The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman will speak at GamesBeat Summit 2023
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We’re very excited to announce that Robert Kirkman, chief creative officer and cofounder of Skybound Entertainment and the creator of The Walking Dead, will be a key speaker at GamesBeat Summit 2023.
The GamesBeat Summit event takes place on May 22-23 in-person in Los Angeles and on May 24 online. (You can get 40% off the ticket price with this code: GBSDEANNEWS; early-bird pricing ends today).
Joining Kirkman in a fireside chat will be Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham, vice president of community development at Fortis Games and a former longtime leader at Twitch.
Kirkman’s franchise started as a comic book and then it took off everywhere. The Walking Dead saw the highest viewership series finale in scripted TV history at over 17 million viewers. Season 3 had a run of 75 consecutive episodes with more than 10 million same-day viewers, an unheard-of streak for a cable scripted series. It was the highest-rated cable television show ever, and it was the sixth most-watched show of 2022.
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As for The Walking Dead games, Skybound Entertainment and its partners at Telltale Games sold 80 million episodes of its narrative game series. Skydance’s virtual reality game, The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, reached 5.3 million players, and two million copies were sold of the VR game.
They’re going to talk about one of the key themes of the conference: Hollywood and Games — Are they one ecosystem, and if so, how has that changed? It fits with are
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