With the toys-to-life genre, the model has usually been one way. If you look at Skylanders orDisney Infinity, players have figurines and they put them on a reader of some sort and that instantly ...

When the toys-to-life genre was established, the formula worked just one way. The action figure would be inanimate and when placed on a reader, it would spring to life. The toy would be a bridge to ...

Anki Overdrive combines the nostaligic toy race car fun of Hot Wheels with the smartphone control and artificial intelligence of Sphero. It's fun, really fun, but not without a few wrong turns. you ...

I was a Hot Wheels kid, but secretly, I pined for slot cars. Buzzing with current and fast as hell, slot car sets made by companies like Tyco and Aurora made my manually powered die-cast trinkets look ...

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. Anki, whose racing game powered by artificial intelligence has seen surprising success, is announcing the sequel today ...

A few years ago, robotics company Anki released its Anki Drive, a cutting-edge game that pit robot racing cars against one another, and with users controlling their vehicles through their smartphones.

Toy cars are cool; toy cars you can control with your smartphone are even cooler. That's been the idea behind Anki Drive, a digital-physical hybrid car game that lets you race and upgrade plastic ...

When the toys-to-life genre was established, the formula worked just one way. The action figure would be inanimate and when placed on a reader, it would spring to life. The toy would be a bridge to ...