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Activision unveils Skylanders Battlecast free-to-play mobile card game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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ctivision Publishing announced today that it is launching a new free-to-play mobile card-battle game: Skylanders Battlecast.

The new title coming in 2016 takes the popular “toys-to-life” game franchise onto the popular mobile-game platform of card battlers. It shows that the Activision division of Activision Blizzard is still committed to cracking the challenge of making a popular and profitable mobile game — especially since one of publisher’s other digital card games, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, has helped establish a new $1.2 billion category.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.