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Secretlab has a brand new sale on its premium gaming chairs to check out, with up to $100/ £100 off our absolute top choices for gaming chairs at the moment. We’ve included the links to our very favourite deals in the sale below, but make sure to check out the entire collection as there are some sweet designs up for grabs at a great price.

Not only that, but there’s completely free shipping during the promotion as well. This sale won’t last forever, however, so take full advantage while you can. It’s live right now, all the way until the end of play on March 18, 2021.

Absolute Best Deal on Gaming Chairs Right Now

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Call of Duty: Mobile changes in a big way with the launch of the game’s first major update of 2021. The Season 2: Day of Reckoning update has landed on iOS and Android, bringing with it a new Operator, Charly, along with new maps and more battle pass content.

Charly comes to Call of Duty: Mobile as a free unlock for everyone–all you have to do is log into the game and she will appear in your inventory. Activision said there are no restrictions or time limits for the new Operator.

Also of note, the Day of Reckoning update introduces two more maps that may be familiar to players. Shoot House from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is now in the game, along with the Modern Warfare classic Shipment map that is among the smallest Call of Duty maps ever. This leads to some fast and frenetic gameplay.

The Day of Reckoning update also adds new battle pass rewards to unlock, including weapon blueprints and calling cards. Additionally, the Napalm Strike scorestreak has been added as an unlockable bonus in the battle pass.

A new mode, Gunfight: Sniper, has been added to multiplayer with the update. As its name suggests, this mode challenges players to take down enemies and capture objectives with only a sniper rifle.

The Day of Reckoning update also makes some changes to the battle royale mode of Call of Duty: Mobile. A new vehicle, the cargo truck, has been added to the mix. It has two seats for a driver and a co-pilot, while the bed of the truck can accomodate multiple soldiers standing on it. Additionally, the Tank Battle mode has been added as a “featured” mode in battle royale.

The update also makes a number of bug fixes and tuning changes. One very notable-sounding change is that ADS accuracy for all weapons in the game has been increased. Additionally, horizontal recoil control for all weapons has been increased as well.

You can see the complete patch notes below, as posted by Activision on Reddit.

Call of Duty: Mobile Season 2 Day Of Reckoning Patch Notes

New Premium Battle Pass Rewards

• New epic Blueprints: AS VAL – Judgement, M4LMG – Checkpoint, KRM-262 – Eagle Claw and BK57 – Data Miner
• New epic Soldiers: Mace – Back For More, Mara – Awakening, Alex and Special Ops 2 – Brute
• New Legendary Calling Cards

New Free Battle Pass Rewards:

• New base weapon: AS VAL. A special rifle with high fire rate as well as damage, the subsonic design creates a silencing effect. However, the price is paid with slow bullet speed with obvious bullet falling trajectory. Soldiers will need a lot of practice to master it.
• New Scorestreak: Napalm. Scorch nearby enemies and fill the battlefield with smoke.

New Events Rewards:

New challenges and missions with new rewards:

• New base weapon: SP-R 208, a bolt-action marksman rifle with relatively high damage and mobility. With the special attachment Bolt, the weapon will increase in accuracy and range, but also decrease chambering speed.
• New Perk: Recon. After an enemy is killed, nearby enemies will be scanned and displayed on the mini map.

New Rank Series

• Rank Series resets to Series 1. The new Series 1 starts from 2021.3 – 2021.5
• New ranked mode rewards:
  • New epic Blueprint: QXR – Roaring Steel
  • New epic Soldier: Kreuger – Ruptured Steel

MULTIPLAYER

New Maps

• Shoot House: The popular Modern Warfare map is now available in CODM! The map features a military training ground located in the middle of a desert, including the classic 3-route design. Join the fierce combat with your best maneuvers!
  • Available for Team Death Match, Domination, Hard Point, Kill Confirmed, and more!
• Shipment – Modern: This classic map in Modern Warfare series has been renovated! The WWII style shipment port has been is now in modern style. While fighting fiercely between containers, don’t let down the guards towards threats from above.
  • Available for Team Death Match, Domination, Hard Point, Kill Confirmed, and more!

