Doug Heder, producer at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and
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Warner’s Lego Dimensions team worked 8 years on latest toy-game hybrid (interview)

Warner Bros. bought TT Games, the maker of Lego video games, about eight years ago. And all that time, it was working on something big: a convergence of video games and toys, according to Jon Burton, managing director of TT Games.

The result is Lego Dimensions, the latest entry in the “toys-to-life” category that ties together video games and toys — and has generated revenues to date of $4 billion. Lego Dimensions debuts on Sept. 27, but we got a sneak preview of the gameplay and talked with two of the people working on it, Doug Heder, producer at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Mark Warburton, associate producer at TT Games.

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