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Battle Bears’ Ben Vu is Pipeline’s first regional Innovator of the Year
Pipeline, the Kansas-based entrepreneurial fellowship program for high-growth entrepreneurs, tonight held its annual awards celebration, Innovator of the Year. Nearly 600 individuals attended the sold out event at The Midland theater in Kansas City, Mo. Battle Bears creator Ben Vu of Omaha earned the event’s highest honor, “Innovator of the Year,” one of four awards…
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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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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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Prairie Moves: Fundle, Kickanotch, Gigabit Challenge and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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 email …
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Battle Bears turns 2, SkyVu celebrates 12 million downloads
In August 2009, Ben Vu, founder and CEO of SkyVu Entertainment, came to us with a news pitch for an iOS game he described as ” ‘Care Bears’ meets ‘Black Hawk Down.’ ” Intrigued, we reviewed the app in a post titled “SkyVu Pictures releases Battle Bears iPhone app.” Today, thanks to that first app…
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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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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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While Angry Birds flies high, BATTLE BEARS pack continues to grow
This past September, SkyVu Pictures, the creators of the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android app BATTLE BEARS, announced that their download total for paid and unpaid apps reached 4 million. This month, that number surpassed 6 million. One iteration of the game, BATTLE BEARS -1, is currently the #3 Free Adventure Game in the iTunes…
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Midlands Business Journal’s 2010 ’40 Under 40′
Earlier this month, the Midlands Business Journal, a weekly trade publication in Omaha, released its annual “40 Under 40” list recognizing 40…