It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination.

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.

I was blown away to later learn that the nuclear disaster portrayed in the game was based on an actual event in British history, the 1957 fire at the Windscale Power Plant.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atomfall isn't the kind of game to put 50 to 100 hours into in a single playthrough to get everything done. Even if you try to attempt everything and take it slow, 30 hours still feels like an ...

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.

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 ...