Total Recall game on the way from Good Cop Bad Cop designers
Brian Henk and Clayton Skancke, the designers behind Good Cop Bad Cop, have created Total Recall: The Official Tabletop Game.
Original Planet of the Apes movie gets board game treatment from Richard Launius
The original Planet of the Apes movie series is getting the board game treatment courtesy of a new partnership between IDW Games and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products.
CMON’s Zombicide: Green Horde raises over $5m on Kickstarter
Zombicide: Green Horde has become CMON’s biggest ever game on Kickstarter, raising a mammoth $5,004,614.
Kim Kardashian launches line of fidget spinners
Fidget spinners have fast become 2017’s first major playground craze, and now reality TV star Kim Kardashian has got in on the act.
Fat Brain Toys teams with Make for Kidventor Challenge
US retailer and toy developer Fat Brain Toys has partnered with Maker to launch the Kidventor Challenge.
Sony’s KOOV coding kits hit Indiegogo
Sony Electronics, in conjunction with Sony Global Education, has launched KOOV, a new coding, design and robotics kit for kids, on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
Toys and gender: What’s a marketeer to do?
Nick Swift, creator of the Modern Horrors card game, looks at the challenges faced by toy firms when it comes to gender-neutral marketing and pushing ‘progressive’ product lines.
Mattel opens itself up to product ideas from consumers with My Mattel Ideas
Submissions need to include a product name, description and a few sentences on what makes the product different from anything else on the market.
Kickstarter Gold initiative sees Candylab Toys, Cubetto and 3Doodler return to the platform
Now through to July 31st, a group of over 65 artists, designers, musicians, and makers will be back on Kickstarter with projects that put a twist on their past campaigns.
Argos unveils top toys for Christmas 2017
Argos has revealed its predictions for the best selling toys of Christmas 2017.