The Vampire Survivors have come a long way in their honorable hunt, and after joining forces with the Belmont Family, they are the closest they've ever been!

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Image: Poncle The world of Dracula and the Belmont family is coming to Vampire Survivors. The newly announced downloadable content for the auto-shooter survival game, Ode to Castlevania, promises a bunch of new stuff: 20 characters, 40 weapons, an extra-large stage, and over 30 music tracks. Developer Poncle said in its announcement post on X that the $3.99 expansion should contain more than 10 hours worth of gameplay — though it’s not clear if there will actually be any vampires in the game (I’m still betting there won’t be). The new Vampire Survivors DLC is set to launch on October 31st on the PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, Android, and iOS. You can also track its release with a cheesy, ‘90s-era countdown timer site set up by the developer.... Continue reading…

Alarming information about the frequency of antiquities fraud has been revealed by a new study that shows a collection of Iranian Iron Age bronze swords recently smuggled into England were not what they appeared to be. It seems the weapons had been tampered with, to make it appear they’d been recovered intact when this was not the case. Even their identification as bronze weapons was false, as they were originally constructed from iron, or from a combination of iron and other metals. In the words of the researchers involved in the new study, the allegedly intact swords were actually “pastiches,” which means they were essentially cut and pasted together from assorted metal parts. They were created by modern antiquities hucksters attempting to fool dealers and collectors of illegal antiquities, knowing that these individuals would unwittingly pay a high price for fake artifacts. To determine the truth, the scientists involved in this study used a technique known as neutron tomography to examine the illegally smuggled swords closely. With the images they obtained, it quickly became clear that the Iron Age swords were forgeries. “While bladed weapons were no doubt repaired in antiquity, numerous features indicate that the modifications identified in this assemblage are modern attempts to increase the marketability of these objects,” the study authors wrote in an article just published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient TechnologyNewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later 

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a bid by Michael Cohen to revive a lawsuit accusing Donald Trump and various former federal officials of returning him to prison in 2020 in retaliation for writing a book critical of Trump.

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