New Featured Game Modes!

• Gunfight: Sniper
  • Eliminate or capture objectives by using only acquired sniper rifles. Kilo-Bolt Action, SKS and NA45 are also available in this mode.
  • Available on Cage, Shipment, Pine, King, and more!

Loadout New Features

• Blueprint Overview: Players can select and change blueprints in the Loadout conveniently by clicking the OVERVIEW icon.
• Recently Acquired Items: The Notification clearing icon (the exclamation mark with a slash) now shows all new items player recently acquired, including weapons, attachments, soldiers, camos, and others.
• Blueprints Available: Players now can see new blueprints available in Loadout.

BATTLE ROYALE

New Featured Game Modes!

• Tank Battle: Also Available for Ranked Mode.
  • Collect five components to assemble your tank. You can also assemble Tank via blueprint in the airdrop. Multiple soldiers can fight in tanks.
  • Components making up the tank include: Chassis, Engine, Armor, Primary Weapon, Secondary Weapon.
  • Anti-Tank weapons include: Delay Bomb, Proximity Mine, Anti-Tank Sticky Grenade,
  • Anti-Tank Sniper, Anti-Tank War Machine.
  • Tank repair tools: Welding Gun.
  • There are three types of tank blueprints.

New Vehicle

• New Vehicle: Cargo Truck. The truck has only two seats for the driver and the co-driver, but the body can accommodate multiple soldiers who can move freely. The acceleration is lower, but has high durability and provides good protection the riders.

New Custom Airdrop Weapons

Soldiers now can equip pistols as custom airdrop weapons.

Weapon Lists Updated

• Common: AK117 / SKS / M4LMG / GKS
• Uncommon: AK47 / Man-O-War / M21 EBR / Chopper / RUS-74U / BY15 / KRM-262
• Rare: AK117 / BK57 / FR .556 / HVK-30 / Peacekeeper MK2 / AS VAL / LOCUS / SP-R 208 / M4LMG / Razorback / QQ9 / QXR / KRM-262
• Epic: Type 25 / ICR / DRH / BK57 / KN-44 / AS VAL / Man-O-War / Peacekeeper MK2 / HVK-30 / DL Q33 / SKS / Chopper / RUS-74U / GKS / QQ9
• Legendary: M4 / Man-O-War / AS VAL / HVK-30 / SP-R 208 / M4LMG / QXR / GKS

IMPROVEMENTS & OPTIMIZATIONS

Multiplayer

• Increased MSMC’s OWC Marksman barrel attachment horizontal recoil control.
• Increased S36, UL736, RPD, and M4LMG’s YKM combat stock attachment ADS time reduction.
• Decreased HBRA3’s OWC Marksman barrel attachment’s negative effects.
• Increased DL Q33 damage to 90 and grants it higher wall-penetrating damage.
• Increased DRH’s the No Stock attachment ADS time reduction to 12%.
• Decreased DRH’s No Stock attachment hit flinch to 15%.
• Slightly decreased ICR’s No Stock attachment and YKM Combat Stock attachment accuracy.
• Slightly increased ASM10’s No Stock attachment hit flinch.
• Decreased Arctic .50’s wall-penetrating damage and MIP Stopping Power Reload attachment’s damage ratio to legs. Now a wall-penetrating leg shot will not be lethal.
• The capacity of blocking fire bullet for Arctic.50 is decreased from 20 to 15 and its maximum capacity is decreased from 40 to 30, ADS time increased from 12% to 25%,and shot interval from 40% to 50%.
• Decreased the explosion range of War Machine.
• Decreased the damage reduction of War Machine operator.
• Decreased Gravity Spike damage range.
• Slightly decreased the damage of Annihilator dealt to: Stealth Chopper, XS1 Goliath, VTOL, Shield Turret and Transform shield.
• Solders equipped with Dead Silence Perk no longer hear the footstep of themselves, and the audible range of running has been decreased.
• Players now can jump while moving alongside a wall.
• Optimized the speed adjustment when moving alongside a wall/obstacle,
• Optimized the server tick rate.
• Optimized player’s hit box when switching among standing, crouching and prostrating.
• Increased characters’ FPS. Enemy’s movements and actions are more precise and smooth.
• Optimized sound effects based on different scenes so that players can locate their enemies more accurately.
• Fixed an issue that players might get stuck in window frames when climbing through.
• Fixed an issue that Soldiers will be stuck for a while after crossing the shortcut of LAUNDRY SIDEWALK in Raid.
• Fixed an issue that some wrong collisions in the scene in Takeoff.
• Fixed an issue that some wrong collisions in the scene in Tunisia.

