When 3D engines started becoming more prevalent in the mid-90s, a feature that should have taken off way more than it did was the idea of switching from a top-down management/building game, to a first-person view where you could tour your work at ground level. 1997 s Dungeon Keeper is probably the best example of this, with its charming possession feature, but to me, 1996 s SimCopter did something even more extraordinary.

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The tiny superhero game developed by Platinum Games for the Wii U back in 2013 is getting a remaster. It will be coming to the Nintendo Switch, of course, but Platinum aren’t working with Nintendo as a publisher this time around so they’ve taken to crowdfunding to get The Wonderful 101: Remastered made and have opened up the possibility for bringing the new version to new systems as well.

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Necronator: Dead Wrong is a little RTS on rails with a healthy heap of deck-building on the side. Eat your strategy vegetables! The developers at Toge Productions (who also just released Coffee Talk) have debuted a new trailer for the evil RTS before it his early access this month.

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Netflix’s own Witcher TV show is, as we know, based on ye olde novels by Andrzej Sapkowski and not the RPG trilogy by CD Project Red. But we’ve all seen the bathtub scene, yeah? So we know there’s some of the video game DNA in the small screen version of Geralt’s adventures if you know where to look. Showrunner Lauren Hissrich says that it’s not just the White Wolf’s thorough washing that came from the games. The Witcher 3‘s beautiful visuals were an inspiration as well.

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Apex Legends Season 4 begins tomorrow, bringing all the usual suspects: a new weapon, new battle pass, and a new ranked series. Oh yeah, and also that new Legend that we spent the past week banging on about. Robot man Revenant is headed to the Apex Games and the World’s Edge map is getting a bit of a makeover as well.

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Temtem’s Courses, or TCs as they are also known, are how you teach moves to your Temtem that they cannot normally learn. They can be used multiple times on any compatible Temtem, but there is only one copy of each of them in the game. Some are found in specific areas, while others are rewards for completing quests.

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Legends of Runeterra has been introducing a whole bunch of new concepts in the Collectible Card Game (CCG) scene, ever since Riot opened the doors to the public for Runeterra’s open beta. There’s a lot of things to learn about the game, even if you’re a Magic the Gathering veteran or have sunk many hours into Hearthstone.

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Dark Souls modders are forged in the flames of adversity. While mostly limited to technical improvements (such as Durante’s fixes for the wonky original PC port) and small texture packs, the past few years have brought about a whole new genre of Souls mods for all three games. While limited in what can be added to the trilogy (though breakthroughs are being made on that front, too), it turns out that by creatively rearranging what’s already there, you can get what feels almost like a new game. Today, we take a peek at a bundle of B-Side adventures across the entire series.

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Early access Pokemon-like MMO Temtem is battling through the rough waters that come with an online game release. The indie creature catching game overcame long login queues during its launch week. The next problem stepping onto the battlefield is a standard one for MMOs: cheaters and exploits. Crema said today that they’ve identified and banned 900 accounts that are “either a cheater or has abused exploits intentionally.”

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I adore Kentucky Route Zero. Likewise, I adore the pieces on this site that discuss it. Alec’s review in particular is incredibly articulate, goes into a lot of depth, and comes from a place of passion for the game. The discussion of Kentucky Route Zero generally, however, can be somewhat overwhelming to trawl through as a newcomer, and in order to fully take in much of what Alec Meer and others have written about Cardboard Computer s point-and-click interactive fiction, you d have to pour yourself a cup of relaxing peppermint tea and set aside a whole day of reading, like I did.

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