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Skylanders is a toys-to-life action-adventure video game franchise published by Activision. [1] [2] Skylanders games are played by placing a character's figure on the "Portal of Power", a device that reads its tag using NFC and "imports" them into the game as a playable character, leveling them up and saving its progress on the figure to potentially be used on a different game or video game ...
Toys-to-life is a video game feature using physical figurines or action figures to interact within the game. [1] These toys use a near field communication (NFC), radio frequency identification (RFID), or image recognition data protocol to determine the individual figurine's proximity, and save a player's progress data to a storage medium located within that piece. [2]
Toys for Bob, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Novato, California.It was founded in 1989 by Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford and is best known for creating Star Control and the Skylanders franchise, as well as for working on the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro franchises.
Skylanders: Imaginators is a 2016 toys-to-life 3D platform game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision. It is the sixth installment of the Skylanders series, a successor to Skylanders: SuperChargers , and was released for Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , Wii U , Xbox 360 and Xbox One .
Not to be outdone by Disney Infinity, Activision made an announcement today that shows they still have a few tricks up their sleeve. Being featured February 10-13 at Toy Fair 2013 in New York City ...
In 2011, Activision Blizzard debuted its Skylanders franchise, [37] which led to the press crediting the company with inventing and popularizing a new toys-to-life category. [37] [38] [39] The first release Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure was nominated for two Toy Industry Association awards in 2011: "Game of the Year" and "Innovative Toy of the ...
Over 30,000,000 Skylanders toys have been sold worldwide. Toy sales from the first game were twice to 3 times higher than Activision had originally expected, prompting the making of a sequel. [36] As of December 2012, the Skylanders franchise sold more than $500 million in retail sales in the U.S., inclusive of accessory packs and figures. In ...
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