Anyone that has heard the familiar “plink, plink” of turtles dropping into the water from a basking log at the edge of a pond knows that these quiet reptiles had been soaking up the sun’s warmth.

There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? Games I Didn’t Touch: I saw the fall line-ups for a trio of ...