Atlas Fallen

While Starfield does have an exclusive partnership with AMD, this doesn’t mean the Bethesda RPG is totally devoid of official support from the likes of Nvidia and Intel. Those hoping to play on a GeForce graphics card will be delighted to hear that not only is there a Game Ready driver for Starfield, it’s also available right now.

Starfield is nearly here, and plenty of players are getting ready to take off into its vast galaxies and enjoy what the game has to offer. Amid their excitement, players have taken a moment to remember Alex Hay, a fan who lost his battle with lung cancer before getting a chance to play the game.

After more than a decade in the development wilderness, Alan Wake 2 is finally (almost) ready for its closeup. So it’s fitting when we visit Helsinki to talk to the team making it that we start in a performance-capture studio. Here, we get to see Ilkka Villi (the face and body of the game’s protagonist) at work, as he makes an appearance on a late-night chat show. Meanwhile, we talk to Matthew Porretta, who supplies Wake’s voice. “This would never be done this way now, right?” Porretta says. “The person who mocaps it would voice it.”

Time was that pretty much nobody would dare to release a game in August, but these days we regularly have developers both big and small looking to get out ahead of the autumn and Christmas rush. This week in particular, there’s Atlas Fallen from Deck13 the makers of The Surge. So how has it fared? Scroll on for our weekly video games round-up.

Atlas Fallen, a recently released title, has an optimization issue with Intel Hybrid CPUs (12th Gen and above), leading to severely degraded performance.

We have seen the sun! And it was good! It’s going away now though so you can all retreat into the safety of your gaming rooms again. We’ve also been looking at our Gamescom appointments for a couple of week’s time, and things are looking very exciting! You can be sure that we’ll have a ton of coverage from the conference, so that’s something to look forward to as well.

Sometimes it’s best to simply start over and try again, taking all the experience and knowledge from a first attempt and feeding it into a better second effort. Lords of the Fallen is a multi-faceted example of exactly this. The original game’s developers went off to create a different Souls-like series, while publisher CI Games held onto this IP, restarting development multiple times before founding new developer Hexworks in 2020. Despite this being Hexworks’ first game, it feels like a well-rounded and considered effort at a thoroughly modern Souls-like.

Surfing the sands of Atlas Fallen can be a daunting task when you first start playing. The dunes are harsh, and the sun god’s wrath can be difficult to overcome. To help you with your adventure, we’ve put together 7 beginner tips for challenging Thelos in Atlas Fallen.

Are you looking for all Refined Air Dash shard locations in Atlas Fallen so you can upgrade your dash to have three charges? To upgrade your dash ability to have three charges, you must find all Refined Dash shard locations in Atlas Fallen and complete the Reforging the Gauntlet quest. However, the locations of each Refined Aird Dash shard are not mapped on location, making them difficult to find. Here is an easy-to-follow guide on all Refined Air Dash shard locations in Atlas Fallen.

Atlas Fallen is a new action-adventure from The Surge and Lords of the Fallen creators Deck13, and like a lot of games in the genre, it’s packed with various things you’ll need to collect to upgrade your character. Essence Stones, crafting materials, regular currency to spend at vendors, ect. Most of this stuff actually isn’t too difficult to come by, but there is one resource you’ll always be short of – Essence Dust. This is used to upgrade your armor, Essence Stone capacity, and more, essentially acting as a form of XP, and the game doesn’t make it terribly clear how you should go about getting it. Well, that’s where we come in! If you’re in need of some quick Essence Dust to upgrade your character before a tough challenge, these are the best ways to stock up…

Deck13’s latest action RPG Atlas Fallen is available now on Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC. While the developer is typically known for Souls-like titles likeThe Surge, this is an action-adventure title set in a fantasy world full of sand. Check out the launch trailer below.

If you’re coming to Atlas Fallen expecting Deck13 to have continued down the souls-like path of their The Surge series, prepare to be surprised. Atlas Fallen does have some similarities to their previous work – you can target and destroy specific enemy body parts in combat – but is otherwise is a bit of a departure, focused more on spectacular fights against giant monsters with a huge axe than it is on careful, measured combat. It’s more Darksiders than it is Dark Souls, basically, but with weapons that get bigger the longer you use them.