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The Walking Dead games hit $1B in revenue and the Netflix show hits 1.3B viewing hours in 2023

Franchises don’t get better than The Walking Dead. It has enormous hits on everything from comic books to TV shows to games. The games alone have generated more than $1 billion in revenues, and the Netlix show drew 1.3 billion viewing hours in 2023, according to a report by Owl & Co. And during that […]

Hernan Lopez, founder of Owl & Co., said in an interview with GamesBeat that The Walking Dead, which debuted as a comic book by creator Robert Kirkman in 2003, is the most successful original entertainment franchise created this century. And during the past couple of decades, Kirkman noted in our 2023 interview, that gaming movies and TV shows finally turned out to be good because the creators were gamers themselves. The Walking Dead franchise had more than 330 episodes across seven live-action TV series, and it continues to break records for Netflix as new generations of viewers discover it.

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