As its name implies, the focus of Second Chances is on successfully integrating inmates back in to society once their sentence is complete - which can be achieved by taking advantage of various new rehabilitation tools and programmes, each with their own benefits. Successful rehabilitation is a bit of a multi-pronged endeavour, but one significant aspect comes in the form of work experience. Second Chances lets players assign inmates to different jobs around prison - catering to members of the public in the new bakery and restaurant rooms, for instance - with the goal being to give offenders a sense of purpose and increase their chances of getting work once released, in turn reducing their chances of reoffending....

Now after nearly two years, PS5 restocks have been happening more frequently, as you can see in our PS5 stock tracker page that we update daily. The consoles, however, sell out very quickly once they do go up so you still have to set up alerts and follow accounts to avoid missing out one. These aren’t ideal measures, but it’s a lot better than before. US shoppers can use request and invitation to buy a PS5 disc console as well, here....

If Modern Warfare and Battlefield are about making opportunities and then taking shots, Quake Arena Arcade is about the science of expectation. It’s a machine gun volley of estimation challenges, designed to test your foresight. Here, accuracy is only the second most important skill after twitch prophecy, and as a result, the game offers thrills of a different character to the modern FPS. The purity of Quake Arena is reflected in its minimalist environments, the designers limiting decorative flourish to steel-riveted door frames and skirting boards imprinted with skulls....

id Software and Just Cause developer Avalanche Studio’s fun but underloved sequel will be available to claim from 18th to 25th February, the same dates as top-down indie racer Absolute Drift. Rage 2 has racing of a different kind, with Mad Max style road combat and shooting. The game’s gunplay earned itself points in Eurogamer’s Rage 2 review, though Vikki Blake wrote that its open-world setting ended up letting the rest of it down....

As spotted by our pals at VG24/7, the animated film - which has been made by Mainframe, the team behind the 2016 R&C feature film - released with no prior press fanfare. Most fans only learned of the movie when curious Redditors created a thread about the project. Sadly, you can’t access Crave TV outside of Canada for now without a VPN, but there are dodgy copies on the internet if you’re quick and You know where to Tube things....

We’ve all seen the trailers, right? Beyond the beautiful, dense visuals, the fast SSD allows seamless transitions between completely different worlds - a signature gameplay feature of the new game, while saturating the GPU with an astonishing level of detail. RDNA 2’s ray tracing features are also deployed, with beautiful high resolution reflection work. Well, the good news is that the final game is actually better than the trailers. In fact, we were surprised to see that the day one patch - which actually ‘dropped’ last Saturday - actually improved quality still further....

Here’s the full list of camp upgrades and how to get them, as well as how to get those all-important Leather Working Tools to start getting the best items. On this page: For more help, our Red Dead Redemption 2 walkthrough explains the requirements for fully completing the game’s many story missions. From Pearson, the camp cook, who can unlock a variety of cosmetic upgrades across the camp by donating items - mostly perfect pelts, hides and skins....

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz as part of his book tour, Fils-Aimé argues that the games industry is “woefully behind” in embracing diversity. “You don’t see it in the executive ranks, you don’t see it in the leadership ranks of key developers. It’s incredibly difficult to find it in various games,” he points out. “For me as a Black man with my particular skin tone, hair, curls and everything else, it’s difficult to make a character look like me, and it shouldn’t be....

It comes fairly early on in the game, but can only be done if you’ve caught a Mr. Mime already and also completed Request 14: Berry Helpful. It’ll also be with Andra again, who thanks you for your Oran Berries, but has a new request regarding a Mr. Mime that is making mischief. On this page: Once you’ve collected the quest from the blackboard in Professor Laventon’s office, you’ll need to actually go and find Andra....

Numbered Request 41, you’re tasked with catching a Pokémon with a very special tail for a member of Jubilife Village. For completing this Request, you’ll earn a nice reward and it will be ticked off your Request menu. On this page: If you’d like to learn more about the game, visit our Pokémon Legends: Arceus walkthrough. Asabei wants you to catch a Pokémon he saw a glimpse of from behind some rocks....

