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This year, the Greenhouse Area, dedicated to helping small and start-up companies break into the industry, has been extended by 80sqm to accommodate the huge demand for the area and to support the ever-growing talent in the industry.

The show sees entrepreneurs, inventors and licence holders pitch their product to an audience of potential customers and a panel of professional buyers from some of Britain’s best known retailers, with the hope of securing orders.

Australia and the United Kingdom were the only two countries tracked by NPD that experienced declines.

Directed and edited by Andrew Norton, the short film sees creatives including filmmaker David Lynch and skater Ray Barbee share ideas about ideas.

IDW Games has teamed up with Nickelodeon to bring its classic properties to the world of board games.

Nominations are now open for the 2017 Toy & Game Innovation Awards (TAGIEs).

Hasbro’s net revenues for Q2 2017 increased 11 per cent to $972.5m versus $878.9m in 2016.

Mattel CEO Margo Georgiadis – formerly of Google – outlined her plan to win over Generation Alpha at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference.

In addition to the Accelerator’s 13-week schedule of mentorship, training and collaboration, Sensible Object will develop new game concepts that illustrate the potential of voice Artificial Intelligence to augment the play experience.

“We are huge fans of cooperative gaming, but our customers have expressed requests for a competitive mode of gameplay, and so Battles was brought to life,” said Sensible Object CEO Alex Fleetwood.