March 10, 2021
How Music and Brick Building Come Together in LEGO VIDIYO
LEGO® VIDIYO™ was born of a desire to mash together the endlessly creative possibilities engendered by the LEGO brick with the equally…
Category: LEGO Group
March 3, 2021
LEGO Universe: Death of a Dream
LEGO® Universe launched after five years of development but was turned off less than two years after going live. The $125 million investment…
February 24, 2021
Exploring the soundscape of LEGO Universe
When LEGO® Universe died in 2012, it didn’t just shut off access to the imagined worlds of Avant Gardens, Gnarled Forest, and Forbidden…
February 17, 2021
The Rise and Fall of LEGO Universe: Inception
The LEGO Group’s biggest single investment in a video game cost more than $125 million and involved more than 450 contributors…
February 10, 2021
How Sonic Mania Was Turned Into a LEGO Set
Sam Johnson’s first reaction when he saw that the LEGO Group may be designing a new set based on SEGA’s® beloved Sonic…
February 3, 2021
How Harry Potter and an amazing demo led to LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
“When the team shared with me that very first LEGO® Star Wars™ demo, that’s probably the seminal key moment in my career.…
January 27, 2021
LEGO Minifigures Don’t Have Knees
The LEGO® minifigure plays an enormous role in just about every LEGO video game created, but it turns out the video games…
January 20, 2021
LEGO Friends and Gendered Play
LEGO® Friends stands as one of the LEGO Group’s most successful themes to date. The construction toys theme was designed primarily…
January 13, 2021
The Builders’ Journeys
A personal journey of discovery and family values underlies the power and poignancy of LEGO® Builder’s Journey. Released on Apple Arcade in…
December 30, 2020
LEGO Island: Birth of a LEGO Video Game
It may not have been the first LEGO® video game, but it was arguably the most impactful. LEGO Island released in September 1997…