Nintendo has officially ceased development of the Wii Vitality Sensor due to lack of accurate biometric readings, a rather public (though predictable) end for the accessory that comes just six months after reducing its annual Wii U sales projections by 28%, from 5.5 million units to 4 million. Yet Nintendo layoffs are not on the […]
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Disney’s The Lone Ranger opened in theaters last night, with poor reviews surfacing today and a surprising amount of apathy rearing its ugly head for Disney’s would-be summer blockbuster. According to early box-office reports, Despicable Me 2 opened with more than twice the ticket sales of The Lone Ranger, showing that even Johnny Depp can
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We’ve taken a look at many of the Disney Infinity figures and play sets coming scheduled to ship with the game later this summer, including The Lone Ranger play set, the Cars play set, the Davy Jones figure and the Barbossa figure. In this video overview, we take a look at all of those Disney
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The Skylanders saga continues this year with the new Skylanders Swap Force game, and while Swap Force pre-orders at Amazon are always attractive, if you decide to get the next game at Target, we now know the pre-order bonuses you’ll receive for doing so. Starting today, people who pre-order Skylanders Swap Force at Target will
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The discussion about whether playing violent video games causes real-life gun violence has been raging for years. A new report today by Media Coalition Inc. is bound to fuel that fire, claiming that the harm of violent video games has “skewed the debate and fuels misguided calls for censorship.” Although the report’s headline focuses on
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Star Wars Pinball is on its way to the Wii U after all, and its release date is just around the corner. Zen Studios today announced that Star Wars Pinball for Wii U will be available for download on the Nintendo eShop July 11. Star Wars Pinball supports the Wii U GamePad, allowing players display
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With just a few weeks before The Lone Ranger hits theaters (and Johnny Depp tries to pull off Tonto), now’s a great time to discuss the Disney Infinity Lone Ranger Play Set, which we got to play at Disney Interactive’s E3 booth. The game world included in the play set will provide a host of
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In the days following E3, we’ve been discussing the newest toys-to-life craze in the videogame world: Disney Infinity. Borrowing a page from Activision’s Skylanders games, the latest of which (Skylanders Swap Force) we’ll be previewing extensively soon, Disney Infinity uses real-life toys that can be placed on a portal so that figure appears in the
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One of the busiest booths at E3 2013 was Disney Interactive, largely because of their t-shirt press but also because of Disney Infinity, a new game a la Skylanders where real-life toys can be placed on a portal to have that figure/character appear in the on-screen game. I’ve long been a fan of the Disney
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One of our initial stops at E3 2013 was the Disney Interactive booth to see Disney Infinity, a new game a la Activision’s Skylanders in which players can place a real-life toy on an NFC-enabled portal to have that toy appear as a playable character in the game. The Skylanders games have been two of
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