Do you believe in the therapeutic power of video games? So do we. more ›

We'll give you three reasons you should buy tickets for this right now: hobnobbing, drinking, and the sense of self-importance you get from attending fundraisers. more ›

A full 72-hours of the yearly gamer take-over of downtown Seattle has come to a close. The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX Prime 2011) washed over the Washington State Convention Center leaving locals and tourists not involved in the event asking, "What in the world is going on here this weekend? Why are so many people dressed up like Mario and giant painted cardboard cubes?" more ›

For thousands of gamers, nerds, geeks - and yes, a few girls - this is the most glorious time of the year. more ›

Speaking of Mike Davidson, the Seattle PostGlobe posse, and all-digital news platforms, tomorrow night is round two of No News Is Bad News: "Making It Work" (7-9 p.m., Bertha Landes Room, City Hall). The focus is on current and near-term models in the post-newspaper ecosystem, and Cory Bergman (MSNBC, LostRemote.com, MyBallard.com) moderates a panel that includes WSB's Tracy Record, Penny Arcade's Robert Khoo, Newsvine's Davidson, Instivate's Scott Durham, Seattle PostGlobe's Kerry Murakami, and InvestigationsWest's Rita Hibbard. You can reserve your free ticket here. more ›

8bitjoystick called Seattlest out yesterday (which we love, btw, whether you do it on your random blog you expect us to magically find, or you have at us in the comments or you send us email. Please, tell us what we're missing and we'll consider it internally and then publicly enumerate the reasons why you're wrong.), and, befitting a blog about video games, 8bitjoystick is all over us for our lack of video game coverage. more ›

Seattle needs real world, technology-focused get togethers. Desperately. Microsoft does some things and so do some of the other larger shops in town but they tend not to be general attendance-type events. There's Mindcamp. There's the Penny Arcade thing, sort of. There might be a few others we're not thinking of right now, but come on, we feel like we should be able to name a dozen or so events. more ›

This past weekend's edition of the Penny Arcade Expo was a mecca for gaming nerds, geeks, and designers, who all swarmed Bellevue's Meydenbauer Center for what proved to be the ultimate in niche catering. It was a weekend filled with big crowds and long lines (nearly twenty thousand in attendance over the weekend) and no shortage of enthusiasm, and despite Seattlest just barely fitting into the target demographic, we have to say we're looking forward to next year's edition, where we can once again show these young kids what's what in the gaming world. We may have started out with Pong, but we surprised a few other attendees with how much we've kept up with the gaming world despite our relative old age. Read on after the jump. more ›

We'll be quick with this post, since we've got "tournament training" to finish. This weekend is PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo. This will be the third and largest incarnation of the conference, which is part symposium, part convention, entirely geeky. Gaming nerds of all stripes descend upon Bellevue's Meydenbauer Center for a weekend of competition, education, concerts and demonstrations from the gaming world. more ›

John Bruce "Jack" Thompson is an attorney often cited in the media for his views on the effects of obscenity and violence in popular media. That's cribbed directly out of the Wikipedia entry for him and that same Wikipedia entry contains a large warning that the neutrality of the entry is disputed, which is cool to see in an encyclopedia. Jack Thompson has been hating on popular culture (the neutraility of this post should definitely be disputed) since lawsuits against 2 Live Crew back in the Eighties. Howard Stern, Grand Theft Auto, the list of defendants contains all the usual suspects. more ›

The wildly popular and absolutely hilarious online comic Penny Arcade is penned in Seattle; Fremont and Kirkland, last we heard. It's mostly about video games so if you play video games religiously there's a good chance you follow the strip religiously. If you follow the strip religiously than you've already heard that the creators are coming out on the bright side of a long legal tunnel involving their books and their rights to publish books right now. That's great news, right? Because these guys are really funny and we'd love to see them making some noise offline with the books they have on the way. more ›