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Title: Lightseekers enhances toys-to-life gaming, but the toys are the coolest part Post by: HCK on July 10, 2017, 04:05:13 pm Lightseekers enhances toys-to-life gaming, but the toys are the coolest part
<article> <section class="page"> <p>After a few years of fevered popularity, the toys-to-life genre is seemingly at a lull. Activision’s huge Skylanders franchise (http://www.macworld.com/article/3016833/home-tech/apple-tv-toys-to-life-disney-infinity-3-0-vs-skylanders-superchargers.html) is taking a year off after several annual entries and more than 300 different connected figurines, while Disney Infinity (http://www.macworld.com/article/3016833/home-tech/apple-tv-toys-to-life-disney-infinity-3-0-vs-skylanders-superchargers.html) closed up shop last year despite its intriguing mix of Disney, Pixar, and Star Wars worlds and characters.</p><p>But maybe the issue was the toys themselves: the little plastic statuettes may have looked cool, but they were mostly inanimate vessels for transporting characters into games. Lightseekers (https://www.lightseekers.com/) is trying to do something a lot more lavish with its new experience, which builds upon the foundation of those earlier entries while putting a lot more “action” into the figures.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3203366/ios/lightseekers-toys-to-life-gaming-ios-android.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Lightseekers enhances toys-to-life gaming, but the toys are the coolest part (http://www.macworld.com/article/3203366/ios/lightseekers-toys-to-life-gaming-ios-android.html#tk.rss_all) |