There’s a whole new world launching today. It’s Kidlandia, a world that your kids build online and then turn into a souvenir high-quality printed map. Meant for parents and kids to use in tandem, the map becomes the catalyst for storytelling.

This holiday season is shaping up to be a practical, penny-pinching one for digital toymakers. While digital toys continue to be a growing part of the toy market, this year’s advances will be incremental, not revolutionary. And toymakers seem to be focused on the “little grownup” strategy, giving kids a scaled down version of mommy [...]

The Hidden Park throws the whole techno-kitchen sink into creating an extraordinary scavenger/treasure hunt for kids. Clues about where to go for more clues are location-based and use GPS mapping. The game knows where you are and can serve up the right information. The phone’s built-in camera documents the landmarks (and you as the explorer) [...]

In the old days (just last week), before Nintendo’s new portable game console, the DSi, was available, portable game consoles were for kids with good eyesight, fast reflexes, and too much time on their hands. The DSi, the next generation of Nintendo’s DS, is going to shake things up by changing the nature of the [...]

Mario and Sonic are Olympians with a pretty impressive track record. Separately, Mario plays for the Nintendo team and Sonic plays for Sega. But when they join forces, whoa, stand back. They teamed up in Beijing to star in Mario and Sonic at the Summer Olympics and managed to sell over 10 million games as [...]

If organic food is better for the body, then what’s organic media? Chopped liver?
That’s the question that Amy Tucker, CEO of Matter Group and founder of a new kid’s multimedia property called Xeko, posed at a recent meeting of Women in Children’s Media where the subject was “green” media.
Xeko challenges kids to “Be a Force [...]

There are 18 million boys playing online but you wouldn’t know it based on the entertainment offered by the big toy companies. Disney hopes to show boys some love by launching a website and cable TV channel that’s a departure from its more recent online worlds which have been populated by fairies and [...]

“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” —Walt Disney
For a child, today’s play is tomorrow’s work. Whether it’s playing with a toy doctor kit, a tea set, a digital camera and editing software, or inside of a virtual world, the skills they’ll need tomorrow are being honed.
But their skills will only be [...]

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas just ended. One of newest focuses of this huge electronics show is looking at the next generation of digital consumers—kids. According to toy industry data, the fastest, and almost the only, growing segment of the kids’ toy market is for digital toys.
We’ll be looking at some of [...]

Our Kids at Play speakers and exhibitors have been mighty busy. And not just readying themselves for CES–there’s a lifetime of events before we even get to Vegas.