After some delays, StarCraft: Mass Recall is complete and ready to play. It’s a StarCraft 2 mod remake of the original StarCraft’s campaign, expansion, demo and more. Better still, it’s compatible with the free SC2 Starter Edition, effectively making it a free game. When I last covered this and other SC2 mods, only the first three campaigns were available, with the remaining missions needing work to keep up with StarCraft 2’s mod-breaking patches. Below, a trailer comparing Blizzard’s own StarCraft: Remastered to today’s new Mass Recall. Personally, I prefer the latter.

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Apex Legends, the battle royale hit and Titanfall 2 spinoff, is kicking off its second season today. Repawn have added a new playable character — Wattson — who seems like a bright spark, a new laser rifle, and (arguably most notable) a wave of map changes. Some git’s gone and kersploded the big shield tower in the centre of the map, which has not only made a mess, but let some alien fauna in. There’s big stompy creatures that have squished parts of the map, and cheeky crate-hoarding dragons, which are like magpies if magpies stole cars. Below, some videos of the new gubbins.

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While my knowledge of Australian fauna is limited, I’m quite sure that wombats are not close to six feet tall. This makes upcoming outback life sim Dinkum and its giant fuzzy pals objectively better than reality. Due in the first half of 2020, it looks like a hybrid of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley (or Harvest Moon, for that matter) with a bit of kangaroo hunting and barbecuing. It’s the work of solo dev James Bendon, native to a quiet little corner of Australia and inspired by his travels around the vast deserts and bushlands of the country. There’s a debut trailer down under.

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Teamfight Tactics is a mode within League of Legends based on the latest trend in games, inspired by a mod called Auto Chess. It’s a kind of automated strategy game in which you place your champions before a round starts and have no direct control over how they perform while in combat. Your aim is to eliminate all seven of your opponents before your life total runs out. If you’ve played the other games in the genre (that is, Auto Chess and Dota Underlords), there are some important differences in Teamfight Tactics that you’ll need to know.

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I don t want to become known for always talking about a thing (like how we all gently rib Matt about being a philsophy-toucher in a way that doesn t amount to workplace bullying whatsoever). This is why I ve tried to stop yelling at office co-workers about Chernobyl. I don t want to be Appropriative Post-Soviet girl, who is probably the rubbishest of the X-Men characters. So my disclaimer here is: I swear I didn t know Failed State, a 2D pixely action adventure thing, was a post-Soivet post-apocalyptic game before I started playing it.

Failed State has its own disclaimer of the not-based-on-real-events-or-people variety, which is odd because it s set in a world where the planet, ravaged by technological and natural disasters, is now dealing with zombies of a mushroomy, mycelium extraction. So if you re a real life one of those, be assured that Failed State is not taking the mick out of you. Things it is>: bit survivaly, bit shooty, bit good. And about 45 minutes long.

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A fourth playable character is coming to Slay The Spire for free, developers MegaCrit Games announced today. They’ve muttered before about the possibility of adding more dungeoneers, and confirmed it today while also blasting the first update since their delightful deck-building dungeon-crawler left early access in January. My favourite Spireslayer is the Defect, the character which Mega Crit added long after the first two – and which seemed to really benefit from them getting a better idea of the shape, flow, and possibilities of Spire. I am mighty keen to see what new cards and systems they’ll throw in now.

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A lot of genres have had a resurgence over the past five years, but none more successfully than management games. There are now more ways to direct trains, lay conveyor belts, coral visitors and profit, profit, profit than you could play in a lifetime. The question is: which of these famous timesinks is worth your time, and which of the whipsmart new hires can compete against the hagard, seen-it-all old dogs?

That’s what this list is for. These are 20 best management games you can play right now on PC, in no particular order, and updated for 2019.

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Continuing to impress with a commitment to fanciness and authenticity in remaking The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as a Skyrim mod, a new Skywind trailer has drafted an actual Skyrim voice actor to natter while we see how it’s shaping up. Spears are in, levitation is go, and oh god go away cliff racers. Azura there is played by Lani Minella, whose voice spilled forth from the digifaces of Skyrim characters including The Night Mother and several Dunmer folks. Fancy! Authentic! The devs also send word that they’re now making it for the fancier Skyrim Special Edition, so it won’t hit ye olde originale Skryime.

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If you’ve ever wanted to buy a new graphics card for playing games at 2560×1440, there’s literally never been a better time to buy one. There are just so many of them! Nvidia’s RTX 2060 already does a pretty fine job of it – so much so that it’s currently my top recommendation for the best graphics card you can buy right now – and there’s also the even cheaper GTX 1660 Ti, AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 cards, too, and in less than a week we’ll have AMD’s new Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT Navi cards to pick from as well. And, of course, there’s the RTX 2070, which is even better than the RTX 2060 at 1440p gaming but is also rather expensive.

Enter Nvidia’s RTX 2070 Super card – an even faster version of the RTX 2070 for a similar-ish sort of price. Coming in at 475 / $499 at time of writing, the RTX 2070 Super promises nippier ray tracing performance and even more oomph than a GTX 1080 Ti for less than five hundred big ones. Is it truly as super as it sounds, though? Here’s wot I think.

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Just six months after the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 catapulted straight to the top of our best graphics card rankings, we’ve now got the RTX 2060 Super. As you may have already seen in my Nvidia RTX Super primer article, Nvidia’s new Super cards are sort of like their more traditional Ti variants, but also not. Instead, the best way to think of them (probably) is like supercharged ray tracing machines, giving you a bit more oomph for all that realistic lighting and shadow gubbins they’re capable of without necessarily having to resort to Nvidia’s upscaling/performance-boosting DLSS tech to make up the shortfall.

The RTX 2060 Super is, of course, more expensive than its non-Super sibling as a result, coming in at 379 / $399 as opposed to 310 / $349, but if you’ve ever wanted to a card that offers RTX 2070 levels of power without> breaking the 400 / $400 mark, this could be just the thing you’ve been looking for. Here’s wot I think.

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