Though the former is eventually explained by finding Files and through other observations, the Portable Safe puzzle is unlike anything else in the game - and requires you to learn how it works due to its random nature. The good news is you don’t need to find their clues, so you can open them as soon as you find them - and with some welcome inventory and weapon upgrades at stake, you’ll want to....

“Oculus Studios, Armature, and Capcom partnered closely to remaster Resident Evil 4 from the ground up for VR,” a Facebook spokesperson told Eurogamer today. “This includes immersive environments and high-resolution graphics. It also includes select changes to in-game dialogue and animations that we believe will update Resident Evil 4 for a modern audience.” Eurogamer also understands that the animation which played when players attempted to look up Ashley’s skirt in the original game has also been removed....

“Hard to write this best so I’ve decided to keep it simple: Thank you everyone at Capcom for allowing me to grow together with you over the past 13 years,” they explained in a tweet over the weekend. “I’m thankful and will cherish the experience forever. “Thanks to everyone both in and outside the studio that have supported me over the years.” That said, Fabiano isn’t leaving the industry entirely....

“I’m shutting down comments. People are just being mean and I’m having to delete personal attack comments,” Gilbert wrote. He went on to defend the upcoming release of Return to Monkey Island, Gilbert’s first return to the series since 1991’s LeChuck’s Revenge. “It’s an amazing game and everyone on the team is very proud of it. Play it or don’t play it but don’t ruin it for everyone else,” he said....

“New surveillance video for #MonkeyIslandMonday!,” tweeted developer Dave Grossman. “Strange man seen striding purposefully on Melee dock, ignoring the pelicans and bar as though he had somewhere to be, some devilish puzzle to solve…” That strange man is, of course, none other than series hero Guybrush Threepwood. Can you believe he passed up the opportunity to quench his thirst with a healthy pint of grog? Something must be afoot. A previous Monkey Island Monday tweet also gave a preview of the game’s first chapter....

American adult-oriented nighttime cable television channel Adult Swim shared the new ad on its Rick and Morty social feeds. The clip shows eccentric scientist Rick shaving his head and branding himself with Kratos’ iconic red facial tattoo. He then proceeds to hand his grandson Morty a toy bow and arrow, before shoving him through a portal to the Nine Realms. Here, Rick gets his hands on Kratos’ Leviathan Axe and “other unannounced upgrades” as Morty tries to fend for himself (rather unsuccessfully) in the hostile world he suddenly finds himself in....

Survivors of the Void brings a significant heft of new content to Risk of Rain 2 - ranging from new bosses and enemies to new items and stages - but the unifying theme (as its name does rather suggest) is The Void. The gateway to this mysterious realm has opened, spilling its innards all over Petrichor V. “For millennia, The Void Creatures have grown dominant by taking artifacts from our realm to theirs,” Hopoo explains....

A new “Video Quality” setting within the Video Settings menu lets players select Quality or Performance modes. Quality mode enables 4K resolution at 60fps with HDR. HDR requires an HDR10-compatible display and HDMI 2.0 cable or better, and you’ll need a 4K capable display to experience 4K. If you use a 1080p display in this mode, Rocket League renders at 1080p supersampled from 4K. Performance mode, on the other hand, runs Rocket League at 2688x1512 resolution (70 percent of full 4K) at 120fps with HDR....

No wonder certain games love books so much. In the past few years we’ve had Trials of Fire, a sublime turn-based battler that uses a book for just about everything, and here’s Roguebook, freshly released on consoles, in which the whole adventure plays out with a bunch of heroes trapped in a book. I have spent a few mornings with Roguebook and I don’t particularly want to escape. This is a collaboration between the people who made the digital card game Faeria and Richard Garfield, of Magic: The Gathering....

Industry insider Emily Rogers - who has previously shared Nintendo leaks that later proved to be true - believes an as-yet-unannounced Fire Emblem game is not only in development at Intelligent Systems, but they also believe it’s “nearly finished with its development” and may be out as early as October this year. ​​“Will it be an October 2022 release or an early 2023 release (February/March)?” Rogers wrote on Famiboards.com (thanks, VGC)....