COPENHAGEN – September 3rd 2024 - 5th Planet Games A/S (OAX: 5PG) - 5th Planet Games and Skybound Entertainment, known for blockbuster franchises The Walking Dead and Invincible, is working on a video game set in the Invincible universe, based off the comic by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, and also the Prime Video adult animated series which has a perfect 100% Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score. The video game will be developed under the direction of Skybound’s internal studio made up of notable industry vets from Activision Blizzard, EA, Amazon Games, and others alongside creator Robert Kirkman himself.
Commenting on the opportunity, Mark Stanger, CEO of 5th Planet Games observed “in a relatively short time, Invincible has become one of the hottest properties in global entertainment, and for 5th Planet Games to have the opportunity to participate in the creation of a new game, being created by Skybound’s in-house studio is incredibly exciting”
Other Invincible universe games the company has published include Invincible Presents: Atom Eve, a critically acclaimed visual novel RPG where you play in a non-cannon world as Atom Eve; Invincible: Guarding the Globe, a mobile RPG where you play as Cecil’s number two, developed in partnership with Ubisoft; and most recently, three custom Fortnite maps with a level of production value unmatched by other Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) Creative Mode experiences, outside of Epic’s owned and operated, with exceptional cinematic animations, detailed character models, and original voice-over: Doc Seismic Attacks, GDA Combat Training, and Rise of the Sequids.