Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued Avalanche Studios after Disney buried it Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 27, 2017 5 min Disney and Warner Bros. have taken very different strategies in video games, and Avalanche Software, the decades-old Salt Lake City development studio, was caught... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Disney closes in for the kill with Star Wars: Rise Against the Empire play set for Infinity 3.0 Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 5, 2015 7 min Disney takes the wraps off its second major game in the Star Wars Disney Infinity 3.0 series. Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business Star Wars characters are the epic finale for Disney Infinity 3.0 Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 5, 2015 7 min Disney squeezes in two more Infinity 3.0 Star Wars games before the next movies arrive. Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic — ‘Begun, The Clones Wars have’ in Disney Infinity 3.0 Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 26, 2015 4 min Disney is shooting to make Star Wars on Infinity into multigenerational fun. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Disney and Marvel talk about Disney Infinity 2.0, toy designs, and the Hulk’s awesomeness Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes May 2, 2014 5 min Executives from both Marvel and Avalanche tell us what it was like to finally bring some famous comic book icons to the game. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Disney unveils its Lone Ranger version of Infinity toy-video game hybrid (preview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 6, 2013 6 min Disney Infinity will have a bunch of playsets available when it launches in August. Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Disney Infinity looks like a Skylanders clone, but its roots go deep at Disney’s Avalanche (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 6, 2013 8 min By creating a platform, Disney seeks an answer to a business problem of having too many properties. Continue Reading 8 min