Skybound Entertainment and Ultra announce publishing partnership for The Walking Dead series and several other available and upcoming titles
We’re delighted to announce our first publishing partner: Skybound Entertainment. Various titles, including The Walking Dead series, Before Your Eyes, and Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan will be available on Ultra early next year.
As well as bringing Skybound’s previously released titles to Ultra, we’ll be adding several upcoming titles in 2022 and beyond. Our partnership will also explore ways to deliver more engagement to both of our communities and provide more value to players.
The sky’s the limit
This multi-year partnership will give players around the world the best that Skybound and Ultra have to offer. We’ll be teaming up to bridge the gap between our platform and services along with Skybound’s catalogue of game titles so you can experience the vast change in gaming as we all know it.
“We’re excited to be partnering with Skybound Entertainment, teaming up to provide iconic and upcoming titles for you all to enjoy. We’ll continue to work together in the coming months and years to reveal the exciting titles Skybound will be publishing on Ultra, as well as broadly exploring what our suite of services offer to the games industry.” Nicolas Gilot, Co-CEO of Ultra
Skybound’s commitment to creator rights, their communities, and building franchises aligns with the values we hold dear at Ultra. Our partnership will demonstrate this in various ways and will contribute to the wider mission to provide creators with creative control, interact with fans in new and exciting ways, and deliver extra value for the various franchises Skybound has to offer.
“Ultra’s platform is poised to transform the way games are purchased, shared and experienced,” said Dan Murray, President, Skybound Games. “We look forward to working closely with Ultra and their comprehensive platform solution to deliver Skybound Games’ slate of original titles to a much wider network of gamers.”
The Walking Dead Series
Ultra will have each of The Walking Dead titles available on Ultra Games so you can immerse yourself in the world of Lee Everett once more (or for the first time, as many wish to). With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, jump right in to protect an orphaned girl named Clementine.
The Walking Dead series emcompasses the following games:
- Season One
- 400 Days
- Season Two
- Michonne – A Telltale Miniseries
- A New Frontier
- The Final Season
- The Walking Dead: The TellTale Definitive Series
Before Your Eyes
Developed by GoodbyeWorld Games, Before Your Eyes is an award winning and emotional first-person narrative that touches all. Controlling the story, and consequently affecting the outcome with each decision you make, embark on this journey and fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
For a lighter and wholesome experience, jump into the colourful and adventure-filled world of Rainbow Billy! Recolour the world in this 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with 30 hours of gameplay, all the time needed to have a whole lot of fun, explore mysterious lands, make new friends, and solve puzzles.
Ultra is here to disrupt the games industry, one app at a time
Make the most of your games
No more are the days where you buy a game, play them, and leave them collecting figurative dust in your games library once you’re done with them. With Ultra, you’ll be able to trade and sell your games on the NFT marketplace, providing you with the opportunity to finally have more freedom when it comes to owning your digital items.
This second-hand market is designed to fully support the developers involved as Ultra provides them with complete control on how and when their games are distributed on the marketplace. Our GDC has a variety of customisable options for developers, including but not limited to choosing the minimum resale price, the period at which it can be sold in, and geographically where it can be resold.
Get rewarded
On Ultra, we reward players for sharing their love for games with their friends. Our 2-step referral program provides players with rewards for each time they bring someone new to the platform, giving you all the chance to earn through your experience with us. Your rewards will be available in your Ultra Wallet where you’ll have the chance to spend on anything within the platform. Whether you want to try out the latest titles to drop on Ultra Games or purchase one of the NFTs on our marketplace, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
Streamers and content creators, we got you too! Our simple promoter program rewards you for sharing gameplay and speaking about your favourite titles on Ultra. Simply share and speak about your favourite games on Ultra and get rewarded for supporting the title when someone purchases the game through your special link.
Join the Ultraverse
We’re releasing the Ultra platform application by application so you can experience the growth of our ecosystem with us.
Jump into our world, designed specifically for you, and gain access to your Ultra Wallet and Theta.tv so you can secure your unique username, use your referral link, and watch livestreams. Our next application to be publicly available will be the NFT marketplace where you can buy and resell NFTs, and after that Ultra Games will be available to everyone.
Join us today to be a part of the new era of gaming!
About Ultra
Ultra is the first entertainment platform providing all key games industry services under a single roof, accessible through a single login.
Built around our PC games distribution store, Ultra Games, our platform will provide access to countless centralized and decentralized services: Discover, buy, play and sell your games and in-game items, watch live-streaming feeds, interact with your favorite influencers, participate in contests, compete in tournaments, and much more.
Ultra has been built to provide endless value for players, a fair playing ground for developers, and a whole new world of opportunities for the games industry.
For more information, visit https://ultra.io and https://onultra.io/ and follow along on Twitter, YouTube, and Discord.
About Skybound Entertainment
Skybound 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 including The Walking Dead, Invincible and Superfight.
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 and novel publishing with Image Comics, 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. For the most up to date information on Skybound’s video game properties, follow the company on Twitter (@SkyboundGames), YouTube (Skybound Games), Facebook (@SkyboundGames) and at www.skybound.com.
