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This Lenovo Chair Includes A Katana

We’ve all been there: You’re playing your favorite PC game and a ninja emerges from the darkness to strike you down with a single blow. Lenovo has the solution for that with a very-limited katana-equipped gaming chair. No longer will you have to worry, as you’ll be able to parry your attacker while getting Play of the Game as Winston.

Only available to five lucky people in a drawing through Lenovo in Japan, the “Devil’s Blade” chair features a replica katana along with a sheath, as well as a backing design based on the anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. It’s a customized version of an existing chair and Lenovo doesn’t have any plans to sell it once the giveaway has completed. That’s probably for the best, lest too many people become katana masters.

“While you played Overwatch, I studied the blade.” It has a nice ring to it.

In actuality, the sword can’t be pulled out of its slot on the side of the chair, so it’s purely for looks. Because it sticks up near the armrest, there is also a chance it could get in the way of your own arms while you’re trying to game. Based on the wording of the requirements, it looks like you also have to actually live in Japan in order to qualify.

If you’re looking for a gaming chair that might be a little more functional, if less deadly, check out or picks for the best gaming chairs of 2021. These include chairs designed specifically for gaming in a variety of form factors–even a bean bag chair.

Firearms Expert Reacts To Resident Evil 4’s Guns

Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of Resident Evil 4, including the powerful Striker shotgun, the distinctive Red 9 pistol, and the ridiculous Infinite Rocket Launcher.

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Resident Evil 4 saw Capcom’s horror franchise venture into the action genre for the first time and gave players access to an arsenal of unique weapons, including the TMP submachine gun, the H&K VP70M handgun, and the Thompson M1A1, known in-game as the Chicago Typewriter.

In the latest video in the Firearm Expert Reacts series , Jonathan Ferguson–a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries–breaks down the guns of Resident Evil 4, and compares them to their real-life counterparts.

If you’re interested in seeing more of Jonathan’s work, you can check out more from the Royal Armouries right here. –https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalArmouries

If you would like to support the Royal Armouries, you can make a charitable donation to the museum here. –https://royalarmouries.org/support-us/donations/

And if you would like to become a member of the Royal Armouries, you can get a membership here. –https://royalarmouries.org/support-us/membership/

You can purchase Jonathan’s book here – https://www.headstamppublishing.com/bullpup-rifle-book

Call Of Duty Drops R1 Shadowhunter After Accidental Release, Refunds Being Issued

The R1 Shadowhunter weapon released a few days ago in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Warzone, but this was accidental. Now, Activision has removed the weapon from both games and it’s issuing refunds to those who grabbed it during this brief period.

Activision shared the news on its official support Twitter page, saying the bundle that included the weapon will be returned to the store at “a later date,” along with an associated challenge. Just when this will be isn’t clear, so it’s possible the weapon went online well before it was supposed to.

Prior to it being removed, the weapon was available for stealth-minded players. It fired silent crossbow bolts, letting you take out targets without alerting others in the area. This would be especially useful in Warzone, where alerting others to your position is often the difference between life and death. Getting the weapon in Cold War, at least during the initial accidental release, was possible by getting a series of the One Shot, One Kill in 15 games, so players who have been playing for months will likely be able to get it fairly quickly when it comes back.

Plenty of new content did come to the game on purpose recently. A recent update added several different weapon bundles, and an assault rifle that appears to have a dragon spitting out a gun barrel will be live tomorrow, March 21. Zombies continue to spread across Verdansk in Warzone, as well, adding another wrinkle to the game’s ever-changing story. It hasn’t gotten as goofy as something like Fortnite, but the developers certainly seem committed to keeping the battle royale game fresh.

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Has Items Removed, Quests Disabled To Temporarily Fix Crashing

Ubisoft isn’t ready to roll out a permanent fix for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s crashing issues yet, but the development team does have a temporary solution. A new hotfix removes certain items and features from the game, which should let you experience Ravensthorpe without getting “desynchronized.”

Settlement decorations appear to be behind the crashes, so those have been removed from the game, as have quests for the Ostara Festival that involve those items. Once the permanent fix is out, these should be back in the game, but you’ll have to wait a bit. Ubisoft set a window of “sometime next week” for the larger, permanent fix.

It’s an issue that has only been in the game for a brief period–at least to this degree–so if you’ve taken more than a few days off from playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, you likely haven’t even noticed it. Prior to this, the game did have some technical issues, like characters’ mouths not moving when they spoke or legs not moving when they ran, but crashing seemed to be relatively infrequent. In my own experience, I had one crash in more than 50 hours, and it came as I tried to fast travel away from Ravensthorpe.

