Toy Story's claw machine among five toy boxes added to Disney Infinity

TOY BOX WEDNESDAY:
Disney Infinity Announces Five New Toy Boxes Created By The Disney Team!

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"Toy Story Claw" Toy Box
LONDON, UK – [27th November 2013] – Today Disney Interactive is giving players access to five new Disney-created Toy Boxes in appreciation for all of the support from the community. Check out the latest episode of the new web series, "The Disney Infinity Top 5 Toy Box Countdown," for a look at the complimentary Toy Boxes: http://youtu.be/67RF5Eo-5gY
To download new screenshots of each new Toy Box, please visit: www.dis-press.com
Details for each Toy Box are below:
· Toy Story Claw – Find the 10 lost aliens and return them to their ship! Drop them into a ESPN hoop for extra credit.

· Big Thunder – Race through a mine inspired by the classic Disneyland attraction Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

· Sky Gauntlet II – Play the sequel to the original Sky Gauntlet Toy Box ... with an even more challenging course!

· Toy Story Racer – Ready, set, to Infinity and beyond! Race the AI in this Toy Story in Space-themed racetrack.

· The Sky Trials – Test your courage and wisdom to finish puzzles and get rewarded.

How to download new Toy Boxes:
· Select "Toy Box" from the Disney Infinity Main Menu

· Select "Toy Box Share" and "Disney's Toy Boxes."

· There will be a list of all the featured Toy Boxes for players to download.

When you're ready to submit your Toy Box for consideration, follow these directions:
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U
· Bring up the Pause Menu and select "Online/Multiplayer."

· Then select "Toy Box Share" > "Disney's Toy Boxes" > "Submit to Disney."

· Follow the prompts. You'll be asked to give your Toy Box an original name and description. Choose carefully – they will be shown to everybody if your Toy Box is featured.

iPad
· Bring up the Pause Menu and select "Toy Box Share."

· Then select "Disney's Toy Boxes" > "Submit to Disney."

· Follow the prompts. You'll be asked to give your Toy Box an original name and description. Choose carefully – they will be shown to everybody if your Toy Box is featured

About Disney Infinity
Disney Infinity is an all-new video game initiative starring the beloved characters from Walt Disney and Pixar Studios' most popular franchises. Players can place real-world toy versions of favorite Disney characters onto a device called the Infinity Base and transport them into the virtual game worlds of Monsters University, the Incredibles, Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lone Ranger and Toy Story, as well as into a giant Toy Box. Disney Infinity is available in stores now for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Wii and 3DS.
For additional information, check out www.disney.com/Infinity and join the Disney Infinity Facebook Community www.facebook.com/disneyinfinity
For the latest video assets, please visit www.youtube.com/disneyinfinity
Press Contact:
victoria.vengco@disney.com

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November NPD: A new record, with Xbox 360 joined by MW3 and Skyrim on top (Update 2: Sony PR added)

by Christopher Grant on Dec 9th 2011 5:57PM

(Update: Microsoft Chief of Interactive Entertainment Aaron Greenberg has released Xbox 360 sales via Twitter, which are included below.)

It's a little good, a little bad with this year's November 2011 NPD results. While "unit sales grew for console hardware, as well as console, portable, and PC software," NPD analyst Anita Frazier warns that "a decline in average retail price in all categories" besides portable hardware resulted in dollar sales that were flat compared to last November. That said, November 2011 "marks the best November on record for sales of new physical content," besting the previous record holder, November 2008.

Unsurprisingly, the Xbox 360 was the top selling piece of gear for the month and Frazier notes that the "gap between 360 sales and sales of the next best selling platform was the largest we've seen since December 2008 when the Nintendo DS was the top selling system." Microsoft Chief of Interactive Entertainment Aaron Greenberg later added via Twitter that the Xbox 360 sold 1.7 million consoles during the month of November, up 23% year over year. For the month, Nintendo announced it sold more than 860,000 Wii systems, more than 795,000 Nintendo 3DS systems and more than 350,000 Nintendo DS systems.

Meanwhile, Sony declined to provide specific sales numbers for the PS3. According to Sony PR chief Patrick Seybold, "PlayStation 3 is off to a phenomenal start to the holiday season, recording the best ever Black Friday sales period in the console's five-year history. According to the November NPD report the PS3 saw a 70% increase in hardware and a 30% increase in software year-over-year." The PS3 sold 530,000 units last year, which would situate PS3 sales for November 2011 in the neighborhood of 901,000 units.

In the software arena, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 took its perch at the top of the charts, besting Black Ops "by about 7%," while Skyrim managed "a five-fold increase over Oblivion's first month sales" coming in just a half-million units short of matching its predecessor's lifetime sales. Other newcomers include single SKU exclusives like Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception in seventh place and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword in ninth.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360, PS3, PC)Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC)Assassin's Creed: Revelations (360, PS3, PC)Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360)Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2)Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3)Saints Row: The Third (360, PS3, PC)The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (WII)Batman: Arkham City (360, PS3, PC)

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