Game artists: It's time to show your work to the world. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has opened submissions for its third annual arts showcase—promoting an honoring a broad spectrum of art by specific artists in video games.
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The Fallout franchise was born in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of America’s West Coast, and successive games went to expand out of California and explored regions like Nevada, Appalachia, Washington, and even outer space. Now, a whole host of Fallout characters are headed to the planar multiverse, showing up as part of four new Commander decks for Magic: The Gathering. Announced first in August, Wizards of the Coast on Thursday has unveiled the first details on these new products, which head to retail on March 8, 2024. They’re available for pre-order now.
The Commander decks follow four themes, pairing meta-layer gameplay mechanics with familiar faces and locations in the Fallout franchise. And yes, you can absolutely pet the dog.
These decks are accompanied by lavish land cards, showing off the various locales of Fallout’s wasteland and post-apocalyptic civilizations. Below, we have a preview of 52 cards players can acquire and field. Expect more to be revealed as we get closer to launch.
While Caesar, Dogmeat, Madison Li, and Mothman take the starring role of Commanders, there are still plenty of other references to the Fallout universe. If you ever delved into the Vault full of Gary clones in Fallout 3, you might be glad to see that they’ve turned up here as well. There are also beasties only found in Fallout 76 or Fallout: New Vegas, like the sinister Scorchbeast Queen featured in one of the Swamp land cards.
The post-nuclear and sci-fi vibes mean that Fallout feels very distinct, even next to other Universes Beyond crossover cards from other series. There are even a few different art styles to add some more variety. Some cards are depicted with simple painterly portraits, and they look like the typical cards you’d find in a Magic: The Gathering pack.
Others choose to lean into Fallout’s unique aesthetic a little more. Some cards are depicted through the lens of a Pip-Boy, the handy wrist-mounted gadget that lets Vault Dwellers check the map or listen to the radio. There are also some cards depicted in the retro edutainment cartoon style of Fallout’s in-universe propaganda, starring the cheerful Vault Boy.
Game artists: It's time to show your work to the world. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has opened submissions for its third annual arts showcase—promoting an honoring a broad spectrum of art by specific artists in video games.
If you've been playing Alan Wake 2 you may have noticed just how pretty that game is. I'd go as far to say it's the best looking videogame of 2023. Developer Remedy has done incredibly well to make what could've been a very dull and dark world look vibrant and detailed, and has since divulged what's actually going on behind the scenes in the Northlight engine to achieve it. And boy, it's a lot.
Four ex-Kotaku staffers are launching a new subscriber-based video games and culture publication: Aftermath. The website, which is now live, will be co-owned by Nathan Grayson, Gita Jackson, Riley MacLeod, and Luke Plunkett — all Kotaku mainstays who helped shape its incisive voice before leaving the site for one reason or another.
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Building a robot that's both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid, most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical, looking better in staged performances than in real life. That hasn't stopped a handful of startups from keeping at it.
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The creators of Friends have shared a touching tribute to Matthew Perry, following his death. The 54-year-old was best known for playing Chandler Bing in the long-running sitcom, which ran for 236 episodes.
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