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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.

Six years after running a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the world’s longest marble run, Berlin-based designer Walter Hill has returned to the platform with a line of build-your-own kits.

The Challenge sees a raft of toy and game designers tasked with coming up with new play concepts for The Gruffalo brand.

Phil Sage, senior director of design and development for Hasbro’s iPlay division, was involved in last month’s TEDxWellington in New Zealand with his talk on ‘Why Toys Matter’.

Everything Epic has welcomed former Fantasy Flight Games developer Brady Sadler to its team currently working on Rambo: The Board Game.