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Hulu Kids Offers 43 Shows for the Family
U.S. kids have a new children’s programming platform this week as Hulu debuts its kids and families portal Hulu Kids (www.hulu.com/kids) in its Hulu Plus subscription section. At launch, the Hulu Kids section features 43 shows—including commercial-free series episodes from Nickelodeon as well as series from PBS and Lionsgate. Hulu [...]
ToyTalk Introduces Innovative New Toy App
Teddy Ruxpin, eat your heart out! New family entertainment company ToyTalk, which is formed by CEO Oren Jacob, CTO Marin Reddy and CCO Bobby Podesta—all former Pixar employees, has debuted a 45-second trailer for its first app. Using artificial intelligence to give voice to kids’ toys such as teddy bears [...]
Autodesk Releases ‘Starforce Battlement’ Mobile Game
Autodesk has announced the release of Starforce Battlement, a new 2D mobile tower defense game developed by the Autodesk Gameware team using the Autodesk Scaleform Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK) and Autodesk 3ds Max software. Starforce Battlement is billed as an engrossing mobile experience that demonstrates the latest capabilities of the Scaleform Mobile [...]
Sesame Street Launches Elmo Story Collection App
Sesame Workshop and Impelsys today announced the launch of the Sesame Street Elmo Story Collection App for iPad. The newly released app includes six popular Elmo titles, including three audio ebooks, two of which are exclusive to the app. The Elmo Story Collection consists of the following titles: Tickle Me, [...]
SVoD Kidobi Invites Mondo TV to Play
Italy’s Mondo TV has partnered with Kidobi to distribute several preschool series in North America on the youngster-targeted SVoD platform. Bug’s Adventures (13×13), Jurassic Cubs (26×13), Toy Toons (26×13) and Turtle Hero (26×26) will become available in the coming weeks on Kodobi.com as well as the platform’s mobile apps for [...]
Toon Goggles: Smooth Streaming Ahead
Los Angeles-based Toon Goggles continues to build its children’s animation library and expanding its global multiplatform reach. It seems that for the past few months, online kids platform Toon Goggles has been snapping up new partners and expanding its tablet reach almost every week. A few weeks ago, the Los [...]
Frankenweenie Guests on ‘Where’s My Water’ Game
Disney has launched “10 Days of Frankenweenie,” a new, free level pack for its hit mobile game Where’s My Water? Free. Inspired by Disney’s stop-motion animated film Frankenweenie, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Tim Burton, the level pack features new black and white levels that combine the film’s retro look and feel [...]
PBS Kids Offers New ‘Daniel Tiger’ App
PBS Kids is getting kids ready for the premiere of its new animated series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood on September 3 with the launch of a new tie-in app. Created for iOS devices (the app is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch) and aims at kids age two to four. [...]
Toon Goggles’ Mobile App Goes Global
Online kids channel Toon Goggles (www.toongoggles.com) is expanding its global reach with the launch of its mobile iOS app worldwide, now being available for download worldwide. The announcement was made by Stephen L. Hodge, Managing Director, Toon Goggles. The Toon Goggles mobile app gives international viewers easy access to the [...]
Cartoon Network Launches Watch-Play iOS App
Cartoon Network has released a new app for iOS that allows viewers to watch episodes of their favorite CN series and play games at the same time. CN 2.0, now available on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, includes all the features and content from the original video app, plus exclusive games [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
