A lot of talent has helped shape the Final Fantasy franchise over the years, but artist Yoshitaka Amano has arguably had the biggest impact on the visual direction of the series. The Final Fantasy designer's career is celebrated in a gorgeous 328-page book titled Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography. Final Fantasy fans can save $56 on this unique biography, as Amazon has dropped the price from $150 down to $94. You can pair it with The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy Box Set for $125 (was $200), a three-volume set with art from the first 10 mainline games.Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography$94 ($150)Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated BiographyThe book itself contains nearly 400 illustrations and photos from across Amano's Final Fantasy portfolio and it also comes with a 96-page landscape-style softcover book. This is a collection of sketches from Amano during a tour of Paris, and is a lovely companion piece to his Final Fantasy work. Additionally, there's a Blu-ray with almost three hours of material, two mini-lithographs made by Amano exclusively for this release, and an individually signed card from the illustrator.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Marvel Champions: The Card Game $37.33 (was $80) with coupon See at Amazon Marvel: Crisis Protocol Miniatures Game $59.49 (was $100) See at Amazon Amazon has excellent deals on hundreds of board games ahead of Black Friday, including a wide assortment of tabletop adventures starring superheroes and villains from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Champions: The Card Game is available for only $37.33, over 50% off the strategy card game's $80 list price. You can also save big on several campaign expansion sets for Marvel Champions. If you like miniatures games, Marvel: Crisis Protocol is definitely worth checking out for $59.49 (was $100). Other highlights include Marvel Villainous for only $14.69 and Marvel Splendor for $35.We've rounded up the best Marvel Black Friday board game deals below. Some of these Marvel games are eligible for Amazon's Buy Two, Get One Free Board Game Sale, which we've noted next to the price. Marvel Champions: The Card Game $37.33 (was $80) with coupon Marvel Champions is a cooperative strategy game for up to four players. The base game includes 350-plus cards, 100 tokens, five hit point counters, status cards, and movable dials to track stats throughout each run. Champions is designed for Marvel fans ages 14 and up, and each game, on average, takes anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes.Though designed as a cooperative experience, Marvel Champions is known for being an excellent single-player game.Several Marvel Champions campaign expansion sets are on sale for steep discounts, too. The Galaxy's Most Wanted, a Guardians of the Galaxy-themed campaign, is available for only $20.66 (was $45); the X-Men-focused Mutant Genesis campaign is down to $28 (was $45); and The Mad Titan's Shadow starring Thanos is up for grabs for $16.66. Marvel Champions Core Set -- $37.33 ($80) with couponMarvel Champions: The Galaxy's Most Wanted Expansion -- $20.66 ($45) with couponMarvel Champions: The Mad Titan's Shadow Expansion -- $16.66 ($25)Marvel Champions: Mutant Genesis Campaign Expansion -- $28 ($45)Marvel Champions: NeXt Evolution Expansion -- $36 ($45)Marvel Champions: Sinister Motives Expansion -- $40.40 ($45) See at Amazon Marvel: Crisis Protocol Miniatures Game $59.49 (was $100) Marvel: Crisis Protocol is a two-player tactical strategy game featuring an ensemble cast of heroes and villains. You and your opponent create squads of miniatures and race to see who can complete missions the fastest. Each game lasts roughly 90 minutes. The Core Set comes 10 miniatures and display stands for each character, various terrain pieces, cards, tokens, dice, and more. Here are the characters you get with the Crisis Protocol Core Set:Spider-ManIron ManCaptain AmericaBlack WidowCaptain MarvelUltronCrossbonesBaron ZemoDoctor OctopusRed SkullYou can expand your roster of heroes and villains with character packs, several of which are on sale, too:Marvel: Crisis Protocol Core Set -- $59.49 ($100)Marvel: Crisis Protocol - Thanos Expansion Pack -- $38 ($65)Marvel: Crisis Protocol - Deadpool & Hydra Agent Bob Character Pack -- $32 ($55)Marvel: Crisis Protocol - Emma Frost & Psylocke Character Pack -- $30 ($40)Marvel: Crisis Protocol - Electro/Sandman/Shocker/Vulture Character Pack -- $55 ($80) See at Amazon Continue Reading at GameSpot

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To meet demand for Blackwell, now in full production, Foxconn, the worlds largest electronics manufacturer, is using NVIDIA Omniverse. The platform for developing industrial AI simulation applications is helping bring facilities in the U.S., Mexico and Taiwan online faster than ever.Foxconn uses NVIDIA Omniverse to virtually integrate their facility and equipment layouts, NVIDIA Isaac Sim for autonomous robot testing and simulation, and NVIDIA Metropolis for vision AI.Omniverse enables industrial developers to maximize efficiency through test and optimization in a digital twin before deploying costly change-orders to the physical world. Foxconn expects its Mexico facility alone to deliver significant cost savings and a reduction in kilowatt-hour usage of more than 30% annually.Worlds Largest Electronics Maker Plans With Omniverse and AITo meet demands at Foxconn, factory planners are building physical AI-powered robotic factories with Omniverse and NVIDIA AI.The company has built digital twins