Battle Royale

• Increased ADS accuracy for all weapons.
• Increased horizontal recoil control for all weapons.
• Popular weapons such as AK47 and AK117 have much lower control increasing than other weapons.
• The locking time for FHJ18 is changed to 1 second.
• The launching speed of projectiles from FHJ18 is decreased to 110m/s and accelerates to its maximum speed.
• Significantly increased SMG and SHOTGUN hip-fire accuracy.
• Significantly increased SNIPER rifle recoil control.
• Increased Tempest’s damage and damaging radius.
• Increased Annihilator range. It now can eliminates enemy in all range with 2 shots
• Increased projectile distance of all lethal and tactical weapons.
• Cluster Grenade now has an alarm when it sticks to an object, and directions of small grenades will be shown on the screen.
• Discarded guns no longer show amount of remaining ammo.
• Optimized wing suit landing action.
• Optimized the server tick rate.
• Optimized player’s hit box when switching among standing, crouching and prostrating..
• Increased characters’ FPS. Enemy’s movements and actions are more precise and smooth.
• Optimized sound effects based on different scenes so that players can locate their enemies more accurately.

Game Mode Optimization

Going Dark

• Battery limitation feature has been added to night vision devices, with an exception for the undeads in Attack of the Night.
• EMP can temporarily paralyze night vision devices.
• Scorestreak items and trip mines show team color even when night vision device is on.
• Fixed the issue that visual effects of weapon blueprints and firing effects were overexposed when night vision device is on.
• Fixed the issue that the touch screen of controlling Scorestreaks is blurred when night vision device is on.
• Optimized the lighting of related maps.

Hardpoint HQ

• New scoring rule added to Hard Point: continuous capturing. Soldiers continuously capturing the Hard Point will earn extra scores.
• Fixed the issue that soldier revives too far from the objective.

Prop Hunt

• New maps available: Tunisia.

Ranked Mode

Multiplayer

• Optimized the algorithm of evaluating players’ strengths and abilities in every rank, especially legendary players. Legendary players around 6500 scores won’t match up with high score legendary players frequently.
• Optimized the UI of ranking lobby.

Rattle Royale

• Optimized rank point calculating algorithm. Players get more rank points in the new season in total.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has fallen steadily in price since it launched alongside the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S last November. Now, it’s finally fallen below the $30 mark at Amazon, which has Valhalla on sale for just $28 today. This is a pretty awesome deal on one of the best games currently available for PS5 and Xbox Series X, and for PS5 owners, you can even pick up the PS5-specific physical copy at that price. As usual with Amazon, there’s no telling how long this deal will be available, and it’s possible some versions will sell out soon.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is set in the ninth century and follows a Viking leader named Eivor, who leads their clan to England after being driven out of Norway. It received an 8/10 in GameSpot’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla review. “Despite its strong connection to past games, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is more than capable of standing on its own,” wrote editor Jordan Ramée.

“It takes a little while to build momentum, but when it hits its stride, Valhalla is a confident Assassin’s Creed title that takes a few narrative risks which, as a whole, pay off. Eivor is a good hero with an identity that drives the mystery behind the main narrative, and she shines in the self-contained arc structure of Valhalla’s story. The supporting cast may not shine as brightly, but it’s easy to forgive that when exploring England and discovering new nuggets of worldbuilding is so rewarding.”

Check out more of the best deals today, including a bunch of discounts on Switch games for Mario Day. Plus, see our guide to the best games to play on PS5 right now.

