• Disney, NBCU and Hearst in talks to create a JV channel (L.A. Times)
• Who had the best E3 report card? (Wired/GeekDad)
• …and why the analysts are giving high marks to this year’s convention (GameSpot)
• US retail sales take a hit in May (New York Times)
• Has the Twilight merch momentum slowed down for Hot Topic? (Wall Street Journal)
• What Apple needs to do to gain a strong foothold in the games market (Motley Fool/Caps)
• Miley gets her own fashion line at Walmart (Business Week)
• It looks like camera controls are the next big thing in video games… (Wired/GameLife)
• …and GeekDad’s top 10 list of things that kids will want from E3 (Wired/GeekDad)
• How do you get the cautious spenders to open their wallets? (New York Times)
• Big animation players pave the way for the smaller indies in the film industry (New York Times)
• MTV sues kids cell phone service Kajeet over Nickelodeon content deal (Bloomberg)
• MGA files emergency appeal in Bratz case (Reuters)
• Mega Brands regroups to take on Lego for older kid consumers with Halo line (Globe and Mail)
• US retail sales see slight uptick in past week (United Press International)
• Nintendo looks to expand Wii library, on the hunt for third-party publishers (Wall Street Journal)
• Check out these kid-created monster movies made between 1950 and 1980 (BoingBoing)
• Ten awesome moments from Sesame Street. LadyBugs’ picnic, anyone? (Jezebel)
• Walmart reducing toy space by more than half? (Toy Directory)
• Disney hopes to take off with Up on opening weekend (Wall Street Journal)
• Are the Jonas Brothers more than just pop stars? (New York Times)
• Why one author wants to bring violent images to children’s books (BBC)
• Movie-based vidgames look to up the ante on gameplay and game quality (Hartford Courant/AP)
• The recession turns US shopping malls into ghost towns (Wall Street Journal)
• On the hunt for the next book-cum-blockbuster film in the post-Potter era (L.A. Times)
• A successor to Woolworths on the way? (Scotsman.com)
• Is the princess fantasy conveying the wrong message to young girls? (MSNBC/AP)
• Why the vidgame industry is releasing more titles this summer (USA Today)
• What to do when a company’s ad-based model for making money isn’t enough (TechCrunch)
• How Waybuloo teaches emotional intelligence to toddlers (BBC)
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