with Omniverse that allow their teams to virtually integrate facility and equipment information from leading industry applications, such as Siemens Teamcenter X and Autodesk Revit. Floor plan layouts are optimized first in the digital twin, and planners can locate optimal camera positions that help measure and identify ways to streamline operations with Metropolis visual AI agents.In the construction process, the Foxconn teams use the Omniverse digital twin as the source of truth to communicate and validate the accurate layout and placement of equipment.Virtual integration on Omniverse offers significant advantages, potentially saving factory planners millions by reducing costly change orders in real-world operations.Delivering Robotics for Manufacturing With Omniverse Digital TwinOnce the digital twin of the factory is built, it becomes a virtual gym for Foxconns fleets of autonomous robots including industrial manipulators and autonomous mobile robots. Foxconns robot developers can simulate, test and validate their AI robot models in NVIDIA Isaac Sim before deploying to their real world robots.Using Omniverse, Foxconn can simulate robot AIs before deploying to NVIDIA Jetson-driven autonomous mobile robots.On assembly lines, they can simulate with Isaac Manipulator libraries and AI models for automated optical inspection, object identification, defect detection and trajectory planning.Omniverse also enables their facility planners to test and optimize intelligent camera placement before installing in the physical world ensuring they have complete coverage of the factory floor to support worker safety, and provide the foundation for visual AI agent frameworks.Creating Efficiencies While Building Resilient Supply ChainsUsing NVIDIA Omniverse and AI, Foxconn plans to replicate its precision production lines across the world. This will enable it to quickly deploy high-quality production facilities that meet unified standards, increasing the companys competitive edge and adaptability in the market.Foxconns ability to rapidly replicate will accelerate its global deployments and enhance its resilience in the supply chain in the face of disruptions, as it can quickly adjust production strategies and reallocate resources to ensure continuity and stability to meet changing demands.Foxconns Mexico facility will begin production early next year and the Taiwan location will begin production in December.Learn more about Blackwell and Omniverse.

More than 96% of all manufactured goods ranging from everyday products, like laundry detergent and food packaging, to advanced industrial components, such as semiconductors, batteries and solar panels rely on chemicals that cannot be replaced with alternative materials.With AI and the latest technological advancements, researchers and developers are studying ways to create novel materials that could address the worlds toughest challenges, such as energy storage and environmental remediation.Announced today at the Supercomputing 2024 conference in Atlanta, the NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM microservice accelerates such research by optimizing AI inference for chemical simulations that could lead to more efficient and sustainable materials to support the renewable energy transition.Its one of the many ways NVIDIA is supporting researchers, developers and enterprises to boost energy and resource efficiency in their workflows, including to meet requirements aligned with the global Net Zero Initiative.NVIDIA ALCHEMI for Material and Chemical SimulationsExploring the universe of potential materials, using the nearly infinite combinations of chemicals each with unique characteristics can be extremely complex and time consuming. Novel materials are typically discovered through laborious, trial-and-error synthesis and testing in a traditional lab.Many of todays plastics, for example, are still based on material discoveries made in the mid-1900s.More recently, AI has emerged as a promising accelerant for chemicals and materials innovation.With the new ALCHEMI NIM microservice, researchers can test chemical compounds and material stability in simulation, in a virtual AI lab, which reduces costs, energy consumption and time to discovery.For example, running MACE-MP-0, a pretrained foundation model for materials chemistry, on an NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU, the new NIM microservice speeds evaluations of a potential compositions simulated long-term stability 100x. The below figure shows a 25x speedup from using the NVIDIA Warp Python framework for high-performance simulation, followed by a 4x speedup with in-flight batching. All in all, evaluating 16 million structures would have taken months with the NIM microservice, it can be done in just hours.By letting scientists examine more structures in less time, the NIM microservice can boost research on materials for use with solar and electric batteries, for example, to bolster the renewable energy transition.NVIDIA also plans to release NIM microservices that can be used to simulate the manufacturability of novel materials to determine how they might be brought from test tubes into the real world in the form of batteries, solar panels, fertilizers, pesticides and other essential products that can contribute to a healthier, greener planet.SES AI, a leading developer of lithium-metal batteries, is using the NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM microservice with the AIMNet2 model to accelerate the identification of electrolyte materials used for electric vehicles.SES AI is dedicated to advancing lithium battery technology through