Raid: Shadow Legends is the latest animated video game with 10 short films coming to YouTube in May.
Publisher Pixel United and developer Plarium have announced that each episode of Raid: Call of the Arbiter will run once a week for five minutes starting May 18, 2023. Promising cinematic-quality animation, the shorts seem to elevate Raid’s core characters. With a deeper, more immersive story.
Eric Rollman, CEO of Rollman Entertainment and former president of Marvel Television, will produce the series, Lex + Otis CEO Jay Oliva will act as showrunner, and composer Jesper Kyd (who has worked on Assassin’s Creed and Borderlands). will compose the original music for the show.
“We are thrilled to be working with such a talented team on this exciting new series that takes Raid: Shadow Legends to the next level for fans,” said Nicholas Day, Plarium Vice President, Creative and Executive Producer. said.
“We want to establish Raid as an evergreen bankable IP that is strong enough to do more while appealing to a core fan base and generating interest from a wider audience. increase.”
However, Raid is entering a highly competitive market. There’s no doubt that the power of animated video game adaptations has grown significantly over the last few years.
The League of Legends series Arcane won IGN’s Animated Series of the Year in 2021 and became the first streaming series to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. Also in the review he scored 10/10.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners premiered with similar fanfare last year, winning Crunchyroll and IGN’s Best Animated Show of 2022 awards. Take a closer look at what made Mike Pondsmith’s famous location so iconic in the first place. “
Correction, March 13: An earlier version of this story had the wrong date for the first day of Raid: Call of the Arbiter.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and UK news editor. He talks about witchers all day long.
