Skylanders blazed the trail for smart gaming toys, which have become a hot space in the video game market.

Skylanders blazed the trail for smart gaming toys, which have become a hot space in the video game market. Now the $3 billion franchise is moving into new territory: mobile card games. The mobile game spinoff, Skylanders Battlecast, will let players build teams of their favorite Skylander characters, and battle competitors, but also buy actual physical cards they can scan into their devices for new content. (The Verge)