AI-accelerated material discovery, using our Molecular Universe Project to explore and identify promising candidates for lithium metal electrolyte discovery, said Qichao Hu, CEO of SES AI. Using the ALCHEMI NIM microservice with AIMNet2 could drastically improve our ability to map molecular properties, reducing time and costs significantly and accelerating innovation.SES AI recently mapped 100,000 molecules in half a day, with the potential to achieve this in under an hour using ALCHEMI. This signals how the microservice is poised to have a transformative impact on material screening efficiency.Looking ahead, SES AI aims to map the properties of up to 10 billion molecules within the next couple of years, pushing the boundaries of AI-driven, high-throughput discovery.The new microservice will soon be available for researchers to test for free through the NVIDIA NGC catalog be notified of ALCHEMIs launch. It will also be downloadable from build.nvidia.com, and the production-grade NIM microservice will be offered through the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.Learn more about the NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM microservice, and hear the latest on how AI and supercomputing are supercharging researchers and developers workflows by joining NVIDIA at SC24, running through Friday, Nov. 22.See notice regarding software product information.

We are thrilled to share an update regarding Hitman World of Assassinations upcoming launch on PS VR2, and what you can expect when you take on your assignments as Agent 47. With brand new features such as dual-wielding, full ambidexterity, room-scale implementation, as well as general improved VR experience through new intuitive controls and gameplay mechanics, you will have all the tools you need to complete your mission as a Silent Assassin.New release dateFirst of all, we would like to address the change in the release date. Initially slated for December 2024, the launch of Hitman World of Assassination on PS VR2 has been rescheduled to March 27, 2025. This decision to move the release date was not made lightly; we know there was a lot of demand to bring Hitman on PS VR2, and we were excited to see the great reception following the announcement. As such, our priority will always remain to deliver an amazing experience that meets the high standards our players expect. The additional time will not only allow our team to polish the game, ensuring that every aspect is refined, immersive, and seamless, but also to add a few extras that we really wanted to include in this PS VR2 version, such as active reloading.The complete Hitman WOA experience on PS VR2The whole main campaign of Hitman World of Assassination will be playable on PS VR2, meaning that you will be free to explore 20 unique locations, each with their own living and breathing world. From the glamorous runways of a fashion show in Paris, to the dizzying heights of Dubais skyscrapers, or the rapturous crowd of a high-speed race in Miami, you will travel all around the world to find your next target. Careful consideration will be required to evaluate every available opportunity to complete your mission, and with over 100 weapons and items at your disposal, you can replay each location as many times as you want, to complete your objectives in as many ways as you wish.Enhancing the Hitman VR experienceDual-wielding and full ambidexterity were two of the most asked features to be brought to Hitman World of Assassination in VR, so we are happy to share that they will be available on PS VR2. You will now be able to execute different tasks at the same time, whether it be picking up an item crucial to your mission, whilst holding a weapon to deal with a bothersome guard, or simply equipping two Silverballers for more efficiency.Verify your age to view this content.Verify your age to view this content.Speaking of weapons, active reloading will now allow you to manually eject ammo, grab a new clip, and insert it back into your weapon, giving you full control of your gear. Depending on the situation, You can also holster your weapons on your body, allowing you to quickly hide or take your weapon out for added immersion. Finally, the snipers scope will now be fully usable, giving you the opportunity to show off your marksman skills.The PS VR2 version of Hitman World of Assassination also introduces positional interactions, which transform how players engage with the game world. Rather than simply pressing a button to trigger events, players are required to physically mimic actions, such as toggling a TV on or off by touching the screen, hacking CCTV footage by tapping on a keyboard, or poisoning a glass by holding and dropping a vial over it. This feature extends to opening doors, creating smoother and more natural interactions. Furthermore, quest items now remain physical and can be inspected in hand, allowing players to utilize them directly within set piecesswiping a keycard or turning a lock in a door, for example.Verify your age to view this content.Verify your age to view this content.Finally, to enhance one of the most emblematic mechanics of Hitman, the game is also bringing a more physics-based approach for taking disguises, where players can take an outfit using positional control, grabbing, and momentum, significantly enhancing the immersion and realism of the gameplay.We appreciate your patience while we work on creating an enhanced and even more immersive Hitman experience on PS VR2, through its new VR features and immersive gameplay mechanics. We look forward to seeing you step into the World of Assassination on March 27, 2025.

