The fire began on October 10, 1957, in No 1 of the twin 'piles', or reactors, at Windscale. It burned for 50 hours before being discovered and took three days to bring under control.

Initially, I didn't have Atomfall pegged as one of my must-play games and yet, when it launched, something about the action-packed gameplay trailers spoke ...

The fire began on October 10, 1957, in No 1 of the twin 'piles', or reactors, at Windscale. It burned for 50 hours before being discovered and took three days to bring under control.

A fire ripped through the radioactive materials in the core of Windscale, Britain's first nuclear reactor. Tom Tuohy, the deputy general manager at the site, led the team faced with dealing with a ...

Atomfall takes inspiration from the 1957 Windscale fire, the worst nuclear disaster in British history. Between esoteric cults and rogue government agencies, this unlikely quarantine zone in the ...

Atomfall is Stalker by way of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. It's an alt-history retelling of the aftermath of the Windscale fire—the largest nuclear accident in the UK's history. Set five ...

Reimagining the Windscale Fires. Rebellion’s Head of Design Ben Fisher tells Digital Trends that the idea for Atomfall emerged from the studio’s co-founder Jason Kingsley, who “noticed that ...

Although the Windscale fire was "very serious", Jason says it's not something that is especially well-remembered, even among locals. It was previously estimated about 240 cases of cancer were ...

The role-playing game Atomfall is based on the 1957 Windscale fire, which affected one of the two nuclear reactors in the Cumberland area of northwestern England.

Developed by Sniper Elite studio Rebellion, Atomfall is a singleplayer "survival-action game" set in the fictionalized aftermath of a real-world nuclear catastrophe—in this case the Windscale ...

Rebellion Xbox isn’t letting March run out without giving Game Pass subscribers one last batch of titles fresh to the service. April will be a huge month for upcoming Xbox Series X games ...