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GameHouse Employees Helped Raise $63,000 For Northwest Harvest

By on Dec 21, 2011 in Just for Fun
GameHouse Employees Helped Raise $63,000 For Northwest Harvest

There are two things I’m very passionate about: gaming, of course, and giving. So I immediately jumped at the opportunity to join Real Networks CMO, Judy Bitterli and Deborah Squires, Director of Community Engagement for Northwest Harvest on the shores of Lake Washington on Tuesday morning to celebrate a very important company milestone. I’m so proud to report that employees at GameHouse and Real raised over $63,000 for Northwest Harvest, which will create 282,000 warm…

What Games Would Celebrities Play?

By on Nov 25, 2011 in Just for Fun
What Games Would Celebrities Play?

It’s the holidays, and that means lots of chit-chat at dinners and parties all season long. We’re all familiar with the conversation-starter “If you were a celebrity, which celebrity would you be?” But at GameHouse, we’ve got games on the brain – so we asked ourselves, “which games would our favorite celebrities play?” Here’s what we decided: 1. Conan O’Brien With Conan’s keen wit and observational eye, he’s a natural hidden object games fan. But…

Finding love at a card game

By on Nov 8, 2011 in Games, Just for Fun
Finding love at a card game

UNO is one of the world’s most popular card games. It is played by millions people on Facebook each year. People from all around the world enjoy this game, and in our recent 40 Days of UNO Tournament, we had over 52 million minutes of play! How neat is it, then, when in thousands of games with thousands of players on at any time, two people would happen to sit at the same table in…

Games aren’t just in our name…

By on Nov 1, 2011 in Just for Fun
Games aren’t just in our name…

The GameHouse studio (and the rest of RealNetworks) take Halloween very seriously. Every year, a number of teams throughout the company compete by decorating their team space with some sort of fun theme. This year, the GameHouse team created a life-size Pac Man game! Visitors were asked to wear a cap with an iPhone 4 taped to it. They had to wear a big Pac Man costume and had 2 minutes to follow a trail…

Welcome to the New GameHouse Blog!

By on Oct 10, 2011 in Just for Fun
Welcome to the New GameHouse Blog!

Hi everyone, We’re excited to share our new blog with you! Let’s take a quick tour and check out the highlights of what’s new. Facebook & Twitter: Spread the Word Read a post that you just have to share? No problem. Our new blogs make it easy to “Like” a post and share it with friends on your Facebook wall, or to “Tweet” it to all your followers. Just for Fun: Check it Out It’s…