Were excited to say that Alien: Rogue Incursion is ready for your PS VR2 weve gone gold and are putting the finishing touches on the game, which is releasing on December 19. To celebrate, we have a brand-new trailer that delves deeper into Zulas story on LV-354, also known as Purdan.Play VideoHow did we go about making this trailer? Trailers are tricky things. You need to quickly break through the noise of everyday life, grab the audiences attention, and get them excited to see more. It seems logical that youd show the most fantastic, and exciting content. But that approach doesnt entirely work fans often complain that trailers give away too much detail about the film or game.Trailers need to curate the key components that fans expect, showcasing critical features in a compelling way and teasing elements that will blow players away, all while telling a self-contained story that begins and ends in roughly two minutes or less. VR games need to both establish the world that youll be immersed in and to communicate how you will operate in that environment. We have 2 minutes to make you feel that sense of presence and wonder.Trailers often focus on a particular theme or feature of the game that the team wants to showcase. So far, for Alien: Rogue Incursion, weve released trailers for our Hero Reveal, Enemies, Weapons & Gear, etc. Fans of the Alien franchise are also hugely invested in the story, so this trailer introduces the audience to the larger narrative, providing the set-up of why Zula Hendricks is on LV-354, Purdan. What happened to Zulas friend and former squad mate there? What deadly experiments have the researchers at this facility been messing with?Here is a breakdown of how we approached this trailer and told the story of the story.One of our early creative decisions was that whatever happened on Purdan had already happened. Zula is stepping into the aftermath of some event that has left Castors Cradle the research facility infested with horrifying Xenomorphs. Picking up the story after the facility has been compromised allows us to jump right into the suspense and action.The trailer follows a classic three-act structure, where each act has a particular focus. Act One of the trailers focuses was Mystery. Zula and Davis 01 head to Purdan to meet with Zulas former squad mate, Ben Carver. While approaching Castors Cradle, they notice their communications are jammed. Suddenly, they are fired upon by missiles and crash land at the facility. Act One of the trailer presents Zula -and the audience with many questions that need answering.Act Two of our story trailer focuses on revealing those events and showcasing the Dawning Horror. We see inside the facility and hear the voices of the people who work there. We weave in classic Alien themes like corporate corruption, personal greed, and professional hubris, all of which create a perfect storm of conditions for a Xenomorph outbreak. Hearing this dialog over the imagery of destruction, smoke, fire, and blood, we know the facility has already fallen.Now for the Big Finish! Our third act is The Enemy Revealed, where we see what Zula is up against. More truths are revealed about the facilityincluding that Gemini Exoplanet Solutions was experimenting with Xenomorphsand, most importantly, the Xenomorphs have already taken over. Zula has seen a lot in her storied career, but sheand the player will discover that the Xenomorphs at Castors Cradle are tougher, faster, and more unpredictable than what she has encountered. They are, in a word, evolved.Weve established by this point that danger is truly everywhere, and now we want to show players that you have the means to fight back. Armed with your weapons (M41 Prototype Pulse Rifle, Shotgun, Revolver, and Tacticals), Gear (Motion Tracker, Plasma Torch, Health Stims, Tablet), and Davis 01 at your side, you get to take the fight to them experiencing the world of Alien like you never have before. You will finally get to feel what its like to step into the world of the films -Aliens in particular- and immerse yourself in an experience so visceral and real that it will change your perceptions forever.Alien: Rogue Incursion launches December 19 on PS VR2. And thats a promise, as the game has already GONE GOLD! See you all at launch!