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Mattel163 Limited is a 50–50 joint venture between American toy manufacturing and entertainment company Mattel and Chinese Internet company NetEase, aimed for developing and publishing online video games based on the former's intellectual properties. [2] Its headquarters are located in both Hangzhou, China and El Segundo, California. The "163 ...
Mattel sold both Mattel Interactive and The Learning Company in 2000 at a loss to Gores Technology Group. The total financial losses to Mattel have been estimated to be as high as $3.6 billion. [6] Mattel's acquisition of The Learning Company has been referred to as "one of the worst acquisitions of all time" by several prominent business journals.
The company announced Tuesday that by the end of 2024, 80% of its global game portfolio will be colorblind accessible before hitting 90% in 2025. ... Mattel said its games division will donate ...
Businessman Harold "Matt" Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Elliot and Ruth Handler founded Mattel as Mattel Creations in January 1945 in a garage in Los Angeles. [15] [16] The company name chosen is a portmanteau of the surname of Matson and first name of Elliot, with former chairman and CEO Bob Eckert revealing at a 2013 Christmas Day Peninsula Seniors lecture that the founders ...
In the early 1980s, Mattel's Intellivision video game console was a direct competitor to Atari's Video Computer System (VCS), better known as the Atari 2600. Although Mattel designed and produced video game cartridges for their own system, the company surprised the industry by also releasing simplified versions of its games for the 2600 under the M Network label.
Four Horsemen Studios is a collectible figure design studio and manufacturer, specializing in creating sculptures of toys and action figures. The company was founded in the late 1990s as a contractor to Mattel, and have since grown to an independent studio creating their own lines of figures as well as manufacturing third party designs under license.
A TV show based on the Mattel game Pictionary is heading to the U.K. “Pictionary” is set to debut at the end of this year on public service broadcaster ITV with a Christmas special followed by ...