch CEO Emmett Shear spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday morning in San Francisco and said that his live streaming company will make a “big announcement” related to Amazon at its conference in San Diego on Sept. 30. Amazon paid $1 billion to acquire Twitch in 2014, swooping up a site lets people stream their video game sessions and attracts more than 100 million users and 1.7 million broadcasters per month. It’s described as the “ESPN of the video game industry” where viewers go to watch live… Read More
Bo Daly was trained as an engineer, with early experience in databases and technology consulting, and an internship at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. But he always wanted to make games. As he puts it, he “desperately needed to make games.” He succeeded in that quest, working at companies including Rockstar Games in San Diego, on the “Red Dead Revolver” and “Red Dead Redemption” games. The experience at Rockstar showed him the power of a company that has a clear vision and strong sense of identity — and a built-in audience of gamers that faithfully follows and plays everything the company releases. Today, Daly is the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp, based in San… Read More
Seahawks defenders Richard Sherman and Bobby Wagner were on hand at PAX West this weekend. In between their time spent crushing helmets with tanks, GeekWire caught up with the athletes to talk video games and geekiness. Are Richard Sherman & Bobby Wagner geeks? Sherman was quick to answer with a resounding “yes” and then proceeded to taunt Wagner about his knowledge of the fantasy role-playing game Elder Scrolls. Wagner refused to engage in debate, returning the taunts and questioning Sherman’s ability to beat him at Madden, NBA2K and Call of Duty. Who is the biggest gamer on the Seahawks? According to Sherman, Doug… Read More
There is no shortage of video game companies trying to get attention at PAX West this weekend. Wargaming.net took their marketing promotion to a new level this year, bringing in Seahawks players Richard Sherman and Bobby Wagner to crush a bunch of stuff using an actual Panzer III tank to promote their game World of Tanks Blitz. Sherman and Wagner tossed out t-shirts and got to crush a number of items in front of a big crowd of 12’s egging them on with chants of “SEA” and “HAWKS”. Included in their path of destruction were a drum set, a couple… Read More
If there are three things Seattleites love, it is sports, technology, and coffee. On Sept. 9 and 10, you can get your fill of all three at Seattle’s first Sports Tech Hackathon, which will bring together coders, athletes and entrepreneurs for a full weekend of innovation in sports tech. At the end of the weekend, teams will have a chance to present their projects to a panel of judges, who will assign prizes for the top innovations. The event is hosted by the Seattle Sounders and Galvanize, and Sportradar is opening its API for all participating teams to use. Registration is open to anyone interested in the… Read More