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Have you ever wished you could cuddle a big stuffed animal of Tom Nook, and then dress him up in a bunch of cute little outfits? Build-a-Bear may be about to make that a reality.

In a tweet today, Build-a-Bear announced it had partnered with Nintendo for an Animal Crossing collection:

COMING SOON! Our Animal Crossing™: New Horizons collection is full of fun for all ages. Sign up for free email and text updates so you don’t miss a thing!

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— buildabear (@buildabear) March 10, 2021

Unfortunately, there are no further details at the moment as to which Animal Crossing characters will be turned into cute stuffed animals. Based on past promotions, it seems very possible we get at least one or two bears based on or inspired by main characters from the game such as Tom Nook or Isabelle, as well as a handful of outfits that can be worn by any bear. It’s also possible that, like other collections, this is one that grows over time to include more and more characters.

Build-a-Bear has previously released numerous collections based on popular entertainment properties including Super Mario, Doctor Who, Pokémon, Frozen, How to Train Your Dragon, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Mandalorian, and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Meanwhile, Animal Crossing has seen plenty of interesting crossovers lately, including a partnership with ColourPop for a make-up line and an upcoming crossover with Sanrio to add six new villagers based on Sanrio characters, as well as a ton of new furniture items, to the game.

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In a new trailer, developer People Can Fly has given a brief explanation as to how Earth fell apart and how all hopes for the continuation of the species rested on the shoulders of the most outstanding survivors who were evacuated from the planet.

Unfortunately, that plan went awry when the spaceship carrying the A-team of explorers exploded, leaving the fate of humanity up to the best of the rest instead.

Fast forward a few decades to where Outriders begins, and the future looks grim. The planet of Enoch is far more hostile than originally imagined, strange storms have killed numerous people and enhanced others with wild new powers, and decades of civil war have pushed the colonists closer to extinction than ever before.

That’s where the story of Outriders truly begins as players find themselves caught in the middle of a massive conflict and begin fighting back at anything that threatens their survival.

In an interview on the PS Blog, Outriders creative director Bartek Kmita said that what was seen in the demo was only a small sample of all the story and lore to come in the full game. “In the Outriders Demo, you’re really only seeing the tip of the iceberg; the starter that only gives you a taste of what’s yet to come,” Kmita explained. “There’s far more depth and complexity to come here.”

Outriders launches on April 1 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. If the demo sold you on the full experience, it’s still worth farming that small slice of gameplay for legendary gear that will be carried over to the full game when it arrives.

Your best bet to do so is to grind through a few of the game’s tougher foes, which you can read up on in our Outriders Legendary Loot farming guide.

It’s a big day for Roblox, as the game’s owner is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange as part of a business move that marks the next stage in the developer’s growth.

Founder David Baszucki was on-hand in New York to ring the opening bell to mark the start of trading for Roblox, which will trade under RBLX. In a statement, Baszucki said, “In 2004, we founded Roblox with the vision of connecting the world. Today, as we celebrate our direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, we recognize the potential ahead of us: to build the platform where billions of people come together to learn, work, and play.”

A direct listing differs from an initial public offering (IPO). With a direct listing, outstanding shares are sold, compared to an IPO where new shares are created and sold to the public.

Roblox Corp. has an estimated value of $30 billion, and this could grow substantially with the direct listing, or it might not. Nothing is guaranteed on the stock market.

What will happen is that Baszucki is expected to become a multi-billionaire due to the direct listing and his 70% ownership of the voting power, according to Fortune.

Baszucki is attempting to create a “metaverse” with Roblox, which is exactly what Fortnite studio Epic Games is trying to achieve as well. Baszucki told Fortune that the idea is to build Roblox to become a rich virtual world where players can do whatever they want.

“When we think about what we’re doing at Roblox, we’re shepherds of the metaverse,” he said.

Roblox made waves recently when it partnered with “Old Town Road” singer Lil Nas X for an in-game concert where the singer debuted a new single. More than 30 million people tuned in to watch the larger-than-life virtual concert.