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Cibele explores a place well trodden by literature, but often neglected in video games: the coming of age story about first love. A staple in English lit with titles like Alice Munro's How I Met My Husband and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams, few games explore this murky, confounding experience. And so it is that Nina Freeman's supposedly autobiographical retelling of her first romantic dalliance is a video game about a boy she once met through a video game.

Valve has been told off by the Advertising Standards Agency for erroneously "misleading" people about a discount deal concerning the mega-popular Grand Theft Auto 5.

The annual John Lewis Christmas advert has launched online today and there's an official John Lewis Christmas game to go with it.

There's a Banner Saga miniatures board game! Or at least there will be if the Kickstarter campaign, which launches next week (12th November), is a success.

Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro, the brain behind bizarre survival horror Deadly Premonition, has announced a temporary break from games development.

Gearbox's upcoming competitive first-person shooter Battleborn has been delayed until 3rd May, publisher Take-Two Interactive revealed in its latest financial report.

Ubisoft has revealed the following system requirements for the PC version of Assassin's Creed Syndicate due on 19th November:

Ubisoft has outlined its post-launch plans for Rainbow Six Siege, due 1st December on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Turn-based espionage game Invisible, Inc. is getting an all new DLC expansion entitled Contingency Plan on 12th November for PC, Mac and Linux.

Bloodborne will be receiving its much anticipated The Old Hunters expansion on 24th November, but that's not all it's getting. An upcoming patch will add all new content to the main campaign, including a new series of NPC hunters called The League.

Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power has received a new content update adding an all new level and support for Linux and SteamOS.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 contains a hidden top-down twin-stick shooter called Dead Ops Arcade 2: Cyber's Avengening.

UPDATE 5/11/15 4.00pm If there was still any doubt of a console release for Overwatch, US retailer GameStop has begun taking orders for Blizzard's shooter on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

A Witcher movie, which is nothing to do with Polish game maker CD Projekt Red, now has a global release date of 2017. It will both introduce the world of the Witcher and serve as the beginning of a series to continue in film and on TV.

Just days away from Fallout 4's release, publisher Bethesda has finally revealed a little more of the game's story.

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 will bed itself down to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 25th February 2016, EA has announced.

When Skyrim launched just shy of four years ago, it attracted a lot of people who had never touched an Elder Scrolls game before. I was one of them, in fact. Given the amount of muscle Bethesda has thrown into the marketing, it's highly likely Fallout 4 will do the same.

Should Final Fantasy 15 include moogles? Square Enix wants to hear your opinion.

When you think about it, a wrestling game represents something of a unique proposition for a developer. For the most part, it's a sports sim: the performers can be motion captured and the action digitally recreated just as you would with a football or basketball game.

The GOG Big Fall Sale - autumn sale - has begun, and again offers free games at certain spending thresholds. At £3.29 you get the revered System Shock 2; at £9.79 the solid Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena; and at £19.49 Banished (which presumably has had a lot of work done since we looked at it).

You can now dress Assassin's Creed Syndicate's leading duo in a set of steampunk clothes - but you'll also need up to 3.1GB of hard drive space for the fresh wardrobe items.

Capcom just updated the PlayStation 4 version of the Street Fighter 5 beta to add a new tutorial.

Extended gameplay footage of a dead and buried Star Wars game subtitled First Assault has appeared on the internet. This is the project abruptly canned by Disney/LucasArts in 2012. More importantly, it was to be the first game in a series that would culminate in a fully fledged Star Wars Battlefront 3.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate's launch week sales were "clearly" affected by the underwhelming Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft has admitted.

Bethesda has released its Fallout Pip-Boy app to the App Store and Google Play.

The protoss finally have their turn. Those that must construct additional pylons have waited more than five years now for their own StarCraft 2 campaign - an unfortunate side effect that comes with splitting the story across three parts. But here we are, at the very end, and that brings with it some different expectations. Not only will Legacy of the Void conclude a story that first began in 1998, but this is also Blizzard's last chance to show players what a StarCraft 2 campaign can achieve.

UPDATE 5/11/2015 12.16am: Valve's Doug Lombardi has clarified some details around the new Steam Item Store.

21 years on from the series' debut on Panasonic's 3DO, billing this latest Need for Speed as a reboot feels somewhat gratuitous. These are games that have always relied on reinventing themselves with each iteration, and just as Final Fantasy is a broad church held together by airships and chocobos, so Need for Speed is a loose collection of games only ever defined by the act of pushing fast cars to their extremes.

The Binding of Isaac's latest patch for its new DLC, Afterbirth, has nerfed a few of the game's items in a way the developer hadn't intended.

Here's a video game cross-brand promotion we didn't expect: Fallout cars in Forza.