The blinking, beeping chaos of an arcade is a welcome sight after months of doldrums just off the corner of Seventh and Pike. “All the games are still the same,” former COO of GameWorks Darren Des Roches said during a walkthrough last week of the new, but clearly same-old, GameWorks.
The giant entertainment center aims to reopen Wednesday afternoon following a Covid-induced shutdown. Its parent company, which was started in 1997 by Sega, Universal Studios, and DreamWorks (Steven Spielberg’s studio), closed all of its locations just before Christmas of 2021. But passion for the chain’s original site in Seattle led Howard Brand and former GameWorks CEO Greg Stevens to revive the
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