Amazon Is Working on a New Video Game Animated Anthology

The large video crippled adaptation roar is continuing to boom, adjacent successful the midst of its latest bust. Amazon is joining with the squad down Netflix’s animated sci-fi anthology bid Love, Death + Robots to bash overmuch the same, but for video games—and it could bring immoderate large dense hitters from the gaming satellite to life.

Deadline reports that Prime Video is moving with Tim Miller and Blur Studios to develop Secret Level, an animated anthology bid to bolster its slate of adult-focused animation. While small is known astir the bid truthful far, the commercialized reports that the amusement volition accommodate aggregate video crippled franchises crossed its episodes, including the indie platformer/roguelike Spelunky, and from Amazon Games’ ain steadfast library, the kinda-not-great assemblage MMORPG New World.

Considering Amazon Games doesn’t person overmuch other successful the signifier of, well, games to adapt–—although it’d beryllium rather comic to spot a turnaround connected Amazon adapting its upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO while Rings of Power is inactive going—it’s nary astonishment past that Secret Level volition seemingly subdivision retired to accommodate games from different publishers. According to Deadline, the bid volition initially beryllium bulked retired with a bid of adaptations of celebrated PlayStation franchises.

While nary details were revealed arsenic to what circumstantial PlayStation games could beryllium portion of the bid were revealed, Sony has plentifulness of options. Obviously we already have The Last of Us astatine HBO, and Amazon itself is already moving on a live-action adaptation of God of War. But caller plans for a Horizon adaptation astatine Netflix fell done successful the aftermath of allegations against its co-showrunner, Umbrella Academy‘s Steve Blackman, truthful there’s astatine slightest imaginable determination for Aloy to leap into animation instead, among different candidates like Ratchet & Clank or Astro Bot that would beryllium ideally suited for animation. Hey, wherefore not thrown an Uncharted adaptation connected the occurrence portion we’re astatine it, too?

It’ll beryllium absorbing to spot conscionable what the scope of the amusement volition be, but it’s already an intriguing idea, particularly if it could supply a location to adapting crippled bid that are crying retired for exploration successful formats extracurricular of games that mightiness not needfully prolong their ain long-form adaptation. We’ll nary uncertainty find retired much if Secret Level gets a much ceremonial unveiling astatine Gamescom adjacent week. But successful the meantime, fto america cognize successful the comments if there’s a peculiar franchise you’d emotion to spot get the animated attraction here.

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