Last weekend, Joker: Folie à Deux arrived in theaters with poor reviews, negative fan reactions, and a much lower opening box office weekend than the first Joker movie. And now the $200 million sequel has dropped about 80 percent in its second weekend while Terrifier 3, an indie horror flick, became the biggest movie…
Last weekend, Joker: Folie à Deux arrived in theaters with poor reviews, negative fan reactions, and a much lower opening box office weekend than the first Joker movie. And now the $200 million sequel has dropped about 80 percent in its second weekend while Terrifier 3, an indie horror flick, became the biggest movie…
My patience with Overwatch 2 is wearing thin, and it’s only getting thinner as the hero shooter enters its 13th season today, October 15. The Halloween-centric season is full of recolors of old skins and a lot of the cosmetic favoritism that has plagued the game in the past year. But it also has a new patch, one that…
My patience with Overwatch 2 is wearing thin, and it’s only getting thinner as the hero shooter enters its 13th season today, October 15. The Halloween-centric season is full of recolors of old skins and a lot of the cosmetic favoritism that has plagued the game in the past year. But it also has a new patch, one that…
For most of the latest episode of HBO’s The Penguin, Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) suffers at the hands of men. We learn how she was forced into Arkham Asylum by her father after she questioned how her mother died, and was then repeatedly violated by the male doctor there and stripped of her rights until she did, in…
For most of the latest episode of HBO’s The Penguin, Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) suffers at the hands of men. We learn how she was forced into Arkham Asylum by her father after she questioned how her mother died, and was then repeatedly violated by the male doctor there and stripped of her rights until she did, in…
When Gamescom happened at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Amazon MGM Studios and Blur Studio debuted Secret Level, an animated anthology featuring short stories set in the worlds of some of the most popular video games on the planet. The anticipated project hails from the makers of Love, Death + Robots, an anthology series featuring original tales in horror, science-fiction, and fantasy. According to a leaked trailer for Secret Level, the cast includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart, and Keanu Reeves, lending severe star power to the stunningly gorgeous collection of short stories based on video games like Mega Man, Concord, Armored Core, Sifu, Warhammer 40,000, and more. MP1st was the first to report about the leak.
Other names rumored to be in the trailer (which is no longer available after a DMCA takedown) include Temuera Morrison (The Book of Boba Fett), Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie), Merle Dandridge (The Last of Us), and Claudia Doumit (The Boys), alongside Michael Beach, Clive Standen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ricky Whittle, Gabriel Luna, Emily Swallow, and more.
Secret Level consists of 15 animated shorts inspired by the following game franchises:
Armored Core
Concord
Crossfire
Dungeons & Dragons
Exodus, Honor of Kings
Mega Man
New World: Aeternum
PAC-MAN
PlayStation (featuring various PlayStation brand properties)
Sifu
Speluncky
The Outer Worlds
Unreal Tournament
Warhammer 40,000
Tim Miller and Dave Wilson will serve as executive producers of the series, and Wilson will also step up as the supervising director. “‘Secret Level’ weaves a tapestry of iconic games across multiple mediums, to tell a series of unique and captivating stories,” said Vernon Sanders, head of television for Amazon MGM Studios. “Created and led by Tim Miller, Blur Studio, and Supervising Director Dave Wilson, each episode will take our global Prime Video customers on a brand new journey with breathtaking animation and imaginative storytelling.”
The official synopsis for Secret Level reads: “Each episode of ‘Secret Level’ serves as a gateway to a new adventure, unlocking exciting worlds from beloved gaming classics and highly anticipated new titles. Prepare for an unforgettable journey, where Amazon MGM Studios and gaming’s finest unite in a first-of-its-kind event that brings together more game IP in a single series than has ever been done before.”
Are you excited about Secret Level? The teaser trailer has the anthology looking wild in all the right ways. I hope Astro Bot appears in the PlayStation short. He’s my boy.
Bandai Namco may be the latest big gaming company to face cutbacks. According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Japanese publisher behind the fresh hit Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which sold 3 million copies in its first day,recently canceled a project it was working on for Nintendo, as well as other internal games,…
Bandai Namco may be the latest big gaming company to face cutbacks. According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Japanese publisher behind the fresh hit Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which sold 3 million copies in its first day,recently canceled a project it was working on for Nintendo, as well as other internal games,…
In retrospect, it is a little weird how that otherwise ridiculously generous multi-hour demo for Metaphor: ReFantazio just kinda decided, “You’ve had enough,” after a random boss in Regalith Grand Cathedral. Over a million people have since told Atlus, “We’ll tell you when we’ve had enough,” and bit the bullet on the…