The Sandbox Announces Partnership with Skybound Entertainment to...

The Sandbox Announces Partnership with Skybound Entertainment to Bring The Walking Dead Comics to The Sandbox Gaming Metaverse The Sandbox teamed up with Skybound Entertainment to bring The Walking Dead to their virtual world – Plus standalone characters and assets players can use to create original The Walking Dead adventures. HONG KONG – July 8th, 2021 –The Walking Dead is coming to the metaverse...The Sandbox, a leading decentralized gaming virtual world and a subsidiary ofAnimoca Brands, announced today that it has partnered with Skybound Entertainment to bring an authentic newThe Walking Deadexperience toThe Sandboxopen gaming metaverse. Never before have fans had access to a customisableThe Walking Deadexperience like this. WatchThe Sandboxteaser video forThe Walking Deadexperience: https://youtu.be/x8w89PriaE4 InsideThe Sandboxmetaverse, the carefully integratedThe Walking Deadgame experience will encourage gamers to unite with friends and other players as they overcome the day-to-day requirements of surviving a walker-infested habitat: scavenging for food, gathering resources, building walls, nurturing relationships, making alliances and more. Through the power ofThe Sandbox, voxel versions of favouriteThe Walking Deadcharacters, such as Rick Grimes, Michonne and the iconic walkers, can be combined with a horde of assets to allow users to recreate memorable comic book storylines to play through or to forge their own original adventures. VisitThe Sandbox<>The Walking DeadLanding Page: thewalkingdead.sandbox.game Part virtual real-estate, part amusement park,The Sandboxfully embraces the idea of the metaverse as this continuous shared digital space where worlds and heroes collide to make rainbow-colored magic (thinkReady Player One). Skybound Entertainment’s IP joins over 160 existing partnerships including deadmau5, Richie Hawtin, The Smurfs, Care Bears, Atari, ZEPETO, and CryptoKitties, all following The Sandbox team's vision of empowering players to create their own experiences using both original and well-known characters and worlds. In addition to the dedicatedThe Walking Deadexperience onThe Sandboxmap, users will be able to create their own fan-made adventures and stories featuring characters, game items, equipment, wearables, and decorative digital assets fromThe Walking Deadfranchise—or just showcase the assets they own in a digital gallery or museum. As a first step to bringThe Walking DeadintoThe Sandbox's metaverse, the team will give users the possibility to get pieces of virtual real estate close toThe Walking Dead's spot in the metaverse, enabling fans and gamers alike to be as close as ever to their beloved brand. Fans will be able to buy LANDS next toThe Walking DeadinThe SandboxVirtual World Map "BringingThe Walking Deadcomic book franchise toThe Sandboxmetaverse will offer fans a groundbreaking opportunity to play, create, socialize, inhabit and interact within a novel multiplayer gaming virtual world,"said Dan Murray, Co-CEO, Skybound Games & Merchandise"It was important to us to offer a richThe Walking Deadexperience inThe Sandboxand leverage this first chance for players to create and share their own, user-generated new adventures featuring characters created by Robert Kirkman." "Our collaboration withThe Walking Deadprovides a whole new level of entertainment to our gaming metaverse, being one of the most exciting additions to our growing list of well-known IPs that exist alongside user-generated worlds created within The Sandbox,"said Sebastien Borget, COO and Co-Founder ofThe Sandbox."Fans will be able to step into an immersive, action-packedThe Walking Deadexperience as well as add their favorite Skybound characters and assets to their very own game worlds." The Sandboxis scheduled to launch its first public Alpha for players in Summer 2021, enabling anyone to experience a social hub and gain the power to build a fantastic collection of fantasy and role-playing adventures that can be traded with other players, creators, and artists on the platform. Find more information on theThe Sandboxon our Medium page:https://medium.com/sandbox-game Follow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TheSandboxGame Like us on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/voxedit Message us on Telegram:https://t.me/sandboxgame Join our ** channel:https://discordapp.com/invite/vAe4zvY About The Sandbox The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is one of the decentralized virtual worlds that has been fueling the recent growth of virtual real-estate demand having partnered with major IPs and brands including Atari, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Care Bears, The Smurfs, Shaun the Sheep, and Binance. Building on existing The Sandbox IP that has more than 40 million global installs on mobile, The Sandbox Metaverse offers players and creators a decentralized and intuitive platform to create immersive 3D worlds and game experiences and to safely store, trade, and monetize their creations. For more information, please visitwww.sandbox.gameand follow the regular updates onTwitter,Mediumand**. About Animoca Brands Animoca Brands, ranked in the Financial Times list ofHigh Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification. Animoca Brands develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including theREVV tokenandSAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Formula 1®, Marvel, WWE, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Doraemon. Animoca Brands' portfolio of blockchain investments and partnerships includes Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity), Dapper Labs (CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot), OpenSea, Harmony, Bitski, and Alien Worlds. Its subsidiaries include The Sandbox, Quidd, Gamee, nWay, Pixowl, and Lympo. For more information visitwww.animocabrands.comor get updates by following Animoca Brands onFacebookorTwitter. About Skybound Entertainment Skybound Entertainment is a multiplatform content company that works closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending their stories to further platforms including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyond. The company is the home of notable properties includingThe Walking Dead,Invincible, andSuper Dinosaur. Skybound holds strategic partnerships across the entertainment industry, and has the in-house capabilities to serve as publisher, producer, and global distributor for tabletop and video games. On screen, Skybound holds a first-look television deal with Amazon Studios and a first-look movie deal with Universal. Additional partnerships include comic book publishing with Image Comics, book publishing with Simon & Schuster, and a first-look narrative audio deal with Audible. Skybound also houses a variety of unique creators and their IP, including Kristian Harloff and his pop-culture movie trivia platform the Schmoedown Entertainment Network, and printmaking expert Peter Santa Maria’s Attack Peter brand. Want to change how you receive these emails? You canupdate your preferencesorunsubscribe from this list.