It’s true – one day Angry Birds will take over the world. When birds start bombarding farms and a bacon shortage is declared, we’ll know it’s too late. The next sign of the invasion will appear in May 2011. That’s when Mattel is going to release an Angry Birds board game called Angry Birds: Knock on Wood. As you can see from the image above, it looks a lot like the iPhone game. Well, except it will be $14.99 and the iOS version is 99¢…

THQ has signed another deal that spans several years. Following its multi-year agreement to develop and publish SpongeBob SquarePants games, THQ has announced it and Mattel have sealed a similar deal. THQ now has exclusive rights to develop and publish games that bear Mattel’s branding such as Barbie, Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price toys. These games will appear on consoles, social networks, handhelds and PC.

A brand new Barbie doll has made her debut at the 2010 Toy Fair in New York this year – computer engineer Barbie! Mattel conducted a vote among Barbie fans on Facebook and Twitter, asking them to help decide what Barbie’s should do for her 125th job. There were four choices – architect, computer engineer, environmentalist, news anchor and surgeon. Computer engineer and new anchor received the most votes, so her 125th job will be as a techie and her 126th as an anchor. A price hasn’t been announced for either the computer engineer or news anchor Barbie, but Mattel did confirm that both dolls would be released in Fall 2010.

The computer engineer Barbie looks like, well, take a look to your right. She’s bespectacled, clad in a multicolor shirt that looks like it’s showing a visual representation of a social network with binary code in the background, awkwardly carrying a laptop on her arm and armed with a phone and bluetooth earpiece. She’s also wearing a white vest with blue collar and magenta piping that would look better on a fast food attendant than a computer technician.

Honestly, I think she looks more like a telemarketer than a computer technician…

Have you ever thought you had telekinesis? Well it turns out everyone does! I didn’t believe it myself until I tried out the new Mind Flex game by Mattel at Comic Con this year.

I was introduced to a nice man who told me I was about to play a game where I have to move a small foam ball through an obstacle course using only my mind. Of course I was skeptical but then he strapped this helmet to my head (which attaches to your ears as well) and showed me the course…