This week’s news about the termination of Disney Infinity and the closure of internal Disney Interactive studio Avalanche Software resulting in the loss of three hundred jobs was nothing but tragic. As someone who may have loved the actual toys of Infinity over the game itself, it’s still sad to hear that hundreds of people who were very passionate about…
In a shocking, sad, and out of nowhere turn of events, Disney has decided to close down its Disney Infinity division, effective June. The axing of the division also spells the end for Infinity developer Avalanche software. From Disney: By now you may have heard the news that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue production of Disney Infinity. From the beginning, Disney Infinity was built for…
Last month saw the release of the awesome Marvel Battlegrounds playset for Disney Infinity 3.0 as well as a slew of new figures and a set of power discs. The game is not even a month old and the folks at Marvel games are already teasing new content for the multiplayer brawler. On Tuesday Bill Rosemann, creative director for Marvel…
This Tuesday, Disney Interactive hosted an event where they unveiled some new Marvel Disney Infinity figures that would be launching with the Marvel Battlegrounds play set on March 15th: Ant-Man, Black Panther, Vision, and a solo alien costume Spider-Man. During this same event, it was announced that there would be no 4.0 edition of the popular toys-to-life game, and…
Once upon a time, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Captain America: Civil War were to open in theaters on the same day, drawing the line in the sand for those who love DC, and those who love Marvel. If EB Games Canada is to be believed, DC and Marvel will be going head to head in a…
With the success of all of the toys-to-life games that have sprung up in the market lately, it was only a matter of time before the folks at Lego got in on the action. Lego is one of the most enduring toys on the market today, they have a proven track record in the video…
Whether people like it or not, toys have invaded the video game space and they’re not going anywhere anytime soon. Skylanders, amiibo, Disney Infinity and now Lego Dimensions are all huge business for those involved, selling DLC in the form of plastic figures that bring new characters, vehicles and levels to video games. As someone who loves collecting…
So did anybody other than me not now what “Blue Monday” was? I always thought it was a song by Orgy and yes, I do know it was a cover of a New Order song, but my introduction to it was in the Korn/Limp Bizkit era of musical domination (#3dollarbillyall). In any rate, a quick…
Toys and video games have gone hand in hand for years with little plastic representations of video game characters being sold on the shelves of specialty stores and toy departments, but it was really only until recently with the popularity of games like Skylanders, Disney Infinity, Playmotion and now Lego Dimensions that the two have truly become one. The…
Disney already has one video game property that requires the purchase of additional figures with Disney Infinity, and now they’re adding a second franchise that’s somewhat similar, but with a twist. Launching in October at a cost of $120, with pre-orders being accepted in July, is Playmotion, a role-playing toy that combines mobile devices with figures and…
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