March 24, 2021
Inside the LEGO Group’s Secretive Strategic Product Unit Darwin
The LEGO Group’s biggest early exploration into the digitization of the brick was started by a group of friends and…
Category: Video Games
March 17, 2021
Overwatch’s Unusual Journey From Esport to LEGO Set
It may surprise you to learn how few video games have made the leap to physical LEGO® theme sets. Despite the…
March 15, 2021
Sackboy: A Big Adventure remains cute as a button in next-gen
Last fall, the button-eyed Sackboy made the leap to 3D platformer as well as a next-gen platform with the release…
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…
March 7, 2021
Jimmy the Greek and Handheld Gaming
Jimmy George Snyder Sr., better known as Jimmy the Greek, is not the sort of person you might connect with…
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 27, 2021
Digi Casse, Game Kid and the LCD Game Catridge
In the beignning there was Mattel Football, and it was good. Technically, that’s not really true. The first handheld is…
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 21, 2021
Before the Game Boy There Was the Game Pocket Computer
Five or so years before the Game Boy blew everyone’s collective socks off, there was a slew of attempts to…
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…