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LEGO® FUSION
NEW YORK, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - LEGO Systems, Inc., makers of the worlds
leading construction toys, today introduced LEGO® FUSION, a play experience that
combines traditional LEGO brick play with familiar app-based game themes. LEGO
FUSION leverages new technologies and childrens fascination with them, to
create an entirely new way to engage in LEGO brick building and app game play
for children ages 7 and up. Available later this summer, the LEGO FUSION
collection will include four distinct titles: LEGO FUSION Town Master, LEGO
FUSION Battle Towers, LEGO FUSION Create & Race and LEGO FUSION Resort Designer.
Each LEGO FUSION experience consists of a distinct set of LEGO bricks, a
corresponding free downloadable app and the new FUSION capture plate, a small
brick building plate with a printed design that enables a smart phone or
tablets camera to identify the size and colors of the LEGO bricks built onto
it. In response to game prompts, children build vertically in 2-D on the FUSION
capture plate, enabling the app to see, import and transform the creation into
3-D in the digital world.
Children have always imagined their LEGO creations as immersive worlds which
come to life for hours of role-play and adventure, said Ditte Bruun Pedersen,
senior design manager, LEGO Future Lab. Recently, smart phones and tablets have
become a popular platform for empowering game mechanisms that kids love. LEGO
FUSION brings these two favorite play patterns together in an experience where
real-life LEGO builds come to life in a virtual game, inspiring creativity,
strategy, and the pride of creation.
To Win, Step Away from the Screen
Once a childs creation has been imported into the game, a series of challenges
and interactions requires that players turn away from the device and return to
the real world to use their LEGO bricks to build new solutions in order to move
game play forward. Each game encourages this back-and-forth between physical and
virtual, keeping children engaged in both worlds.
In our research, we heard repeatedly from parents that they are constantly
battling zombie gaze, the experience when their children are immersed in their
device screens for large blocks of time, said Pedersen. We developed LEGO
FUSION with this challenge in mind, creating a play experience that keeps
children entertained with the kind of app gameplay they love while giving real
reasons to return to the brick pile to creatively build.
Each LEGO FUSION product offers a distinct play experience. The four products
launching this year are:
LEGO FUSION Town Master
In this simulation game, players create and rule their own LEGO town, first by
building it with LEGO bricks, then by capturing it and importing it to the game.
Children build everything from houses to a pizzeria, fire station and bike shop
while completing errands and missions like catching robbers, fighting fires and
skateboarding. To keep the minifigure citizens happy, players solve problems
through physical building and earn points to gain access to more structures, and
even run additional towns.
LEGO FUSION Battle Towers
Players build a tower and defend it against attack so they can rule the kingdom.
First, players design the Battle Towers with real LEGO pieces, then capture them
and import them to the game. Next, players choose tower defenders like wizards
and archers and battle against evil warriors, skeleton armies, and more. If a
tower is damaged in battle, players can repair the damage with a timed build
with the games real LEGO bricks.
LEGO FUSION Create & Race
In this racing game, players get behind the wheel and virtually drive the cars
that they create with real LEGO bricks. Once a custom vehicle is digitally
designed, physically built, and imported to the game, it can be optimized for
success in racing, demolition or stunts. Players learn that every brick shape
and color on the vehicle matters for performance. Three themed courses offer
endless challenges unlocked by physical LEGO builds, and children can even ghost
race against friends to top the leaderboard.
LEGO FUSION Resort Designer
Players help the LEGO Friends design new vacation houses, shops and activities
for Ambersands Beach. After building 2-D facades, capturing them and importing
them to the game, players can design the interiors of 3-D digital structures,
such as an aquarium, surf shop and beach houses. Children can unlock new levels
and build more resorts by completing missions like rescuing dolphins, riding
horses, surfing and other resort activities.
Beginning in September, LEGO FUSION will incorporate the ability for players to
access their digital LEGO creations and game play anywhere. Using their LEGO ID,
players can sign in on any compatible device and access their gallery and game
play from within the LEGO FUSION app.
