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It’s a beautiful day in the badlands, with the sun shining down on you unprotected in the wilderness, surrounded by horrible creatures and with only a few dozen bullets left before you are completely defenseless. What’s not to be thankful for? Fallen Earth might not seem like the most appropriate setting for a Thanksgiving celebration, but the game recently held a screenshot contest for either what the player’s character is thankful for or a “traditional” celebration in the wasteland. Yesterday, the winners were announced, with the top entries all receiving special in-game food that offers buffs and the essential proper nutrition for surviving the hostile environment. The first-place winner also receives a Fallen Earth t-shirt.

A small gallery is also available, with the three winners and the honorable mention available for viewing. It’s not every game where appropriate holiday celebration includes heavily-armed men standing on a farm surrounded by corpses, but it works for Fallen Earth and should provide the game’s players with some appropriate chuckles. Or, given the context, perhaps “inappropriate” is more apt.

Filed under: Sci-fi, Screenshots, Fallen Earth, Contests, Culture, Events, real-world

Fallen Earth screenshot contest winners announced originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Eliot Lefebvre
Filed Under: contests, culture, fallen-earth, fallen-earth-llc, fe, holiday, real-world-events, screenshot, screenshots, thanksgiving-2009

Wake up, grab a quick bite of something that isn’t too tainted, clean up a bit, toss on your gear and ride. It’s another day in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallen Earth, where players have to work hard to survive. You can scavenge and find items to create things you need or want, trade others for things you’ve made, fight for whatever cause your character feels is right, or so much more. Today’s great Fallen Earth screenshot comes to us from Shrike Song of The Older Gamers clan (or TOG as they’re known) who writes in: My junkyard scavenger Shrike Song looking for the scrap lottery in every junk pile and scrapped car she can find. With the ruins of freeway overpasses in the background and a rusted T bird as a resting and scouting perch, no wonder that scavengers like her love their trusty horses so much. Hopefully that car netted you a bunch of fasteners!

Are you playing a niche game that you love and want to show off to the world? If so, why not take a moment and send us your image and thoughts! We’ll be glad to post them. Email it to oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name, the name of the game, and a quick description. We’ll post it out here and give you the credit for sending it in.

Filed under: Sci-fi, Screenshots, Fallen Earth, One Shots

One Shots: Happy scavenging! originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Krystalle Voecks
Filed Under: fallen-earth, fallen-earth-llc, icarus-studios, one-shots, screenshot, screenshots, shrike-song

It’s always nice to get a little something extra for what you were planning on doing anyway. It’s even nicer when the “little something extra” is something you would want on its own merits, at that. Fallen Earth has decided to give its new players exactly that variety of something extra: if you buy now through the official site, you will receive the lovely and (dare we say it) eminently pimptacular hat displayed to the right.

The hat isn’t enough reason for you? Well, clearly you aren’t looking closely enough at the hat itself. You also might not know that the hat provides your character with Scavenging, Nature, Geology, and Social skill points just by donning it. It’s a really nice hat. Lest we get carried away by gushing about the hat, however, it should be duly noted that the hat is also a limited-time offer for purchasers of the game, and is only being distributed by purchasing the game from the official site. So if you’ve been on the fence, this might be the time to get off the fence and get yourself a truly excellent hat for your troubles.

Filed under: Sci-fi, Fallen Earth, Business models, News items

Fallen Earth puts a feather in your hat for purchasing originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 17th, 2009 at 8:00pm by Eliot Lefebvre
Filed Under: Bonus, business-models, fallen-earth, fallen-earth-llc, fe, hat, hats, news-items, order-bonus

If you picked up a Fallen Earth trial key in the recent batch and found yourself falling in love with the barren wastelands of the post-apocalyptic Grand Canyon, then you’ll want to listen up. For those of you who decide to make the jump and subscribe to the game by tonight (10/30) at midnight Eastern, you can land yourself a swanky, special-edition Trooper gas mask, as seen to the right. (For those of you who are already subscribed, you’ll get this in the mail tomorrow!)

Why is this so cool, you ask? Well dustbowlers, this is the absolute must-have fashion accessory of the season – especially when you live in an irradiated, disease-ridden desert. This mask will give you a plethora of bonuses to armor against everything from acid to sonic attacks. In addition to that, it also adds +5 to your Charisma with its rubbery good looks and +6 to a body save since it’s such a pain in the arse to hack through this thing and splatter your brains everywhere. So if you’ve been thinking about subscribing, now is a great time to join those of us who call the barren wastes of Fallen Earth home!

Filed under: Sci-fi, Fallen Earth, New titles, News items

Subscribe to Fallen Earth by tonight and get an exclusive Trooper gas mask originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 3:30pm by Krystalle Voecks
Filed Under: fallen-earth, fallen-earth-llc, fe, halloween-2009, icarus-studios, special-item, troopers-gas-mask

The apocalypse: place of beat up armor and scavenged and repurposed items galore. While this means you’re in great luck for making an outfit in-game, it makes things a bit more difficult when it comes to making a Fallen Earth costume in the real world. Do you stay true to the game and only use things that look the same as existing gear? Or do you get creative in your costume scavenging and let your imagination run wild? Well, this year it would appear that the entries for the second annual Fallen Earth costume contest did both.

The three categories awarded for this year’s contest winners were Most Original Setting, Most Accurate Game Costume, and Best Inside Joke on Scavenging, which went to Sinoth, blackenedlegions, and spookdi respectively. There were also four honorable mentions (faust, Schipperke, Beorend, jac428) and a shout out to one of our staffers who sent in a costume too. Be sure to go check out the gallery of winners for some pretty cool post-apocalyptic costumes!

Filed under: Sci-fi, Fallen Earth, Contests, News items

Fallen Earth costume contest winners announced originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on October 29th, 2009 at 9:00pm by Krystalle Voecks
Filed Under: costume-contest, fallen-earth, fallen-earth-llc, fe, halloween, halloween-2009, halloween-costumes, icarus-studios