Gaming

Belgium captain Kevin de Bruyne has asked for time off from the national team as the Manchester City playmaker looks to manage his playing time.

The 33-year-old has missed City's past four fixtures after sustaining a thigh injury in September's 0-0 draw against Inter Milan in the Champions League.

De Bruyne, who is on course to return to action in mid-October, was set to be left out of Belgium's Nations League squad for matches against Italy and France later this month through injury.

High-profile YouTube stars KSI and the Sidemen have been named alongside the creators of Candy Crush, Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto as some of the richest gamers and creators in the UK.

Taking the top spot of the Sunday Times' inaugural top 30 Gaming Rich List are co-founders of Playrix, Igor and Dmitry Bukhman.

The brothers, with a combined fortune of £12.54bn, are behind titles like Township, Fishdom and Homescapes. KSI and the Sidemen are the highest placed gamers, coming in joint 21st with £50m.

Performers working in the games industry have spoken of their distress at being asked to work on explicit content without notice, including a scene featuring a sexual assault.

Sex scenes are common in modern games - and are often made by filming human actors who are then digitised into game characters.

But performers have told the BBC a culture of secrecy around projects - where scripts are often not shared until the last moment - means they frequently do not know in advance that scenes may involve intimate acts.

Fans of Civilization have been waiting almost a decade for the latest instalment of the cult video game series.

Now it has been revealed that theme of time passing is pretty appropriate: the inspiration at the heart of Civilization VII, to be released in February, is how the capital of the UK has changed from the Roman era to now.

And it all started with a map of Londinium - as London was known to the Romans.