Neowin News Feed for: Mattel

Hot Wheels Unleashed revealed for consoles and PC, pre-orders open

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 22:28:01 +0000

A racing game featuring the wildly popular Hot Wheels brand of toy cars has just been announced. It will arrive on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC. Pre-orders are open. Read more...

Rocket League partners with Hot Wheels once again for its latest DLC pack

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:40:01 +0000

Battle-Cars and an entirely new arena inspired by Hot Wheels is heading its way to Rocket League next week. The arena is free to all players while the three new Battle-Cars are behind premium DLC. Read more...

Mattel scraps the controversial Aristotle speaker for kids

Dreyer Smit — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:42:01 +0000

After immense pressure from advocacy groups and US lawmakers, Mattel has scrapped its plans for a smart speaker geared towards children, after calls for concern over the privacy of children. Read more...

Aristotle is a smart speaker for kids, which evolves throughout childhood

Daniel Hull — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:16:02 +0000

Known as Aristotle, a new smart speaker is set to equip children with AI functionality from soothing music to foreign language tuition. Aristotle is packed with both Amazon Alexa and a local AI. Read more...