Multiplayer battle arena Paragon shuts down on April 26, but its characters and environments have a chance to live on. Epic Games has released "$12 million worth" of the game's character and environment assets onto the Unreal Engine Marketplace for free.

When it comes to retro shooters, Star Wars: Dark Forces is up there with the likes of DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D. In fact, the game's engine was advanced for its time: you could look up and down and levels spanned multiple floors. Now it's getting a tribute, in the form of the first level, remade in Unreal Engine 4. And it looks hot.

I would totally be OK with Star Wars leading the charge for driving visuals forward.

Video: Childhood classics aren't the only games with fan-made re-imaginations in Unreal Engine 4. Newer ones can get one too every now and then. And Bloodborne is a fantastic-looking game that deserves an homage like this.

Duskwood, a World of Warcraft zone that almost all Alliance players visit while levelling, got the Unreal Engine treatment by Daniel L, who's slowly recreating all the classic Eastern Kingdoms zones.

Dayshot: Retro tech, abandoned coffee cups, unmade beds, monitors saying "LOST CONTACT" in all caps. Yep, that's a deserted Alien space station, alright.

Dayshot: BioShock came out nearly nine years ago and used Unreal Engine 2.5, so it's no wonder the Unreal Engine 4 project it inspired looks so sharp.

Dayshot: Run-of-the-mill room porn is one thing, but it takes something like Unreal Engine 4 to elevate it to a whole new level. This apartment might not exist, but I still really really wanna live there. Or at least go there and stare at things. Maybe take an apple. Unreal Engine 4 apples are nice.

Dayshot: Apparently, a card game session went wrong in the Lion's Pride Inn's basement and someone bled all over the place. Thankfully that doesn't tarnish the beauty of this Unreal Engine 4-World of Warcraft map too much.

Dayshot: What we've got here is a "Minecraft-Like Infinite Voxel World" built in Unreal Engine 4. In layman's terms, it's a very pretty but limited Minecraft demo running in a triple-A game engine.

Late last week, captain_slow48 posted an Unreal Engine 4 recreation of Doom's first level online. "I built this to familiarise myself with the engine," he said, adding that he tried to be "as faithful to the original aesthetic as possible." Which is exactly what happened.

Pretty sure nostalgia will hit everyone who grew up in the PS1 era and played Spyro the Dragon. IAmMurloc is working on an Unreal Engine 4 version and the first stage's already shaping up nicely.

Video: Pokémon's Kanto region is a map people like to recreate a lot in various editors because of its familiar layout and popularity. Preston Dunagan used Unreal Engine 4 for his remake.

A nine-week class project carried out by four people resulted in some cool Metal Gear Solid fanart.

He's chillin' in some winter ruins, havin' a good time.

The days of unique Star Trek simulators, based on The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine or Voyager are long over, but a superb model of the USS Enterprise from TNG, made by Jason B in Unreal Engine 4, shows how a Star Trek game like that would look today.

The flowery home of Final Fantasy VII's Aerith, a tiny, fragile island of peace in the middle of the Sector 5 Slums, now has a fan-made Unreal Engine 4 version.

Yeah, this is the same guy who also did The Temple of Time and yes, it is similarly pretty. That's Unreal Engine 4 for ya. Oh, and talent. Don't forget talent.

Dayshot: This should be familiar if you've watched basically any school anime, ever. It's an Unreal Engine 4 scene done by environment/prop artist Jason Wesner, who used both real-life and anime references while working on the project. The HD shots are below, along with a flythrough video that shows off the map really well.