Top 20 Game Chart

This chart shows the top 20 games platform games. As you can see, EA and Ubisoft dominate the chart with three games each, Activision, Nintendo and Bethesda Softworks have two games each whilst all the other publishers have one game. It shows the Ubisoft and EA rule the roost when it comes to gaming because they have 3 games between them in the top 5. Assassins Creed III has the top spot this week. I think part of the reason it is number one is because it is an established franchise and in result would sell more. 

Synergy and Symbiosis

Synergy is the merging of companies that work together to benefit each other rather than working individualy. The word is used quite often to mean that combining forces produces a better product.
The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects. Cooperative interaction among groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect.

Symbiosis is when companies work together to create different products for a lot more profit. For example, Rovio created Angry Birds for the Ipod and they would then distribute it to another company so they can make Angry Birds toys e.g. Hasbro. They would share profits.

A good example of symbiosis is the way Mountain Dew have brought out a design that coincides with the release of Halo 4. The bottles look like they belong in the Halo universe because of the luminous design. Here is a picture:

Skylanders Giants

Skylanders Giants is going to be the biggest kids game of the Christmas season because it has everything that a child ever wanted in a game. It has fun, excitement, cool and inventive characters and it has toys. Lots of toys. The way it works is that you buy the toys and then you import them into your console using a base that has an illumines circle in the middle. You put the toy on this and it has imported onto the game. It is a wholly original idea and a fantastic one too. 
Giants brings some new things to the party though. Firstly there are eight new Giant Skylander characters that are physically larger toys, light-up when on the Portal and offer new gameplay mechanics. There are eight new normal Skylanders that have a Wow-Pow and switchable upgrade paths. There are eight light-up Skylanders that glow like the Giants when on the portal and have a special Smart Bomb attack when brought into the game. Finally, there are 24 returning characters from the first game that also have a Wow-Pow and switchable upgrade paths.