Skylanders Franchise The Biggest Cash Cow Game of the Year, Thus Far

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">&NewLine;<p>Activision has announced that their children-targeted <em>Skylanders<&sol;em> franchise has made more money than any other game franchise at this point in the year&period;  For those not familiar with the series&comma; users purchase a starter pack with the game and a &&num;8216&semi;portal&&num;8217&semi; to use their characters which come in the form of action figures that&comma; when placed on the portal device&comma; are put into the game as playable characters&period;  Additional characters can be bought in booster sets&comma; similar to how trading cards are sold&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With little in the way of big releases so far&comma; in 2012&comma; one can see how a game such as this could surpass all competition&period;  Activision has declined to release the actual sales figure at this point&comma; though they had released that it had produced over &dollar;100 million in the first quarter alone&comma; back in March&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Needless to say&comma; there are more <em>Skylanders<&sol;em> games on the horizon and Activision will likely squeeze this money sponge for all it&&num;8217&semi;s worth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;computerandvideogames&period;com&sol;350444&sol;activisions-skylanders-is-the-biggest-cash-generator-this-year&sol;&quest;cid&equals;OTC-RSS&amp&semi;attr&equals;CVG-General-RSS&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;dlvr&period;it&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;twitter">CVG<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;