Starlink: Battle For Atlas isn't a Star Fox game. Nintendo's furry pilot and his famous Arwing fighter are in the Switch version and - I hope you're sitting down - not in the Xbox One and PS4 versions. It isn't even fully a toys game, a la Skylanders or Disney Infinity, because it turns out you don't even need the toys. It is, I learned at E3, an interesting game.

Tendril is a studio that was hired three years ago by Ubisoft Toronto to help sell a game idea to Ubisoft's HQ in Paris. That game is Starlink, and their pitch involved all kinds of work, from "preliminary vision" through to concept development, ship design, environments and even a trailer.