Omaha 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 Android version. … read more

Omaha 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 and consumer products line. The series, according to SkyVu founder and CEO Ben Vu … read more

Omaha 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 … read more

Omaha 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 … read more

Omaha 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 the Omaha-based animation studio couldn't seem to hang on to any of its merchandise while in San … read more

Omaha 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 App Store, in the Top 25 on the iPad, and in the Top 10 in ten other countries. The wildly successful… read more