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November 30, 2009

November 27, 2009

• Retailers coax shoppers with the VIP treatment on Black Friday (Boston Globe)

• Other retailers experience the Black Friday night life (L.A. Times)

• One dad’s opinion on why EA’s Spore should be used in the classroom (Wired/GeekDad)

• …while more EA properties are hitting toy shelves in the UK (MCVUK)

• Don’t judge a Twi-hard by its cover (Sydney Morning Herald)

November 26, 2009

• Association of National Advertisers join protest surrounding Nielsen’s metric switch (AdAge)

• ComScore reveals October viewing stats for online video (CNet News)

• A look at Ikea’s very cool Facebook marketing campaign using the social network’s photo tagging feature… (Mashable)

• …And a look at Google’s equally cool giant voice search experiment in Times Square for Black Friday (TechCrunch)

• Nintendo prez states 80% of US female gaming market owns Nintendo consoles (Edge Online)

• Tuscon toy inventor/lawyer locked in royalties battle with Marvel Entertainment (Arizona Daily Star)

• Check out this self-heating baby bottle (Gizmodo)

November 25, 2009

• BBC holds talks about floating Worldwide (Financial Times)

• Why are Zhu Zhus selling so well? (Time)

• Google to track TiVO viewing habits (CNet News)

• Electronic Arts CEO weighs in on the digital future of games (Wall Street Journal)

• A look at Avatar’s interactive promo campaign (Mashable)

• Nickelodeon’s food ads slammed in report (CBS News)

• With almost one million views in one day, The Muppets’ rendition of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is not to be missed (YouTube)

• USA Today’s first look at Shrek Forever After (USA Today)

• Lightsaber-wielding robots are here (Gizmodo)

• How National Gaming Day was a success (BoingBoing)

• Live action Mulan movie to hit theaters in China, Singapore and Malaysia this week (Associated Press)

November 24, 2009

• Joost goes under, Adconian Group acquires assets (TechCrunch)

• BBC Worldwide told by BBC Trust to avoid mergers and acquisitions (Variety)

• Endemol acquires Tiger Aspect (The Guardian)

• The online price wars between Amazon and Walmart (New York Times)

• How DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg plans on living happily ever after (Fast Company)

• On making sense of the Twilight phenomenon… (AdAge)

• …and another opinion on why Twilight can help Hollywood see the potential of the women’s market (Huffington Post)

• Major box office return expected for The Princess and the Frog as Disney includes limited releases and high ticket prices for the event (Los Angeles Times)

• The art behind the stitches of LittleBigPlanet (BoingBoing)

November 23, 2009

• Temporary pop-up shops go permanent in the UK (AdAge)

• Social gameco Zynga may be valued at US$1 billion (Bloomberg)

• What’s going down at Disney in the Rich Ross administration (Los Angeles Times)

• China’s vidgame biz could account for a whopping US$6 billion by 2010 (Wall Street Journal/Digits)

• Nintendo Wii to carry paid video content (CNet News)

• Ten titles advance in the Oscar race for best animated short (Hollywood Reporter)

• American Library Association marks second-annual National Gaming Day this past weekend (Washington Post)

• Retail stocks on the rise in advance of the upcoming Black Friday (Wall Street Journal)

• Shocker: The Twilight Saga: New Moon smashes box office records on its opening weekend (Variety)

November 20, 2009

• Have you heard? The Twilight Saga: New Moon opens today and the reviews are pouring in (Chicago Sun-Times)

• Disney to debut The Possibility Shop, its first branded entertainment program sponsored by Clorox (AdAge)

• Is Foursquare the next Twitter? (CNN)

• Thoughts on buying GameStop after mediocre Q3 results (BloggingStocks)

• YouTube goes 3-D too (BoingBoing)

• Facebook now valued at a cool US$9.5 billiion (Mashable)

• Mickey Mouse sues Donald Duck. Yes, really. (Hollywood Reporter)

November 19, 2009

• Former Nick prez Albie Hecht readies new IP for iPhone release (New York Times)

• UK retail sales see another rise (Bloomberg)

• Inside China’s CCTV upfront (AdAge)

• New Moon mania hits social media and sees a whopping 81,000 tweets for the upcoming movie (Mashable)

• Behind the scenes at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (io9)

• It’s never game over for Mario as Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Wii gains traction (San Francisco Examiner/AP)

November 18, 2009

• Rich Ross halts Disney’s US$150 million production of Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

• Activision Blizzard says Modern Warfare 2 sets record across entire entertainment industry, not just video games (CNet News)

• Why brands should be willing to redefine themselves to stay relevant (AdAge)

• One opinion on why Electronic Arts will eventually lead the video game industry (SeekingAlpha)

• Twilight books hit one million in sales at Brit retailer Waterstone’s, faster than Harry Potter (London Telegraph)

• What’s harder: Balancing 117 toys on a single Lego block or knocking it down after all is said and done? (Neatorama)

November 17, 2009

• Sports Authority to start selling Nintendo products… (Wall Street Journal)

• …Meanwhile, the American Heart Association says active Wii games may provide actual exercise (Reuters)

• Only two of the top 30 grossing films of the decade are original IPs (SlashFilm)

• Should we teach kids how to Google? (The Atlantic)

• A Q&A with Twilight/New Moon screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg (Los Angeles Times/Hero Complex)

• How to propose to a woman with the world’s largest Pokémon collection (Neatorama)

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