Rainbow Brite Launches

Rainbow Brite gets a fantastic new makeover from Hallmark. First introduced 25 years ago, Rainbow Brite and her friends are ready to meet and entertain a whole new generation of girls. A new site launched with games and a new animated video featuring her updated look. Animax Entertainment created the animated video, "Return to Rainbow Land," for Hallmark.

And stay tuned because a big, new game called "Rainbow Rescue" is set to launch this Fall. It will bundled with the upcoming Rainbow Brite doll! Rainbow Rescue is a fun meta-game with a bunch of colorful mini-games where you help Rainbow Brite and her friends solve puzzles to find all the colors of the rainbow.

Another Nick Game of the Week

Animax Entertainment produced another Game of the Week for Nickelodeon. This time it was for the show "True Jackson, VP" In Fashion Fury, a Diner Dash like free game for kids on nick.com, you have to help True create lots of different fashions as fast as you can.

Previously we made a game called Battle for the Barn! for Nick's TV show "Back at the Barnyard."

Little Pim iPhone App

Animax Entertainment announced a new preschool targeted iPhone app that we have in development with the folks over at Little Pim. Created in 2006 by Julia Pimsleur Levine, Little Pim is an award-winning foreign language immersion series for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. And yes - that name probably sounds familiar -- Julia Pimseleur Levine's father, Dr. Paul Pimsleur, created one of the most popular and acclaimed audio teaching language methods for adults. The iPhone app Animax is developing will expand on the DVD series and take advantage of the mobile platform. Kids on cellphones? A "pacifier app"? The future is now.

The news was picked up by our friends at Kidscreen Cynopsis Kids and Home Media Magazine.

Neopets Berry Blast

Neopets just launched a new multiplayer Mini-Game in KeyQuest called Berry Blast. Blast those berries to win a prize!

Nick Game of the Week

Nickelodeon launched Battle for the Barn, its latest Game of the Week. Add aliens, spaceships, radioactive waste, eye-lasers and monster size versions of your favorite Barnyard characters into the mix and you have a fun online game all wrapped in fun classic B-movie style. Play it now on Nick.com.

Seattle Casual Connect

Animax is a Bronze Sponsor of the upcoming Casual Connect Seattle 2008 event. So if you are looking for a development house to work with to produce casual games, virtual worlds or MMOs, look no further than Animax. Please contact us to set up a meeting.

First-Ever Original Fundraising Videogame

Animax leads the charge on another first. Who said video games are bad for kids? We've been creative lead on the first ever downloadable casual game that doubles as a fundraiser for our all-time favorite client: Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation. Here's more from the press release...

Starlight Starbright Produces First-ever Original Fundraising Videogame: The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures

Expected to Launch 4Q, Starlight Starbright's Charity Challenge Breaks New Fundraising Ground to Benefit its Seriously Ill Children and Family Members

Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation® is pleased to announce the development of The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures: Starlight Starbright Charity Challenge, a casual videogame that pairs having a good time with doing good. A first-of-its-kind fundraising initiative, Starlight has partnered with Legacy Interactive®, a leader in games for the mass market, on the game's development and publishing.

Dave Thomas and his comedy team at Emmy Award-winning studio, Animax Entertainment, developed the game's original script and characters. In 4Q 2007, Starlight will invite people from around the world to play the game and help lift the spirits of seriously ill children and their families in this novel way.

"The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures is a high-quality, engaging game that stands out among other casual games on the market," said Ariella Lehrer, President of Legacy Interactive. "The experience that we have created for the benefit of Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation is truly unique." Click here to read the full press release.

Play Our Tic-Tac-Toe Game

Um - all of a sudden someone is driving a ton of traffic to our TicTacToe game and we're not sure who. All we know is that the free game has gone from about 100 visits a day to about 20,000 a day! That's nuts. Our version of tic-tac-toe is a hybrid in that you have to answer a trivia question to earn a move - in that way it's a bit lie Hollywood Squares minus Paul Lynde in the center square.

Camera Phone Darts

A mobile game we designed for GoSub60 will be launching soon. Motion-sensing technology uses your cellphone's camera to bring the real world movement of the handset into gameplay. It's actually a new kind of gameplay on your phone and will let multiple people play darts against each other.