How Amazon's Secret Level Distills Your Favorite Games Into Short TV Show Episodes

New World: Aeternum, Amazon Games’ MMO, is set during the Age of Exploration, on an island where no one can die–but immortality isn’t always a gift. For some, living forever leads to madness, while others lose their souls. Some corpses are long since hollowed out but live on, unable to find peace.That idea gets pretty dark pretty fast, but in the episode of animated anthology series Secret Level that’s based on New World, the focus is on a slightly different take on the material. “[New World: Aeternum is] not quite as light as [the episode] presents it,” said New World: Aeternum narrative director Rob Chestney, during a question-and-answer session with press following a recent screening of Secret Level’s first episode. “We talk about it as grimdark. We talk about it as supernatur…

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ModRetro Chromatic Preorders – GameStop Has Exclusive Variant Of The Modernized Game Boy

The ModRetro Chromatic is now available to preorder at GameStop ahead of its release this holiday. The Chromatic is a modernized Game Boy aiming to offer an authentic experience with modern technical advancements. It plays original Game Boy and GBC cartridges as well as Chromatic-branded new releases. Funded by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, the Chromatic has been available to preorder in six different color schemes from ModRetro since its June reveal, but now you can order a gray model from GameStop. You won’t find the Chromatic at any other major retailer, as ModRetro partnered exclusively with GameStop.The ModRetro Chromatic costs $199 and comes bundled with a new Tetris cartridge. According to GameStop’s listing, the Chromatic releases December 1, with preorders arriving “on or short…

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