Motion Picture Academy\u2019s Museum of Motion Pictures<\/a> in mid-city Los Angeles. The next night, the festivities moved west to The Lighthouse, a sleekly renovated former post office turned event and co-working space two blocks from the beach in L.A.\u2019s Venice neighborhood, with the proceedings partly streamed on Amazon\u2019s Twitch service. <\/p>\nThe event was sponsored by Amazon and Microsoft-owned game publisher Bethesda Softworks. Microsoft, of course, also sells Xbox game consoles, another event sponsor, and publisher Activision Blizzard. The events timed nicely to The Game Awards, which unspool tonight in downtown Los Angeles and have become a pivot point for numerous pre-show industry gatherings around town. <\/p>\n
A third sponsor, Samsung, was at Tuesday night\u2019s event to preach the gaming possibilities on its big screen TVs. Samsung head of product for visual displays Kevin Beatty touted the game center built into newer Samsung televisions. Owners of those TVs can log in to the game center and play Fallout directly over the cloud, without needing a console or PC, he said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are trying to shape the future of storytelling,\u201d said Beatty, a former long-time Disney executive. \u201cWe have entered a new era where audiences don\u2019t just want to watch and hear stories. They want to immerse themselves fully. This starts to hint at new worlds of entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n
What wasn\u2019t streamed online Tuesday night was Season 2\u2019s opening episode, which was screened for about 200 in-person attendees. Embargo agreements prevent me from offering much detail (but, thumbs up, Fallout fans!), except to say Walter Goggins and Ella Purnell return, among other Season 1 stalwarts, as the show shifts part of its focus to a somewhat less ruined Las Vegas. <\/p>\n
Fallout event panel members included (l. to r.) Twitch personality Will Neff, series co-creator\/showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet, and long-time Bethesday game director and series executive producer Todd Howard.<\/p>\n
(Photo by David Bloom)<\/p>\n
Tuesday night\u2019s event also featured a short Q&A moderated by prominent Twitch streamer Will Neff that featured two key Fallout franchise creators: showrunner and co-creator Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Todd Howard, the legendary Bethesda Games producer behind several titles for Fallout and the equally beloved Elder Scrolls. Howard, a winner of the Game Developers Conference lifetime achievement award, is also an executive producer of the video series. <\/p>\n
Howard said he was surprised the sets for the show had little \u201cmovie magic,\u201d i.e., visual effects that try to emulate the games. Instead, so much of the sets are actual real-world recreations\/constructions that evoke the games\u2019 gritty, ruined look (and its sardonic humor). As one show creator told Howard: \u201cIt\u2019s all computerized. The best we can do is make it real.\u201d <\/p>\n
Some of the many Fallout-related products, including Funko Pop dolls. <\/p>\n
(Photo by David Bloom)<\/p>\n
Howard called the show\u2019s version of power armor (if you know, you know) is \u201cincredible. It\u2019s really scary. Much scarier in person.” <\/p>\n
His other favorite practical effect was \u201ca real jet pack. Anyone else would (use computer-generated graphics to do) that,” Howard said. \u201cBut they just said the particulate (from the jet pack\u2019s exhaust) just looks better.\u201d <\/p>\n
Some parts of the series are \u201cprinted directly from the game, \u201d Howard said. But the quest for verisimilitude had its limits. <\/p>\n
\u201cI hope (fans) feel we honored what they love about the game,\u201d Robertson-Dworet said. \u201cThere are so many (Fallout game) fans among our creative team. But occasionally we have to take some creative leaps.\u201d <\/p>\n
Howard said he \u201ccannot emphasize how much Geneva sweats (details of the show). We want to be mindful of the canon, but it evolves, even with the games.”<\/p>\n
An attendee plays Burning Springs, the new expansion to Fallout 76.<\/p>\n
(Photo by David Bloom)<\/p>\n
The video series\u2019 Season 2 debuts next week, following the Dec. 2 debut of Burning Springs, one of the biggest-ever expansions of Fallout 76, one of the pillars of the game series. The expansion adds a broad new territory to Fallout 76 gameplay in the southeast region of a devastated (and no longer united) United States. <\/p>\n
The Game Awards unspool online at 5 pm PST this evening on Twitch and YouTube, and will be carried on Amazon Prime Video for the first time as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three giant tech companies took advantage of The Game Awards festivities this week in Los Angeles to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5318,148606,148607,49,48,35767,848,61],"class_list":["post-338968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-bethesda-softworks","tag-burning-springs","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fallout","tag-samsung","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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