Amid all of the online game trailers at Gamescom’s Opening Night time Stay, a shock gem appeared out of nowhere: Secret Stage, an grownup animated collection by the creators of Love, Dying + Robots.
The trailer was packed full of various online game characters and worlds however apparently it’s going to solely characteristic 15 video games, with every getting a brand new story for one episode. The listing of video games is: Armored Core, Harmony, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, New World: Aeternum, Pac-Man, PlayStation, Sifu, Spelunky, The Outer Worlds, Unreal Match, and Warhammer 40K.
It’s kind of of an odd listing as I am not fairly certain what the through-line is, apart from the necessity for a bit extra promoting. However even with the shortage of a theme, the addition of PlayStation is an outlier, as as an alternative of an precise sport, it’s going to be “highlighting varied PlayStation Studios beloved entities,” in response to a press launch. I am undecided what qualifies as an “entity,” but when which means we get an Astro animated brief, I will be completely satisfied.
I used to be completely impressed with Love, Dying + Robotic’s three seasons, and whereas there have been a few misses a lot of the episodes hit. My private favorite continues to be Season 1’s Secret Struggle, a brief that I at all times thought would make for a stellar online game. So even when the listing of video games is an odd combine, I am fairly assured in Blur Studio’s capacity to tug one thing nice off.
The teaser trailer that we noticed at Opening Night time Stay did appear fairly spectacular, and it was cool to see how every world was animated barely in another way. However the one scene that has followers frothing on the mouth solely lasted for a few seconds and appears to be Keanu Reeves piloting an Armored Core.
A brand new ARMORED CORE saga awaits. Simply considered one of fifteen epic tales from Secret Stage, the brand new revolutionary gaming anthology collection coming December 10 on Prime Video. pic.twitter.com/SHm80ZWqwCAugust 20, 2024
It isn’t confirmed but whether or not that is truly Reeves, and whereas the primary few seconds of the shot at 0:52 would not actually seem like him, the character in query does seem to nearly morph right into a Reeves lookalike. Armored Core even tweeted a picture that resembles Reeves extra.
Sadly, the anthology collection premiers on December 10, 2024, so we’ll have to attend a bit longer to get any type of affirmation on whether or not Reeves is increasing his online game portfolio to extra than simply Cyberpunk 2077 or The Matrix Awakens.
Apart from Secret Stage there have been loads of different thrilling bulletins, together with extra particulars on Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, a brand new standalone Dying Mild sport, and a meaty chunk of Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6’s marketing campaign.