July 15, 2009

• Not too hot to shop – heatwave boosts UK retail sales in June (London Telegraph)

• JC Penney targets teens with new website for the back-to-school season (Reuters)

• Who you gonna call? Maybe this eBay seller of the Ecto-1 (BoingBoing)

• Sims creator Will Wright on educational gaming (Kotaku)

• Pottermania strikes again (L.A. Times)

July 14, 2009

• What can tween girls learn from the vidgames that are being targeted to them? (Wired/GameLife)

• Let Pottermania begin again – sixth installment debuts tonight, advance tickets already selling out (Bloomberg)

• Twitter sees 20 million US visitors in June (TechCrunch)

• On the co-reading experience of Twilight (Christian Science Monitor)

July 13, 2009

• Box office hits bring retail relief, as Transformers toys expected to rake in US$600 million (L.A. Times)

• Excitement, not protest, surrounds India’s first Walmart (Washington Post)

• It’s Harry Potter vs. Twilight in the fight for the teen audience (Wall Street Journal)

• Success of Disney/Pixar’s Up renews investor confidence (New York Times)

• MGA switches lawyer again as it preps appeal in Bratz battle (Law.com)

• On the success – and failures – of celebrity clothing lines (Pittsburg Live)

• Check out Zubbles, the world’s first stainless colored bubbles (Gizmodo)

July 10, 2009

• It’s Christmas in July at Sears (Chicago Tribune)

• Retailers wary about back-to-school season thanks to disappointing June sales (Wall Street Journal)

• New parents turn to secondhand shops and hand-me-downs for baby (New York Times)

• Disney’s Beauty and the Beast gets 3-D treatment in 2010, to be featured at Comic-Con (MTV/Movies Blog)

• Nintendo prez and COO talks success, strategy and the new Vitality Sensor (Fast Company)

July 9, 2009

• Not every big-media head honcho agrees with Disney’s Bob Iger that people will pay to view content online (L.A. Times)

• Hasbro’s merch sales for Transformers 2 already surpassing 2007’s lineup by as much as 25% (Wall Street Journal)

• Hot Topic’s June same-store Q2 sales take a larger-than-expected dip

• Hayao Miyazaki, the Walt Disney of Japan, to be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at Comic-Con (New York Times)

• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon on the wilderness of childhood: Are kids getting enough real-life adventure to feed their imaginations? (New York Review of Books)

• How a Marvel Comics artist pours soul into his art (Wired/Underwire)

July 8, 2009

• Never underestimate the power of the teen mall shopper (Supermarket Guru)

• Parents to increase spending in kids sports and outdoor products for upcoming back-to-school season (SportsOne Source)

• Disney greenlights Camp Rock 2

• Watch out for those 3-D dinos running rampant through Japan (Gizmodo)

• Now you know why it took three months to finish two seconds of Transformers 2 (Gizmodo)

• Warner Bros. and Microsoft UK strike major digital ad deal for upcoming Potter flick (The Guardian)

• Whatever happened to Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson? (BoingBoing)

July 7, 2009

• What are this year’s top 100 retail power players in the States? (Stores.org)

• Nintendo-published games top the UK vidgame charts (Gamasutra)

• New patent infringement law targets Apple, Sony and Nintendo (Wall Street Journal)

• View-Master: The Movie? (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Jakks Pacific and THQ stay in the ring for the WWE battle (TheDeal.com)

• What click-through rate can you get from Twitter? (Mashable)

• Video games start showing up more in Hollywood movie trailers? (Kotaku)

July 6, 2009

• A look at the toy duo behind successful products from the House of Mouse (BusinessWeek)

• Kids’ apparel performs stronger than most other categories (Women’s Wear Daily News)

• What are the best kids books ever? (New York Times)

• Used vidgame market sees uptick with consumers looking for more value, cheaper prices (L.A. Times)

• Sony files patent on using ordinary objects as motion controllers (BoingBoing Gadgets)

• Dance Dance Revolution: the alarm clock (Gizmodo)

• When Dali and Disney collided and collaborated in 1946 – for real (Monsters & Rockets)

July 3, 2009

• Four-year-old toyco Zizzle to auction off assets (Chicago Business)

• Mattel won’t renew Neil Friedman’s contract and two other top execs in 2011 and 2012, but expects to extend their employment (ADVFN/Dow Jones)

• Exploring the magic of EA’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince vidgame (USA Today)

• On being a gamer geek – a board game geek, that is (Wired/GeekDad)

• Who needs artistic ability when a robot can do it for you? (Gizmodo)

July 2, 2009

• QSR biggies – McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut – halt food advertising to kids down under, but premiums and toys with food not banned (Australian Business)

• Nintendo to get its own show on UK broadcaster Five (MCVUK)

• Are boys genetically programmed to pick Bob the Builder over Barbie? (Daily Mail)

• Two weeks away from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and tickets are already selling (Bloomberg)

• Amazon expands its private-label brand (Wall Street Journal)

• Scientific America also on board the ‘video games are good for the brain’ train (BoingBoing)

• The PG-13 rating celebrates its silver anniversary (Wired/GeekDad)

• The Little Mermaid to close on Broadway, preps for national tour in 2010 and overseas productions (Associated Press)

• And now, Hello Kitty has her own castle (Neatorama)

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