- Virtual reality will reach 10.6 million consumers by 2016 (alistdaily)
- Mattel’s newest Monster High doll takes inspiration from the Loch Ness Monster (BBC)
- For your Oscar consideration: A Sesame Street parody – Big Birdman (Mashable)
- With Target closing down in Canada, Walmart’s sales jump (Financial Post)
- Stream Market, a leading conference and marketplace for online originals, opens the call for speakers (Stream Daily)
- How Millennial parents are shaping the next generation of toys (Fortune)
- No surprise after its Oculus Rift purchase, Facebook confirms it’s getting into VR apps (The Guardian)
- Director Patrick Osborne on finding the perfect pooch for his Oscar-nominated Disney short Feast (Los Angeles Times)
- Lost Dr. Seuss book What Pet Should I Get? to be a big summer book bet (Wall Street Journal)
- Freeplay Music sues YouTube MCNs including Maker and AwesomenessTV for copyright infringement (Variety)
- Japan launches school for pro-gamers (Anime News Network)
- To help boost popularity for its board games, Hasbro opens new promo to get users to design the Monopoly board (Engadget)
- Classic brands like Barbie go high-tech at Toy Fair 2015 (New York Post)
- Teletubbies creator favors original productions over remakes of classic UK kids shows (The Hollywood Reporter)
- To avoid plot spoilers, Star Wars toys kept under-wraps at Toy Fair (International Business Times)
- From puzzle to mobile game: Kickstarter campaign launches to bring Zoombinis to iOS and Android (VentureBeat)
- Lego X program turns physical bricks into virtual reality creations (alistdaily)
- Major YouTube producers and MCNs already on board startup Epoxy’s online video management platform (Springwise)
- How DreamWorks’ new Apollo software made animators’ lives easier on How To Train Your Dragon 2 (Variety)
- How online video has changed in the 10 years since YouTube went live (The Guardian)
- With Niche acquisition, Twitter gains a sponsorship-based revenue stream (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why Mattel’s mystery product with Google needs to be a hit (The Washington Post)
- After successfully selling its Nerf products to boys and girls, Hasbro goes after high school demo (Forbes)
- Will 2015 see King Digital Entertainment broadening its portfolio? (Wall Street Journal)
- With Target out, Walmart plans massive Canadian expansion (Toronto Star)
- 2017 will be big for Disney, with the next installments of the Avengers, Star Wars and Spider-Man rolling out (Business Insider)
- Hasbro takes board games digital with new handheld Scrabble device (Mashable)
- Technical note: The top issues developers face in designing for virtual reality (gamesindustry.biz)
- Why Netflix is expanding to Cuba (Quartz)
- Sony enlists Marvel to help reinvigorate the Spider-Man franchise (Los Angeles Times)
- Meanwhile, other films in Marvel’s cinematic universe get delayed to make room for Spidey (Digital Trends)
- Study finds only 12% of protagonists were female in the top-grossing films of 2014 (Variety)
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