Amazon Is Working on a New Video Game Animated Anthology

Oct 15, 2024

The great video game adaptation boom is continuing to boom, even in the midst of its latest bust. Amazon is joining with the team behind Netflix’s animated sci-fi anthology series Love, Death + Robots to do much the same, but for video games—and it could bring some major heavy hitters from the gaming world to life.

Deadline reports that Prime Video is working with Tim Miller and Blur Studios to develop Secret Level, an animated anthology series to bolster its slate of adult-focused animation. While little is known about the series so far, the trade reports that the show will adapt multiple video game franchises across its episodes, including the indie platformer/roguelike Spelunky, and from Amazon Games’ own publisher library, the kinda-not-great colonial MMORPG New World.

Considering Amazon Games doesn’t have much else in the form of, well, games to adapt–—although it’d be quite funny to see a turnaround on Amazon adapting its upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO while Rings of Power is still going—it’s no surprise then that Secret Level will apparently branch out to adapt games from other publishers. According to Deadline, the series will initially be bulked out with a series of adaptations of famous PlayStation franchises.

While no details were revealed as to what specific PlayStation games could be part of the series were revealed, Sony has plenty of options. Obviously we already have The Last of Us at HBO, and Amazon itself is already working on a live-action adaptation of God of War. But recent plans for a Horizon adaptation at Netflix fell through in the wake of allegations against its co-showrunner, Umbrella Academy‘s Steve Blackman, so there’s at least potential there for Aloy to leap into animation instead, among other candidates like Ratchet & Clank or Astro Bot that would be ideally suited for animation. Hey, why not thrown an Uncharted adaptation on the fire while we’re at it, too?

It’ll be interesting to see just what the scope of the show will be, but it’s already an intriguing idea, especially if it could provide a home to adapting game series that are crying out for exploration in formats outside of games that might not necessarily sustain their own long-form adaptation. We’ll no doubt find out more if Secret Level gets a more formal unveiling at Gamescom next week. But in the meantime, let us know in the comments if there’s a particular franchise you’d love to see get the animated treatment here.

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