The 10th anniversary Chicago Toy & Game Fair continued its tradition as the nation’s largest public play event, attracting more than 25,000 people to Navy Pier on the weekend before Thanksgiving. The Fair was the finale of Chicago Toy & Game Week, which featured industry seminars, a highly celebrated inventor awards gala, and a new toy-inspired fashion show, playCHIC. [Read more...]
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Skylanders Trap Team Brings Digital Characters into the Physical World
April 23, 2014 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment
Activision’s newest installment to the $2 billion Skylanders franchise, Skylanders Trap Team, redefines the toys-to-life phenomenon with a new ground-breaking innovation. Unveiled today, the new game will reverse the magic of bringing toys to life by allowing kids to pull villains—including Kaos—out of the digital world and into the physical world. In Skylanders Trap Team, [...]
New Ebook Further Develops Watch Dogs’ Cyberpunk World
April 23, 2014 By Phil Guie Leave a Comment
Ubisoft will release a new e-book, Watch_Dogs //n/Dark Clouds, authored by John Shirley and inspired by the highly anticipated video game, Watch Dogs. The e-book picks up where the game leaves off, allowing fans to further explore the world of Watch Dogs. It marks a first for Ubisoft, which conceived the e-book in-house and will [...]
Beach Chess Goes Indiegogo for Funding
April 22, 2014 By Phil Guie Leave a Comment
An Indiegogo campaign has been launched for Beach Chess, which consists of one white cube and one black cube. Each of the cube’s six faces features an outline of each of the six unique chess pieces—pawn, rook, knight, bishop, king, queen. Each cube measures about 2.5 inches square and fits in the hand. The black [...]
Nintendo’s NES Remix 2 Hearkens Back to 1990 World Championship
April 22, 2014 By Phil Guie Leave a Comment
NES Remix 2 will launch exclusively at the Nintendo eShop on Wii U on April 25. The game has a new mode inspired by the 1990 Nintendo World Championship, which challenged players to achieve the highest cumulative score in three specific games through a multiplier-based scoring system. The three games in Championship Mode include Super [...]
The Future of Jakks Pacific Is Looking Marvel-ous
April 21, 2014 By Phil Guie Leave a Comment
Jakks Pacific Inc. will launch a line of toys based on existing and upcoming Marvel characters and properties. The collection will include R/C vehicles, electric- and battery-operated train and track sets, and handheld 3D character flashlights based on Marvel animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., and Marvel’s Avengers Assemble. There will [...]
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