Archive for the ‘games’ Category

Ty Inc Taps Animax

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010


Ty Inc, the makers of the world famous Beanie Babies, has tapped Animax Entertainment to lead development efforts of the Ty Girlz kids brand. In particular Animax is building a free-to-play model into the Ty Girlz girl focused virtual world, developing new content and building in new revenue opportunities through advertising and microtransactions through the sale of virtual goods. The news item got picked up by a few outlets in the social game, virtual world, toy and kid press:

Read the full press release here.

And if you’re a little girl, play for free on Ty Girlz right now!

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Let’s Engage at Toy Fair

Monday, January 11th, 2010


This February NY Toy Fair and the Engage Expo are teaming up to run a conference about the next generation of play. Animax‘s Michael Bellavia is moderating a panel called Adding A Powerful Online Presence To An Existing Offline Brand with executives from Scholastic, Mattel and Hidden City Games.

For anybody attending #EngageExpo in NYC http://bit.ly/M6VoM, here is a discount code “SPEAKERVIP” for $200 off.

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Psychedelic Girls

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009


The Rainbow Brite dolls are coming and with them a bunch of games and a new animated video that Animax produced for Hallmark and Playmates Toys. The fun stuff features Rainbow Brite and all her friends trying to retrieve all the colors of the rainbow.

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Play Free Halloween Games

Friday, October 16th, 2009


It’s October and Halloween is upon us so Animax’s Fun Nugget http://www.funnugget.com celebrates the holiday by adding a bunch of new free games and videos to the site. Have fun and find your favorite trick or treat!

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Fun Nugget Launches

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009


Fun Nugget Officially Launches Today! Animax Entertainment is proud to release this family friendly game and video portal featuring fun nuggets hand picked by the Animax team. The site features fan favorites like our classic Tic Tac Toe game, an updated animated version, and lots more.

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Meet Animax at Engage Expo

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Animax‘s Tucker Aaron is leading a panel at the Engage Expo entitled “Leveraging Virtual Worlds to Engage and Monetize.” The conference itself is all about games, virtual worlds, and social media. If you’re attending let us know and we can meet up.

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New in Social Gaming

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Wow. Forbes went a little deeper on Animax than it did in its article from last week. This week, Sramana Mitra who writes for Forbes covers us on her blog, highlighting our thoughts and work in the a deeper dive on social gaming, viral video, virtual worlds, and MMOs. Check out the new article.

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New Neopets Game

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Animax Entertainment really loves the new game in the Neopets virtual world that just launched. It’s the newest Game Challenge and it’s called Attack of the Slorgs II: Slorgs in Space! Ready, aim, splat away as each level gets more difficult.

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Tuttles Charity Game Goes Live!

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007


Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, Legacy Interactive and Animax Entertainment today launched The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures: Starlight Starbright Charity Challenge (www.tuttlesfamilygame.com), a casual platformer style downloadable videogame that pairs having a good time with doing good. Call it ‘funraising.’ Animax wrote the script and directed the celebrity voice actors and helped conceive and create the game and animations. Actors William Shatner, Bob Saget, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ashley Tisdale, Dominic Scott Kay, Dave Coulier and Animax’s very own Dave Thomas contributed their voices to the animated game.

Supporters can try the game at www.tuttlesfamilygame.com and purchase it for $19.99 with $15 of that amount coming back to Starlight to brighten the lives of seriously ill children and their families.

Read the official press release here.

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Keep Oceans Clean Game

Monday, June 4th, 2007


There’s a new kids game on the Keep Oceans Clean site for The Ad Council. Animax Entertainment designed the original site and produced this game that rewards kids for cleaning up the ocean. Navigate your diver as she swims around the ocean picking up trash and trying to clean up the mess.

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