More and more small toy businesses are using sites like Kickstarter to acquire funding and bring their products to market. The crowdfunding website has seen a number of fresh toys manufactured and shipped, including Atoms (pictured), a ...
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Games are an important element in every culture around the globe. Simple games give structure to children's playtime and help enforce basic social skills like courtesy, sharing, and taking turns, and more intricate games can help children ...
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The creator of Monopoly: British Army Edition has called on retailers to support the game. Martin Underwood has been campaigning to get Army Monopoly manufactured to raise money for charities like The British Legion and Help For ...
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Wonder Forge is showcasing its new line of games based on Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property this week at New York Toy Fair. Hitting retail from spring, the range will include Flying Attack skill and action board game ...
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Bobby O'Neal (aka. Dr Love) from Mission, BC, Canada has developed a love game app that is sure to spice up Valentine's Day for couples worldwide. O'Neal has a reputation for creating fun relationship enhancing love products. He is the ...
A cat is set to replace the classic iron token used in Monopoly. Fans from 185 countries voted for the change on Facebook as part of the Monopoly "Save Your Token" campaign, which featured on the cover of ToyNews' February issue. The ...
A board game inspired by the Hexbug range of robotic creatures will be released in the spring. Ravensburger has signed up as licensee of Hexbug owner Innovation First, and the two will work on Kakerlakak, themed around the toys. ...
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Paul Lamond is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who with a DVD board game. The game, which is on show at Toy Fair and launches this summer, contains over 100 clips taken from the sci-fi TV series and thousands of trivia ...
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Game veteran wants to work with toy suppliers to bring dice rolling to virtual games. A new type of die hopes to change the way people play virtual board games. Dice+ can be used to interact with a digital board game, whether it's ...
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One of the frustrations of Hurricane Sandy is that even our best efforts could not prevent a huge amount of destruction. Consider my friend Adam Wexler, owner of Resolution Audio Video in the waterfront section of Red Hook in Brooklyn. ...
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The fate of the eight classic Monopoly tokens such as the Scottie dog, race car and top hat is in the hands of consumers, after Hasbro launched a worldwide vote to determine which one will be eliminated from the game. To make sure ...
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Snowed In Studios, an Ottawa-based video game and interactive media developer, and partner Le Scorpion Masque, a Montreal-based board game publisher, announced today the release of the engaging and educational Monster Chase game for mobile ...
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One of the most exciting slot machines around is the Monopoly themed, Monopoly Plus version slot game which is full of bonus rounds. Online casino SpinandWin.com is about to introduce a new slot machine to its range of online slot games, ...
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For the fourth Christmas Eve since her son's murder, Julia Hudson, along with her sister, singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tried to create something positive out of her family's tragedy. The Hudson sisters and volunteers gave Christmas ...
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A colleague who shall go unnamed is in the process or moving and has ed what he believes to be tainted treasure. He writes: I have a really old iBook that's still running 10.2.8 and iTunes 4. I am trying to deauthorize this computer, ...
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