Fallen

During Gamescom Opening Night Live, CI Games’ Soulslike sequel Lord of the Fallen 2 finally reemerged with a cinematic trailer narrated by Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn. It confirms that the game is now called The Lords of the Fallen and is in active development for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. While the trailer doesn’t show any gameplay, a press release gives more context for what players can expect from this Soulslike RPG. The Lords of the Fallen is set 1,000 years after its 2014 predecessor…

Nothing but dust in the wind As part of the Gamescom Opening Night Live presentation, Focus Entertainment released a dramatic cinematic for its upcoming fantasy epic, Atlas Fallen. The new title is currently in development at Deck13, and will launch on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X in 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hFePdmcci0 The narrative trailer depicts two powerful heroes, seemingly with the strength of gods, as they protect a passing caravan of travelers and merchants from attack by the claws of some terrifying…

A Lords Of The Fallen follow up called The Lords Of The Fallen was announced via a trailer tonight at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The new game will be developed by Hexworks, a studio of CI Games, which was the studio behind the 2014 original. A soulslike fantasy role-playing game, this new take on the game has a dark fantasy setting, with a core feature being the split between the realm of the living and the dead. A full reveal is set for later this year. Check out the three-minute trailer narrated by Stranger Things’…

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The SpaceX Dragon Capsule carried four astronauts to the ISS in November 2020. Photo: NASAPieces of debris found on Australian farmland are suspected of originating from a SpaceX mission that launched nearly two years ago. It seems likely that the parts belong to SpaceX, but the private space company has yet to own up to the fallen remnants. The Australian Space Agency is currently investigating apparent space junk that crashed onto the Snowy Mountains in southern New South Wales, The Guardian reported. Three large pieces…

A downtown Denver apartment complex recently has had glass panes shatter on balconies. Panes have been breaking at Eviva on Cherokee Apartments at 1250 Cherokee St., said Marty McKenna of real estate investment trust Equity Residential. He didn’t provide further comment regarding the time frame or the number of shattered panels. “We currently have our operations team working with our engineering consultants to determine the cause and any potential remedies,” McKenna wrote in an email. The manager on-site Wednesday…

Prices for both Nvidia and AMD graphics cards are continuing to drop, with a new report highlighting how they’ve now fallen well below the manufacturer’s suggested retail prices (MSRP). It’s an ironic situation indeed. Before 2022, prices were going in the complete opposite direction — GPUs were nearly impossible to purchase at MSRP. However, due to the build-up of stock sitting on store shelves alongside the recent crypto crash, boards are finally becoming both available and, more importantly, affordable. Jacob…

A new fan game called Sonic And The Fallen Star has been released, and it can be played for free right now. Released on July 1 and developed by two-person team StarDrop and Hollie Taylor, Fallen Star is a completely original 2D Sonic game with nine new levels, along with new music, characters, enemies and boss fights. Fallen Star also includes cutscenes between each zone, special stages for collecting the Chaos Emeralds and around 50 original tracks. Check out the trailer for the robust fan game below.…

The Fallout London Mod team announced that two of their team members, lead technical adviser Ryan Johnson and project lead Dean Carter, were offered jobs at Bethesda.If you don’t know, Fallout London is an expansive mod for Fallout 4 that's scheduled to release in 2023. Set in the titular city, it’s an ambitious fan project attempting to offer an experience comparable to downloadable content Bethesda might release for the game. The team took to Discord and Twitter to deliver a general announcement,…

One of the most popular historical eras covered in games, outside of World War II, is most likely the Three Kingdoms era in Chinese history. If the name doesn’t ring any bells, just think of the Dynasty Warriors games, which all focus on the wars and battles of this point in history. However, unlike those muso-style games, which involve you cutting through hundreds upon hundreds of fodder enemies in simple, but satisfying, action, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty looks like it will be a very different take on its depiction of…