Noteworthy: Sofa Boy

Langteau has just published a children’s book called “Sofa Boy,” which tells the story of a kid who spends too much time sitting on the couch with controller clutched in hand and the rather dire consequences that follow.
It’s a fairy tale plucked straight from Langteau’s own experiences as a lad with a fondness for video [...]

A Call for Ad Change

It wasn’t too many months ago that saying online advertising would decline in 2009 was enough to get you laughed at in the blogosphere, mocked on Twitter, and have Eric Schmidt roll his eyes and explain, again, why Google ads were such a better value than traditional media.
Flash forward to this week and the Interactive [...]

Noteworthy: FusionFall Wrap Report

The Project
FusionFall is a high-quality, browser-based MMOG that takes place in a re-imagined Cartoon Network universe. It is the ultimate crossover, with characters from classic shows like Dexter’s Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls and more recent ones like Ben 10 Alien Force.
we knew we wanted to build a game that was as universally loved [...]

Addicted to it…all!

Okay… gotta say it.  I’m officially addicted to twitter in the most unhealthy of ways.  Tweetdeck – braziliant, and it makes twitter actually functional.  I’m not sure how I’ll work the phone into the twitter-obsession… time will tell (and if i find something easy/organic enough to NOT steal minutes or become annoying to open/close).
I’ve been [...]

Chaotic continues on the Multiplatform Approach

Online, Chaotic has surpassed Magic’s popularity, according to figures provided by each. Magic the Gathering has 150,000 registered players, its website says, while 4Kids Entertainment executives say the Chaotic website, www.chaoticgame.com, had attracted 1.25 million registered players since its launch.
Bryan Gannon, chief executive of Chaotic USA Entertainment Group, a San Diego technology development company that [...]

Keeping an Eye from a far

Symantec launched Norton Online Family in a free public beta, a new, web-based internet safety service designed to give parents tools to monitor their kids’ online lives by fostering communication. Rather than operate in “stealth mode,” the system’s search monitoring and reporting service facilitates feedback from and communication with the kids whose activity it is [...]

Are You Going?

Hey!  It’s Virtual World Awesomeness – check out Engage! Expo (fyi, it is the newly renamed Virtual Worlds Conference) by the folks who bring us the Virtual World News.
I’m absolutely stoked to be able to say I’m a part of the following panel (and check out the awesome title, lol):
It’s The Activity, Stupid: Keeping Kids [...]

Noteworthy: Twestival

Okay…. So, I admitted to my work-based obsession with phones & family-app-usage. I’m also shamefully obsessed with Twitter and my constant curiousness of why it’s not really caught on with teens & tweens.
Sure, sure – DEAR LORD, what am I asking? Another social network of pure, unfiltered commentary from safety-ignorant youth (en masse)??? [...]

I’m stuck on the Phone…

Not really “stuck” per say… but I’m stubbornly fixated on cell phones at the 3 – 9 year old audience… namely 4 & 5 year olds.
More and more, I go into restaurants & shops and see kids manhandling their parents’ phones while the parent is conversing elsewhere.  And as I stroll through the apps app [...]

Heads Up: Webosaurs!

REEL FX ENTERTAINMENT UNLEASHES WEBOSAURS™
-New T-Rex-sized, Fully-Immersive Virtual World Scheduled for Spring 2009 Launch-
DALLAS, TX/ February 11th, 2009 – Reel FX Entertainment today announces the launch of its first virtual world – Webosaurs (www.webosaurs.com). Launching Spring 2009, the brave new world boasts customizable 3D dinosaur avatars, a game-filled [...]