For the first time in years, players don't have to buy a new portal to play the new Skylanders game releasing this September.
Though there will be a new Portal of Power with Skylanders SuperChargers, it's possible to use portals from Giants, Swap Force and Trap Team with a digital version of the game.
Using a digital version will work similar to last year's tablet editions, giving players 'instant' access to new characters Hot Streak and Spitfire within the game so they can explore its new features.
Digital and physical editions are otherwise identical, according to developer Vicarious Visions, with all other figures old and new readily supported.
"You can make the single downloadable purchase and pay with your existing portal and your existing collection," president and co-founder Guha Bala told Digital Spy.
"We've figured out new technical ways of going further backward than Swap Force. If we go back to Giants, the technology changes substantially from Spyro's Adventure to Giants, so that's the one set of portals that we may not support - that's to be finalised still."
Sometimes patents do just more than frustrate video game company's, the force innovation. Here are 10 examples of this in action.
Let's also not forget the other frivolous attempts at patents like how Sony tries to trademark the term "Let's Play", or how King tried to trademark the term "candy", or how Mojang tried to patent the term "scrolls".
The most ridiculous has to be in 2009 and 2011, when Sega was awarded two more patents on the use of tap and drag-and-drop controls on a touchscreen to move characters around; i.e., using a touchscreen as a touchscreen! Level-5's rebuttal was quite possibly the most epic pwning ever to happen via corporate public statement.
Phil writes, "Let's turn our attention to last year's Skylanders SuperChargers. With Imaginators coming out this year and all the hype around Crash Bandicoot being in it, it seemed like a smart time to try out the game's predecessor. Here's SuperPhillip Central's review of Skylanders SuperChargers."
With E3 in full swing, Mon Amiibo has a look at what could be in store for the Skylanders franchise at the show.
