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Activision announced during its Toy Fair 2013 press conference that the Skylanders franchise has surpassed $500 million in revenue, and over 100 million toys have been sold. The sell-through is the fastest such a milestone has been reached by kid’s games, including WWE and Star Wars. During the Toy Fair, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg revealed that Skylanders Giants sold over $195 million in the US since its holiday release. He also introduced Skylanders: Swap Force, which was announced earlier this week. You can watch the presentation of the later below.

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Skylanders: Giants is getting a third wave of new characters from Toys For Bob and Activision. They are Eye-brawl and Thumpback, and we’ve got screens of the duo and their figures here.

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Skylanders – the toy-based game franchise from developer Toys For Bob and publisher Activision has amassed a whopping $500 million in US sales since the original game Spyro’s Adventure launched in 2011.

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Wii bundles will start arriving in US stores starting early next month to prepare folks for the holiday shopping extravaganza to come.

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FIFA 13 has held its reign at the top of the official UK charts for yet another week. Newcomer Skylanders Giants has stomped in at second. Get more details below.

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Skylanders Giants is nearly with us. The sequel to one of 2011′s surprise hits is readying itself for release tomorrow. Players can pick this up on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and 3DS.

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Activision is backing Skylanders as a franchise equally as lucrative as Call of Duty, and will use a similar approach to grow the kid-friendly property.

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Hands-on impressions of Skylanders: Giants from the E3 2012 show floor have revealed fresh details as to what gamers can expect from the sequel to Spyro’s Adventure.

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Toys For Bob’s Alex Ness has told ONM Skylanders Giants will release on 3DS and development is being handled by Vicarious Visions. According to Ness, the title will be “completely different game than the Wii version,” and it will contain 20 news characters, as well as eight Giants. Characters from the previous entry in the series will work with the game, but only the new characters will be able to hit the new level cap. It’s out in the fall on PS3 and Xbox 360 as well. Thanks, NWP.

Activision has announced Skylanders Giants, a follow-up to the kids’ IP Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure, which will debut at the North American International Toy Fair next week in New York.

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