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UPDATE 25/06 10.15AM BST: I've spoken to developer Switchblade Monkeys and the release of Secret Ponchos on PS4 has been pushed back to the autumn.

Focus Home Interactive has launched first-person on-rails shooter Blue Estate on PlayStation 4. Surprise!

Games, as a medium, allow us to experience things we don't get to in our everyday lives. Often these are empowering fantasies like saving the world and fighting monsters. Sometimes they're more abstract adventures like trotting through majestic, magical landscapes as in Journey. And occasionally these are dis-empowering satirical situations as we saw in games like Papers, Please or The Stanley Parable. While the medium excels at showing us a life we'll never lead, indie developers Alexander Holowka and Scott Benson's upcoming adventure, Night in the Woods, reflects a slice of life most of us have led: that of a wayward 20 year old.

Oculus has bought the company that designed the Xbox 360 controller, it has announced.

Respawn has detailed the latest update for first-person shooter Titanfall, which adds new features, bug fixes and balance tweaks.

Before war photographers came war artists - dashing, romantic figures like Constantin Guys (his full name, irresistibly, seems to have been Ernest-Adolphe-Hyacinthe-Constantin Guys) who captured the murderous chaos of conflict in Crimea with a few deft swipes of the pen, and who brought the hidden realities of a distant war home to western audiences in a manner that people could at least hope to understand emotionally as well as intellectually.

Sony has revealed new details on Batman: Arkham Knight's PlayStation 4-exclusive content, the Scarecrow Nightmare Pack.

Metro Redux launches on 29th August 2014 in Europe and 26th August in the US fro PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Deep Silver has announced.

Four days before the centenary of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Ubisoft is revealing its interactive tribute to the soldiers of the First World War with Valiant Hearts. Utilising the same UbiArt engine behind the shockingly beautiful recent Rayman games as well as Child of Light, it's a touching blend of puzzles and adventure, with a dog thrown in for good measure. There'll be more details on what we thought when our review goes live at 5pm BST.

There are fresh concerns over the fate of upcoming shooter Homefront: The Revolution amid the ongoing problems at Crytek.

Who knew a camera angle could cause so much consternation? When Grid 2 was first unveiled, the noise wasn't about Codemasters' bold decision to do away with driving assists, its introduction of point-to-point road races or its globe-trotting storyline; the focus, instead, was placed fierily on the lack of an in-car cockpit view.

Codemasters has made the HD texture pack for the PC version of racing game Grid Autosport its first piece of downloadable content.

Battlefield fans have long called for another Bad Company game. In fact, before this year's Battlefield game was announced, some had hoped it would turn out to be Bad Company 3, not Battlefield Hardline.

Completely surrounded, with German tanks pressing their advantage against the last of my bazooka-wielding riflemen, I figured I'd lost. I was seconds from defeat. Then I saw an opening: a narrow path that looked relatively unguarded. So I used a few rounds of covering artillery fire, forcing the tanks to back off for a few seconds, allowing a quick opening for the last of my infantrymen. After a few minutes of rapid movement and harassing my opponent's tanks, I had managed to largely immobilise them and quickly capture the strategic points I needed to reinforce my position and push the last of the German forces out of the fields of France.

Bungie is confident shared-world shooter Destiny will run smoothly at launch.

Leaked images have revealed new details on The Curse of Naxxramas, the first expansion for Blizzard's collectable card battler Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

The UK games industry hosted more developers in 2013 than it did the previous year, a new report by TIGA has revealed.

Open-world action game Far Cry 3 was treasured by many, including Eurogamer's Tom Bramwell, who fell in love with its meticulously constructed open world and the interplay of systems within it, awarding it 10/10 in our Far Cry 3 review. But there were also other takes on it. Some players even felt the game's story of a white guy saving darker-skinned island natives was vaguely racist or at least racially insensitive. Now, Far Cry 4's cover depicting a blond man in a magenta suit terrorising an ethnically ambiguous fellow holding a cocked grenade has stirred up its own storm for its various interpretations.

The depth of military simulation Arma 3 both keeps people playing and puts people off. Bohemia's free Bootcamp update aims to address the latter issue.

Square Enix has added new and improved cheats to the PC version of Final Fantasy 8.

Microsoft has doubled the amount of OneDrive cloud storage available to all users - it's now 15GB, up from 7GB.

Ubisoft has confirmed the recently-leaked Assassin's Creed: Unity with a short teaser of stunning in-game footage.

Assassin's Creed: Unity will launch worldwide on 28th October, Ubisoft has announced.

So, new comments from Assassin's Creed Unity's creative director Alex Amancio at E3 help us to disentangle the situation around Ubisoft Montreal's removal of female avatars from the game, although whether it's a satisfactory response is another matter.

UPDATE: A petition has sprung up in response to there not being a female playable character option in Assassin's Creed Unity. It also questions the game's lack of varied ethnicity. It has over 2500 signatures so far.

When CD Projekt executive producer John Mamais told Eurogamer at E3 that The Witcher 3 would feature more realistic fur when played on PC with ultra settings enabled, he wasn't kidding.

Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata will not attend the company's annual general meeting of shareholders this month as he is recovering from major surgery.

Ubisoft has quietly announced the next game in strategy series The Settlers: Kingdoms of Anteria.

The Last Guardian has been MIA so long that a couple of its artists have gone rogue, opting to join their pals in forming the new indie outfit Friend & Foe. Here, the five-person team has revealed its first project: a Shadow of the Colossus-looking open-world fantasy adventure called Vane.

First-person cat-sim Catlateral Damage is now on Kickstarter where it's a whisker's length from its $40K goal at $36,912. With 17 days to go before its 11th July deadline, it's as good as funded.