Featured games, what you should know about the Prime series

A new animated series takes viewers into the worlds of more than a dozen video games.

“Secret Level,” an animated anthology series from Tim Miller, creator of the award-winning Netflix series “Love, Death & Robots,” premieres this month on Amazon Prime Video.

The anthology’s episodes are inspired by a variety of games, from Pac-Man to Dungeons & Dragons to Unreal Tournament, and feature a star-studded voice cast. Each short film in the series is based on a game or franchise and picks up a story from that game’s setting, characters, or general themes. The visuals and tone of the narrative in Secret Level vary depending on the source material. Miller’s Blur Studio collaborated with Amazon MGM Studios to produce the series.

Here are some important things you should know about “Secret Level,” including which games it features, when the episodes will be released, and the cast:

Secret Level release date and how to watch it

“Secret Level” will premiere on December 10th with the first eight episodes on Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video. Prime will release the remaining episodes a week later on December 17th.

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How many episodes are there?

The anthology includes 15 episodes of short films. The running time of the episodes averages around 13 minutes, but the range varies between seven and almost 20 minutes.

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What video games are included in Secret Level?

The series is based on a mix of old and new games including:

Pac Man
Warhammer 40,000
Mega man
Concord
Dungeons & Dragons
Sifu
New World: Aeternum
Unreal tournament
Crossfire
Armored core
The Outer Worlds
Exodus
Caving
Honor of kings
PlayStation Studios games

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Who is in the series?

The voice cast of “Secret Level” features some familiar names, including:

Keanu Reeves (from “The Matrix”, “John Wick”)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (from “Terminator”)
Kevin Hart (from “Jumanji”)
Ariana Greenblatt (from “Barbie”, “Ahsoka”)
Ricky Whittle (from “American Gods”)
Claudia Doumit (from “The Boys”)
Michael Beach (from The Perfect Couple, Waiting to Exhale)
Gabriel Luna (from “The Last of Us”)
Emily Swallow (from “The Mandalorian”)
Patrick Schwarzenegger (from “The White Lotus”)
Merle Dandridge (from “The Last of Us”, “Greenleaf”)

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