Developed by TT Games, makers of the best-selling LEGO video game franchise, the
LEGO FUSION Town Master, Battle Towers, Create & Race, and Resort Designer app
games are free for download from the Apple, Google or Samsung App Store for
Apple iOS and Android.
LEGO FUSION Town Master, LEGO FUSION Battle Towers, and LEGO FUSION Create &
Race will launch in August 2014; LEGO FUSION Resort Designer will launch in
September 2014. Each will be available for $34.99 in LEGO Stores and ToysRUs
stores in the U.S., as well as online at shop.LEGO.com and at toysrus.com.
About LEGO Systems, Inc.
LEGO Systems, Inc. is the North American division of The LEGO Group, a
privately-held, family-owned company based in Billund, Denmark, one of the
worlds leading manufacturers of creatively educational play materials for
children. The company is committed to the development of childrens creative and
imaginative abilities, and its employees are guided by the motto adopted in the
1930s by founder Ole Kirk Christiansen: Only the best is good enough. Visit
the virtual LEGO world at www.LEGO.com
LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure and brick and knob configuration are
trademarks of The LEGO Group. ©2014 The LEGO Group.
SOURCE LEGO Systems, Inc.
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Press Releases
November 4, 2011
LEGO® Universe to close in 2012
Online game will close on January 31, 2012. The LEGO Groups digital offerings
will continue to develop over the coming years.
November 4, 2011 The LEGO Group today announced that it will close LEGO®
Universe, an MMOG (massively-multiplayer online game) that has been in operation
since the autumn of 2010.
In spite of very positive player feedback and a large number of players in the
free play zone, it has not been possible to convert a satisfactory number of
players to paying subscribers. It has therefore been decided to close the game
as of January 31, 2012.
The LEGO Universe team can take pride in having developed and launched a great
LEGO experience that many players will miss, said Jesper Vilstrup, Vice
President, LEGO Universe. Right now, we have almost 2 million players in LEGO
Universe, and we get extremely positive feedback from players. Unfortunately, we
have not been able to build a satisfactory revenue model in our target group,
and therefore, have decided to close the game.
Despite the change, the ambition to develop and run a digital business remains.
In future, it is the intention to further pursue cooperation with partners. The
LEGO Group has a strong and continuing partnership with TT Games & Warner Bros.
Interactive Entertainment to create digital LEGO experiences within video games.
A further expansion in the digital area will mainly be based on similar
partnerships.
The development of our digital offerings continues to be a very important
element in our strategy, said Mads Nipper, Executive Vice President, LEGO
Group. We have more than 20 million visitors on www.LEGO.com every month, and
LEGO video games are among the bestselling childrens video games with sales of
more than 60 million units in the last five years. Through our experience
developing and running LEGO Universe, we have gained a lot of valuable insights,
and we have a very strong foundation for future development in the digital
area.
As a consequence of the closure, the LEGO Universe staff has today been informed
that the Play Well Studios in Louisville, Colorado and the games marketing
function in Billund, Denmark will be closed. This will affect 115 employees. All
affected employees will be offered assistance in finding new jobs inside or
outside the LEGO Group.
LEGO.com
Source from LEGO Group.
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Anyone with thoughts or ideas as to what LEGO could have change or added to LEGO
Universe? Sort of a... what if?
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Gazillion press release clarifies Netdevil layoff rumors
By Jef Reahard on Feb. 24th 2011
The NetDevil/LEGO Universe brouhaha that unfolded earlier this morning is
officially official thanks to a press release just published by Gazillion
Entertainment. Gazillion has formally agreed to sell its development stake in
the LEGO Universe MMO to the LEGO Group (the games publisher and custodian of
the world-famous toy brand).
Most of the LEGO devs, formerly employed by NetDevil (a Gazillion subsidiary),
have received employment offers from the LEGO Group and will continue iterating
on the game from the companys Louisville, Colorado studio.
Gazillion is re-focusing its ongoing development efforts into browser games,
according to President and COO David Brevik. The transition of members of our
team to the LEGO Group enables us to focus completely on internally-published,
free-to-play game businesses, he said.
Massively.joystiq.com
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