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Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. Sure, they’re only 5 minutes long each, but that’s better than nothing, right? Also, this article was brought to you by RAID: Shadow Legends. If the countless sponsorships that they have with YouTubers and streamers are anything to go by, Plarium has got money. Honestly, I’m pretty surprised that this game has managed to nab some of the industry’s big hitters, but I’m also not that surprised either. He’s been a storyboard artist since 1997, working on series such as Max Steel, Spider-Man, The Boondocks, Teen Titans, Ben 10, multiple Winnie the Pooh animations, just about any DC animation you can think of, and then a metric fucktonne of Marvel, DC, and Disney properties. Now this one is a real doozy, because Oliva is a bit of a legend in the animation world. Super Show back in 1989! Weird stuff.Īnd then there’s Jay Oliva, the CEO of Lex + Otis animation studio, who will be the showrunner of RAID: Call of the Arbiter. He was an executive producer for The Super Mario Bros. But that’s not all, because Skylanders Academy wasn’t even the first video game adaptation that Rollman worked on either.

He was a supervising producer for Skylanders Academy back in 2016, with animation studio TeamTo working on both that series and the upcoming RAID series. Rollman was involved in Marvel Television from the mid-90’s up until around 2010, and then worked on various animated and live-action children’s series after that.įunnily enough, this isn’t even the first video game adaptation that Rollman has worked on. Here’s the trailer:Īccording to the Hollywood Reporter, the ten-episode short-form series will be produced by former president of Marvel Television Eric Rollman.

That being said, it’s a bit smaller scale compared to Arcane and Edgerunners, with RAID: Call of the Arbiter being a YouTube affair consisting of ten weekly episodes that are 5 minutes long each. Following in the footsteps of games like League of Legends and Cyberpunk 2077, RAID: Shadow Legends will be getting the adaptation treatment this year.

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