Prime Video is developing a new video game program, an anthology focusing on multiple titles from multiple developers.
For Expirationthe series is dubbed Secret Level. The episodes will be set in the worlds of the games including Speleologist and Amazon's MMO New World, along with unspecified PlayStation properties.
Deadpool director Tim Miller will direct the show through his studio Blur. The company previously worked on Love, Death, & Robots for Netflix and has been cited as a specific inspiration for Secret Level.
For Prime Video, this marks its second video game-based show after Fall last April. In itself, Secret Level is the first major anthology series for the Game-adaptation pipeline.
Publishers like PlayStation and Xbox have made clear their plans to adapt their games to different meansBut not all games might have the characteristics needed to land on a streamer, either because they were not created with this goal in mind, or because they are simply too old or little known.
In theory, Secret Level's anthology format could make a difference. Older games can get some time in the spotlight, which could lead to a surge in popularity, as we saw with Fall AND The Last of Us.
So a long series of sleeping games with repeated adaptation voices around it could find a second life through this show, even if only for a little while.