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Ben Vu says his family’s journey from Vietnam inspired Battle Bears game
Media coverage of Omaha gaming startup SkyVu Entertainment often notes the irregularity of an animation studio based in Nebraska, but the story of how the company’s creator, Ben Vu, laid roots here has rarely been told. Vu’s parents and older brother immigrated to the state in 1975, fleeing South …
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Battle Bears reaches 20m downloads, billboards “all over” San Francisco
SkyVu Entertainment announced Tuesday that Battle Bears, its popular mobile game franchise that’s on its way to becoming a television show, surpassed 20 million downloads. Originally released in 2009, Battle Bears is currently available in three iterations: Battle Bears -1, Battle Bears: Zombies! and the multiplayer Battle Bears Royale, for which SkyVu recently released an…
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Battle Bears to break onto small screen as SkyVu announces TV deal
SkyVu Entertainment today announced it has signed a development deal with Wildbrain Entertainment to bring the characters of its popular mobile game franchise Battle Bears to the small screen. Wildbrain, a DHX Media Ltd. Company behind shows that air on Nickelodeon, Disney and HBO, is licensing the Battle Bears brand to develop a TV series…
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Listen to an interview with Ben Vu, the brains behind Battle Bears
For your listening pleasure, here’s SkyVu Entertainment founder Ben Vu’s radio spot from Saturday on the Mulberry Lane Radio Show on 1290 KKAR in Omaha. Vu (left), who heads up SkyVu, the Omaha-based mobile games studio that brought the world Battle Bears, covered lots of ground in the course of an interview that ran just…
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SkyVu makes multiplayer debut with Battle Bears Royale release
For hungry Battle Bears fans whose appetites we whet with the preview we provided of SkyVu Entertainment’s latest project back in August, the feast has finally arrived. Omaha-based SkyVu today released Battle Bears Royale, its first multiplayer game, for free download in the App Store. “This is truly the best Battle …
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Cornstalks Demo Night: SkyVu by Ben Vu (Video)
Fresh off a successful trip showing their wares at Comic-Con in San Diego, Ben Vu and the SkyVu team demonstrated two games to a hometown crowd on Thursday at Cornstalks Demo Night. First, they ran through their most recent release, Battle Bears Blast. Second, they showed off their next project on the horizon, Battle Bears…
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Prairie Moves: Gina Kovanda, Kyle King, Archrival and more
Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in one of our recent Prairie Moves. What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon…
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SkyVu cleans up at Comic-Con, presses on with big projects
SkyVu Entertainment went to Comic-Con International July 21-24 in San Diego and came back empty-handed. Well, empty-handed in a literal sense, anyway. “We introduced our first Battle Bears toy, two new T-shirts, an exclusive comic book,” SkyVu founder Ben Vu said in an email, “and we sold out of everything.” But that the team from…
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Prairie Moves: Justin Graves, GoodTwin Design, Zappn and more
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…
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Prairie Moves: Dave Medema, Erik Antonson, Charise Flynn and more
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…