Former designer who worked on the popular Runescape game have created a new startup PlayFusion and a new game Lightseekers that it hopes will represent the next generation of toys-to-life video games.

Many former Runescape devs broke away to form PlayFusion - a company whose first game is actually several projects: a mobile ARPG, a card game, a comic book, a toy line, and more. PlayFusion recently ...

After a few years of fevered popularity, the toys-to-life genre is seemingly at a lull. Activision’s huge Skylanders franchise is taking a year off after several annual entries and more than 300 ...

Lightseekers by Play Fusion opens the door between the physical and virtual worlds and never truly closes it. When it ships early next year, it may stand in stark contrast to games like Skylanders and ...

Toys, video-games, movies and collecting cards are all popular with children. While big brands try and tie them together this is usually an afterthought that kids soon see through. Lightseekers hopes ...

In case you missed our overview of Lightseekers Trading Card Game and its incredibly rich lore, here’s the skinny: launched in 2016 as a Kickstarter project to create a video game and trading card ...

It’s a little bit Disney Infinity, a little bit Pokémon, but PlayFusion sees the Kickstarted game as something all its own. The platform for Lightseekers is fully connected. In partnership with toy ...

Cambridge-based mobile games developer PlayFusion is bringing the physical trading card game based on its first release Lightseekers to mobile and PC. The digital edition of the game will co-exist ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andy Robertson reports on technology & digital play. Spending the best part of a day with Lightseekers, I've realised that calling ...