Beep-Beep: Bandai Namco is launching a Star Wars R2-D2 Tamagotchi
Bandai America unveiled its first collaboration with Lucasfilm: a Star Wars R2-D2 Tamagotchi virtual pet toy. That means your favorite droid from Star Wars will...
Sphero acquires modular electronics company LittleBits
Sphero, the nine-year-old Colorado-based company best known for its lineup of programmable robots, this week completed a major acquisition that catapults it to the...
Lego Hidden Side uses ‘haunted’ toys to advance AR on Android and iOS
Though Apple and Google both improved their augmented reality tools for developers last year, AR didn’t have a particularly strong 2018, as consumers largely...
LittleBits’ Avengers Hero Inventor Kit turns kids into superhero programmers
LittleBits' Avengers Hero Inventor Kit puts kids in the shoes of their favorite superhero -- and teaches them how to code, too.
Ubisoft unveils Starlink video game with toys that attach to your controller
Ubisoft is coming a little late to the toy-game hybrid craze started by Activision’s Skylanders in 2011. But the French video game publisher has...
The Anki Cozmo toy robot has personality, intelligence … and might rule the world
It’s a remarkably strange experience when you are defeated by a robot. You feel a little foolish or wonder if the world is going...
The evil genius of Skylanders: Swap Force (preview)
The new Skylanders can jump and change body parts. Will that be enough to fend off Disney?
Skylanders: Swap Force will have 256 character combinations (video interview)
Nathanielsz tells us why we want to buy more Skylanders toy-game hybrids.
New wave of Skylanders Giants action figures start hitting retailers
Eye-Brawl, Thumpback, and more are headed to toy retailers around the country.
Christmas for ‘u’ and ‘i’: Kids want iPads, iPods, iPhones … and a Wii U
Wondering what to get that kid on your Christmas list? Wonder no more, the answer is easy. But warm up the credit cards -- it is going to put a massive dent in your finances.