Fred Wood at PAX West 2021. (Photo by Tim Ellis) Although PAX West was scaled back dramatically this year in Seattle due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, indie game developers who came to the expo to showcase their games still viewed the experience as a success. The main exhibition hall at PAX West was a … Read more
Apple has agreed to change several rules for its app store as part of a settlement with developers who filed a class action lawsuit against the company. The main change is that Apple is “making it clear” that developers can send emails to users “using payment methods outside of their iOS app.” The company has … Read more
The employees of Typhoon Studios, the developer of Journey to the Savage Planet, reform themselves under the name Raccoon Logic. In an announcement, the team said they should “boldly go back to where they were,” the doomed acquisition of the company by Google. Raccoon Logic also announced that the team has repurchased the rights to … Read more
At the end of the Epic vs. Apple study, Apple CEO Tim Cook took a position to provide the study’s most anticipated testimony. After a much-quoted statement that “I’m not a gamer,” Cook testified earlier that day about Apple’s business in China and its privacy policy. However, some of the toughest questions came from U.S. … Read more
Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that leverages discoverability, desirability and do-ability … Read more
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. (GeekWire file photo) Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former Windows President Steven Sinofsky met for a surprising conversation on Thursday evening when they appeared together in the conversation app Clubhouse by invitation only. The two tech leaders, who weren’t exactly the friendliest breakup, joked and remembered as guests “The … Read more