• UK retail sales see sharp drop (Wall Street Journal)
• In case you missed it, the first trailer for Where The Wild Things Are is out (MTV Movies Blog)
• Did this German create the perfect board game? (Wired)
• A look at DreamWorks’ and Pixar’s films (Examiner)
• Confessions of a toy snob (Dallas Morning News)
• Face-mapping a potential new feature for upcoming Nintendo DSi games (Gizmodo/Kotaku)
• Ever heard the Star Wars Cantina theme on the harp before? (Neatorama)
• Nickelodeon unveils the look of its new Shockwave games portal (CasualGaming.biz)
• Analysts predict that some Brit retailers may not be able to afford rent… (Wall Street Journal)
• …while the high street and UK shopping malls continue seeing sales declines (The Guardian)
• What’s going to happen when the top brass at Warner Bros. step down in 2011? (L.A. Times)
• A look at Disney’s mark-ups across the board (Motley Fool)
• Blockbuster teams up with TiVO to download movies (Wired)
• Thai firefighter dons Spidey suit to save boy from fire (Sydney Morning Herald)
• A look at the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are (USA Today)
• Ads + internet = epic fail (TechCrunch)
• Game Developers Conference is more important than ever (CNet News)
• With the iPhone picking up speed, Nintendo and Sony push game downloads… (Wired/GameLife)
• …as this survey finds that the iPhone has the biggest potential for games (VentureBeat)
• Would you have bought this Atomic Energy Lab for your kids in the 1950s? (Boing Boing)
• And the winner of the Harry Potter versus Twilight debate is… (Christian Science Monitor)
• Toy orders on the decline in China… (Business Week)
• …yet US toy sales are seeing some upturns at retail (Toy Directory)
• Barnes & Noble to boost digital content and bolster flagging web sales (Internet Retailer)
• Walmart names Jakks Pacific its vendor of the year… (Trigger News)
• …and Monopoly is named Australia’s Toy of the Year (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Disney Pixar’s Up marks the first 3-D film to open the Festival de Cannes (The Hollywood Reporter)
• FAO gets new CEO (Associated Press)
• Barnes & Noble sales decline continues (Associated Press)
Consumers still shopping at malls, says Simon chairman (Retail Wire)
• Is Sony Computer Entertainment working on a robot peripheral? (Kotaku)
• Translating Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to the video game world (Video Gamer)
• Walmart Canada slashes prices during March Break (Reuters)
• Teen retailers The Buckle and Hot Topic show strong performance (Inside Bay Area/AP)
• Namco Bandai acquires 95% stake in D3Publisher (Gamasutra)
• Disney puts a hold on expanding its Hong Kong theme park (Bloomberg)
• Would you buy your child a chalk gun? (Gizmodo)
• Libraries get hit by the CPSC warning about lead in kids books (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Wuthering Heights sees book sales spike, thanks to…Twilight? (The Guardian)
• Why kids and moms come first in advertising during economic downturns (New York Times)
• Nickelodeon and Mattel clear up misconceptions about new tween Dora (Associated Press)
• Solving the problem of in-game advertising (CNet)
• With Circuit City gone, Best Buy gears up to tackle competition from Walmart (Wall Street Journal)
• The evolution of the lowly barcode to hold videos and games (Gizmodo)
• Aeropostale sets sights on younger consumers with kids line (MSNBC/Motley Fool)
• Happy St. Paddy’s Day! Kids get creative with geeky school leprechaun traps (Wired/GeekDad)
• Mattel versus MGA – the battle continues (L.A. Business Journal)
• Is Teen.com poised to become the next MTV.com?
• Comcast and Sony join forces to form bricks-and-mortar retail store (Associated Press)
• New Batman collector’s edition game title to come with bonus DVD, Batarang (Kotaku)
• Race to Witch Mountain tops the box office on opening weekend (Bloomberg)
• Teen retailers pare down concept stores to focus on main brand (Wall Street Journal)
• Twitter driving more and more traffic to social and entertainment sites (MediaPost)
• With softer retail decline, could the economic slowdown be easing up a touch? (New York Times)
• How classic children’s books reinforce good parenting (CNN International)
• Harry Potter and The Disappointed Fans with The Sixth Movie (The Guardian)
• Namco Bandai’s president on strategies for the future of gaming (Washington Post)
• Hilarious outtakes of an encounter between Elmo and Ricky Gervais (Huffington Post)
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