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• UPDATE 1-Mattel misses analysts' estimates for holiday quarter

  Feb 1- Mattel Inc missed Wall Street's profit and sales estimates for the fourth quarter on weak demand for Barbie dolls and movie-themed toys in the holiday season. The company, also home to Hot Wheels cars and Fisher-Price toys, said its net income had fallen to $306.5 million, or 87 cents a share, from $370.6 million, or $1.07 a share, a year earlier.

• Mattel misses analysts' estimates in holiday quarter

  Feb 1- Mattel Inc missed Wall Street's profit and sales estimates for the fourth quarter on weak demand for Barbie dolls and movie-themed toys in the holiday season. The company, also home to Hot Wheels cars and Fisher-Price toys, said its net income had fallen to $306.5 million, or 87 cents a share, from $370.6 million, or $1.07 a share, a year earlier.

• Nintendo to Post Unexpected Loss as Wii Successor Falters

  

  Nintendo, the world's leading gaming company by machines sold, said it will post an operating loss for a second straight year as the sales of its Wii U, successor to the 100-million selling Wii, faltered.

• Nikkei seen retreating from 33-month high on profit-taking

  TOKYO, Jan 31- Japan's Nikkei share average is expected to open lower on Thursday with investors likely to book profits after the index rose sharply to end above 11,000 for the first time in 33 months in the previous session.

• UPDATE 2-Nintendo to post unexpected loss as Wii successor falters

  TOKYO, Jan 30- Nintendo Co Ltd, the world's leading gaming company by machines sold, said it will post an operating loss for a second straight year as the sales of its Wii U, successor to the 100- million selling Wii, faltered.

• Toy sector suffers on Hasbro revenue miss

  The shares of a number of toy companies fell Friday after Hasbro said demand was weaker than expected during the holidays and it announced plans to cut jobs. Hasbro, who brands include Monopoly and Nerf, said before the market opened that its fourth-quarter revenue would not meet market expectations because of weaker demand.

• FEATURE-Women pry open door to video game industry's boys' club

  SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 13- When video game developer Brenda Brathwaite Romero started her career in the 1980 s, she could count the number of female developers in the industry on one hand.

• UPDATE 1-Disney joins JAKKS, LA billionaire to bring toys to life

  LOS ANGELES, Jan 8- Walt Disney toys are sold around the world. The media giant is teaming up with toy company JAKKS Pacific and Patrick Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles' wealthiest person, on a new line of toys- with a nifty technological twist designed to link the goodies that kids lug home from the store with Disney's stable of well-known animated characters.

• Berenson Speaks About 'The Prince of Beers' 

  

  The collapse of the family behind the mighty Anheuser-Busch brewing dynasty has remained a mystery. Alex Berenson, Former New York Times reporter, offers insight, on his Kindle single, "The Prince of Beers," which goes behind closed doors with the final heir August Busch IV.

• YOUR MONEY: Behind the Black Friday hot toy lists

  NEW YORK, Nov 20- Get ready to hear a lot about the Eagle Talon Castle, the LeapPad2 from LeapFrog and the reincarnation of Furby- all of which toy industry insiders predict will be hot sellers this year. Last year, toy sales exceeded $21 billion, dominated, of course, by the holiday season.

• UPDATE 3-GameStop profit beats forecast; cautiously eyes holiday

  SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 15- GameStop Corp, the world's largest retailer of videogame products, reported a stronger-than-expected profit on Thursday but lowered its sales forecast for this year due to uncertainty around the holiday shopping season as the video game market struggles.

• Quadski: Coolest Product Ever? 

  

  CNBC's Brian Shactman reports the top new toy for wealthy sportsman could be the "Quadski"; a quad bike that converts to a jet ski without stopping.