Fun Family Gaming Gift Guide

By Sonya Davidson

Holiday season is packed with gift ideas and for families we often take a look at what games are out there. Whether it be board games or video games there’s no shortage of ideas. We break down some of our family favourites for this gift giving season.

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Hasbro and Blizzard debut ‘Overwatch’-inspired NERF gun

Overwatch fans are going to want to keep your eyes out for this. While teased back in May on Overwatch’s Twitter account, Blizzard and Hasbro showed off its NERF gun inspired by the popular game at San Diego Comic-Con. The NERF Rival Overwatch Reaper Wight Edition, as its name suggests, takes design inspiration from Reaper’s signature shotguns in the game. It comes in all-white with chrome, black, and bronze accents. It can carry eight rounds and can shoot up to 90 feet per second. Each gun also has a custom NERF Rival rounds that has the Overwatch logo on them. This is expected to hit stores in 2019.

Source: Hypebeast

‘M.A.S.K.’ to get a live action movie

It’s been rumoured before that Hasbro planned to create a movie based on the Kenner toyline M.A.S.K. but it was reportedly scrapped. Now, it seems the project is back on with Fate of the Furious director F. Gary Gray supposedly helming the film. Deadline reports that he’s closed a deal with Paramount and Hasbro to bring this multimedia franchise to the big screen. MASK is an acronym for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, which is a task force led by Matt Trakker who works to take down criminal organization VENOM.

Source: Deadline

Hasbro takes a stab at crowdfunding, starts off with massive vintage Star Wars toy

Hasbro is taking on crowdfunding and is taking an unusual approach to it. But if you’re a diehard fan of the company’s toys, Haslab, as Hasbro calls it, might be an exciting concept for you. The crowdsourcing program kicks off with something massive—quite literally. It’s a 4-foot long, 14lbs recreation of Jabba’s Sail Barge from Return of the Jedi. Launching Haslab allows the company to develop more premium toys that would seem a bit too much for the mainstream toy market. It’s for enthusiasts who are willing to shell some precious moolah for limited edition toys.

What’s unusual about this crowdsourcing platform is that Hasbro will announce a possible project and if the product meets its preorder goals, the company will make the toy. If it doesn’t the toy won’t get made and its backers won’t be charged for the preorders. In the case of the Sail Barge, its target is 5,000 preorders at a very premium price of US$500 apiece and the company hopes to reach this goal before April 13. The Barge is part of Hasbro’s newly revived 3.75” “Vintage Collection” of Star Wars action figures. It features a fully detailed interior with removable panels, fabric sails a special figure of Jabba himself, as well as a production booklet how the vehicle was translated from the movie to the figure.

Source: io9