However, Ubisoft has still been criticized for how many microtransactions there are in the game, as well as their cost. Bug fixes have been coming more recently, as well, but there are some that seem to persist. At least on PS5, split-second hitching happens fairly frequently.

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American Horror Story Season 10 Official Title Reaction & Updates

Ryan Murphy finally revealed the official name for American Horror Story Season 10: Double Feature. According to the reveal, we’ll be getting two horrifying stories in one season – one by the sea, and one by the sand. Our very own Ryan and Greg react to the AHS 10 title, make predictions and theories based on it, and give updates on production and the cast of the upcoming season!

Superman’s Son Would Become Batman In Justice League Sequel, Snyder Says

At one point, the movie that would become Zack Snyder’s Justice League was set to be the start of a trilogy with all kinds of spin-off movies. Things have changed since then, with Snyder saying he’s not looking to do comic book movies again, but the director had the rough sketches laid out. One of the strangest twists would’ve put a Kent beneath Batman’s cape and cowl, Snyder said in an interview with Vanity Fair.

There was a quick shot in Justice League of Lois Lane’s pregnancy test, as yet unopened and unused, but with pretty clear implications: in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Lois may well have been pregnant with Kal-El’s son.

A new Batman was to replace Bruce Wayne in one of the sequels, Snyder explained. “It was going to be Lois and Superman’s son,” he said. “He doesn’t have any powers, and then he was going to end up being the new Batman.”

Snyder continued, explaining that a flash-forward scene would’ve had Lois and Clark taking their son to the Batcave, where they tell him about Bruce’s life.

“Twenty years later, on the anniversary of [Batman’s] death, they take young Bruce Kent down to the Batcave and they say, ‘Your Uncle Bruce would’ve been proud if you did this.’ Anyway, something like that,” Snyder said.

Earlier in the planning process, Snyder had at one point paired together Bruce Wayne and Lois Lane after Superman died fighting Doomsday, right down to the speech he’d make to Alfred.

“I never had a life outside the cave. I never imagined a world for me beyond this. But this woman makes me think that if I can get this group of gods together, then my job is done. I can quit. I can stop,” Snyder had Bruce saying. The couple would realize that resurrecting Superman was the only way to save the world, so Bruce would have to give up this path. Warner Bros. executives ultimately said no to this storyline before it even got started.

With Snyder moving onto other things, we’ll never see what would’ve happened with the many different ideas Snyder has discussed, and which would’ve come to light. If you want to know how the Martian Manhunter figures into the story, we have your back. If you’re a little foggy on 2017’s Justice League and want to know what changed in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, we laid out all the differences between the two. If those final scenes with Joker surprised you, find out what Jared Leto thought about them. Or maybe you remember that this movie was supposed to be a four-part miniseries and are wondering why Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a four-hour epic.

Devotion Developer Red Candle Games Teases Its Next Game

Devotion developer Red Candle Games is teasing its next project, and it appears to be a non-horror, stylish 2D action title.

Red Candle Games shared a short video of its new project on Twitter, and it doesn’t seem to be a horror game like the studio’s previous games, Devotion and Detention.

Devotion was in the news recently as it was finally made available after being delisted for more than two years following the controversy that occurred when users found an in-game Winnie the Pooh meme mocking Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In 2020, Devotion was set to return via CD Projekt’s GOG distribution platform, but GOG posted a message later that day saying, “after receiving many messages from gamers, we have decided not to list the game in our store.”

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Red Candle Games took matters into its own hands and created its very own Red Candle e-shop to sell its games in hopes to “provide a direct and simple purchasing channel for players who’re interested in our games.”

For more, check out our review of Devotion, in which we said, “From start to finish, Devotion is an excellent psychological horror game full of surreal imagery, creepy dolls, and wonderful environmental storytelling.”

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Animal Crossing-Like Cozy Grove Now Out On Apple Arcade, Coming To Switch, PS4, And Xbox In April

Looking for another cute management sim to invest in now that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a year old? Maybe check out Cozy Grove, which is now available on Apple Arcade and coming to Xbox One, PS4, and Switch on April 8.

Developer Spry Fox even compares its latest game to Animal Crossing. I don’t blame them either as there are plenty of similarities in terms of tone and gameplay loop. It all seems very relaxing.

In Cozy Grove, you don’t really have an immediate mandate, leaving you free to wander across the island in search of secrets to discover, friends to make, ghosts to soothe, and helpful items to craft. Over time, your efforts to bring life to the haunted island will eventually cause it to fill with color.

Personally, I’m looking forward to jumping into the game because Spry Fox tweeted out the promise that the game’s inhabitants “won’t shame you for taking a few days (or months) off” like Animal Crossing’s villagers will. I don’t need that pressure on my conscience right now.

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