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Video games can be serious business–people’s lives and livelihoods can depend on them, and they can harm or help people to a huge extent. It’s the latter effect that Ubisoft is most interested in with two of its newly announced projects. The Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and Far Cry publisher has revealed two new games–one titled Rabbids Coding and the other temporarily known as Project Oikos–focused on educating children.

The first is a Rabbids game that aims to teach kids how to code. You’re faced with puzzles based around moving in the right direction and in the right order. You might, for example, need to pick up a Rabbid on one side of the level and drop it off on the other, requiring the correctly ordered instructions for your robot player-character to make the journey. The PC game is simple, but it quickly gets more complex, all the while teaching the basics of coding syntax in a more welcoming way than simply bombarding you with lines of code. Best of all, it’s free, with a release date being announced “soon.”

Project Oikos, meanwhile, is a prototype that’s only been in development for around six months. It’s a two-player co-op title in which each player controls an animal of one of four species: a lilypad, a fish, a worm, or a bird. Together, you need to maintain the populations of each species by reproducing and eating the other species. As well as the obvious themes of ecosystems and food chains, Oikos is also a useful tool to demonstrate how working together and communicating helps make complex problems much easier to solve. Ubisoft said it’s too early to say what form Oikos will take if and when it eventually comes out, but I hope it sees a similar free release as Rabbids Coding, as it could prove to be a great learning tool.

Finally, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece mode is out now, allowing you to take an educational tour around–you guessed it–Ancient Greece. The mode allows you to wander around the game’s locations without fear of interruption from the main game’s enemies, as well as supplying actual in-game guided tours. The mode is available now as a free update on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and is also available to buy separately on PC.

Kumail Nanjiani may be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to Eternals, but after that, Marvel Studios should seriously consider teaming his character with Drax (Dave Bautista) from the Guardians of the Galaxy films. For evidence of why this needs to happen, look no further than the gag reel for their buddy cop movie Stuber, which arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on October 15 and is available digitally now.

In the reel, which you can watch above, it’s easy to see how comfortable Nanjiani and Bautista are making fun of each other. When you spend the majority of a film shoot trapped together in a small car, it shouldn’t be all that surprising that you’d bond over silly things. Seeing it play out here–and in Stuber–shows just how much funny the two of them could bring to the MCU, After all, Drax is already one of the silliest characters Marvel has given viewers yet.

In Stuber, Bautista plays a cop that catches a ride from an Uber driver named Stu (Nanjiani) that goes horribly wrong, plunging them both into the middle of a drug trafficking case.

The home release of Stuber includes the gag reel, along with a long list of other special features, including deleted scenes and audio commentary. You can take a look at the full list of special features below. Stuber is available digitally now, with the 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD versions going on sale on October 15.

Stuber on Blu-ray

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Stuber special features:

• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel
• Joke-O-Rama
• Georgia Film Works
• Audio Commentary by Michael Dowse and Kumail Nanjiani
• Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Sneak Peak

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A new month has arrived, and that means a new round of games are coming to Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft has announced a new handful of titles being added to its subscription service on Xbox One in October, and they include some great releases.

First, Arkane’s acclaimed stealth game Dishonored 2 joins the Game Pass lineup on October 3. The following week, October 10, brings two more titles: the third-person zombie shooter World War Z and the retro-style 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee.

Three more games are being added to the service on October 17. First is the charming Felix the Reaper, which joins the Game Pass library the day it launches. Rounding out that day’s additions are two backwards-compatible titles: Fallout: New Vegas and the original Xbox classic Panzer Dragoon Orta.

Those aren’t the only games coming to Game Pass this month. The Outer Worlds, the new sci-fi RPG from Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian, is also joining the service on both console and PC the day it launches, October 25, and there may yet be more Game Pass games announced partway through the month. In the meantime, you can read more about October’s new Game Pass games on the official Xbox website.

Xbox Game Pass Console Additions – October

October 3

• Dishonored 2

October 10

• World War Z
• Yooka-Laylee

October 17

• Felix the Reaper
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Panzer Dragoon Orta

October 25

• The Outer Worlds (also on PC)