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Once the neglected children of the gaming world, smartphone users in 2021 can now play titles like Minecraft, Fortnite, and Genshin Impact. That means that everyone with a reasonably powerful phone and ample power can enjoy a full-fledged gaming experience without investing in a PC or console, handheld or otherwise. 

Needless to say, this gives mobile game devs the opportunity to appeal to a much wider customer base that doesn’t necessarily identify with gamers. There’s a ton of money to be made too; for example, Genshin Impact grossed $50 million in its first week alone. Needless to say, the mobile gaming market is growing, and you can learn how to create your own mobile games with this $29 coding and design course.

In this course, you’ll learn how to make a ninja survival game using Unity and Blender. The mastermind behind this course is John Bura, a game dev with decades of experience both creating games and teaching about game development. He’s instructed over 300 thousand students to date, and some of his games have even topped the App Store’s top ten mobile game charts, making him a trustworthy resource in all things gaming.

What’s great about this course is that it covers every aspect of game development, including design, coding, and even modeling. The first few chapters of this course will introduce you to Blender, Unity, and coding in C#, which are necessary to create 3D models, design your game’s functionality, and build game levels. From there, you’ll learn how to define enemy logic, add jumping animations, design turret aiming, and much more. 

By the end of this course, you’ll be a proper game designer with a game under your belt, and this course by John Bura will guide you every step of the way. The course costs $200 at retail, but you can get it today for just $29. That’s an 85% discount.

 

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Movies and games like Watch Dogs: Legion have glamorized hacking for decades, but most of us know that it doesn’t exactly look the way the entertainment industry portrays it. However, that isn’t to say that hacking and cybersecurity can’t be exciting. 

For the past few years, it felt like there were new data breaches every single day, so white hat hackers — IT professionals who specialize in cybersecurity — are in heavy demand. If you’re interested in a career that involves hacking into networks and exposing vulnerabilities (within the confines of the law, of course) then we highly recommend this 10-course bundle by CyberTraining 365 for $39.

The Ethical Hacker Master Class Bundle is packed with over 180 hours of educational content on how to neutralize cyber threats. CyberTraining 365, the course provider, is an online academy that specializes in cybersecurity training and certification and has taught over 150 thousand students via Udemy alone. Their aim is to teach professionals how to defend their organizations at every layer, including the perimeter, internal network, applications, memory, and binary levels. 

If you’re an ethical hacker in the making, you need to get certified in IT first, and this bundle features three courses dedicated to CompTIA A+, Network +, and Security +. These will get you acquainted with computers and systems in general, covering everything from setting up a computer and installing an operating system to troubleshooting your network and performing risk management.

Once you’ve earned your certifications and built up a few years of hands-on work experience, you can finally branch out into cybersecurity, and there are plenty of courses in this bundle to help you decide which area you enjoy best. Ethical Hacker Training is the most comprehensive, covering ethical hacking topics like intrusion detection, DDoS attacks, and perimeter defenses. Meanwhile, Security Analyst Training will teach you how to identify and fix vulnerabilities through penetration testing.

As an ethical hacker, you won’t be able to hijack peoples’ drones or compromise slot machines, but your work will be valuable and meaningful nonetheless. The Ethical Hacker Master Class Bundle contains all of the knowledge you need to pursue a career in cybersecurity, and you can get all six courses today for just $39.

 

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As long as people have something to sell or memes to share, there is going to be a need for websites. Ideally, websites that don’t just look good but deliver content quickly. That means people are going to need web developers – which means people who can code in Javascript.

Javascript has been around nearly as long as the internet itself, and it’s still one of the building blocks of a dynamic website. As the web has evolved, this versatile language has come to be used in everything from the hottest new apps to the most basic vlog pages.

The best part is, it’s still surprisingly easy to learn. Especially with the help of an online boot camp like the Javascript Masterclass Bundle. There are few better places to start your web development career than by diving into this series of eight classes, and you’ll come away learning a few other applications of this popular language.

No matter what your skill level, you’ll be able to pick up some marketable skills. Instructor Laurence Svekis isn’t just an experienced programmer, he’s a marketing and user experience guru with nearly 2 decades of experience, and you’ll benefit from it all.

His beginner’s courses teach you the core concepts of the language, from basic commands to the way that conditions and objects interact. And since Javascript plays well with others, you’ll learn a bit of HTML and CSS along the way. By the time you’ve completed the intermediate courses, you’ll be able to create fully functional websites from scratch.

If you want to dive deeper, you can get up to speed on ES6, the latest update to Javascript. Combine that with courses that cover tools like JSON or the AJAX development techniques and you’ll have a resume that’s essential for any web entrepreneur.

Can’t wait to get started? IGN readers can get access to the full Javascript Masterclass Bundle for $39, down $20 from the previous price and 97% off the original MSRP.

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A demo for Little Nightmares 2 is now available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

The demo is also available for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S users as well, and it’s available on PC through Steam and GOG.com. According to Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, the demo allows players to “discover the spooky world of Little Nightmares II and get a glimpse of Mono’s journey discovering the Wilderness level on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.”

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The news of this demo dropped alongside a brand new trailer for the game, which you can view above. Digital preorders for the Switch version of the game are now live as well. Preorders on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and PC, were already live before today. Physical preorders for the Day One Edition and the TV Edition, which is only available in Europe, are still available on the Bandai Namco Entertainment Store.

“The TV Edition will add, in addition to the Nomes’ Attic DLC and Mokujin mask, the complete soundtrack of the game as well as an exclusive diorama of Mono & Six, an artbook, a steelbook case…and stickers for the game,” according to Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe.

If you haven’t yet played the first Little Nightmares, it’s available to download for free on PC from January 13 to January 17 on the Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe store. An Epic account is require to download the game. For those on Xbox, the game is part of the January lineup for Xbox Games With Gold so anyone with a Xbox Live Gold subscription can play the game for free now.

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The game has also been adapted in comic book form: “In an effort to continue telling the story behind the lost children of the Little Nightmares word, Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe has worked on a digital comic book, whose first chapters are available on Android and iOS,” Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe said in a press release. “The comic book will go into the story between Little Nightmares and Little Nightmares II.”

For more Little Nightmares II, check out this gameplay trailer released last year and then watch this Halloween trailer released last October. Be sure to read our thoughts on the game after going hands-on with it after that.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

We’ve all had the experience of forgetting a password, but one programmer named Stefan Thomas has lost his password to a hard drive containing $240 million worth of Bitcoin, and he only has two password attempts left before he is locked out forever.

As reported by The New York Times (via BBC), Thomas was given 7,002 Bitcoins more than 10 years ago for making a video how cryptocurrency works. At the time, his collection of Bitcoin were worth only a few dollars each, and he decided to store them in an IronKey digital wallet on a hard drive. He wrote the password to that drive on a piece of paper that he ended up losing, and now his Bitcoin are worth $240 million and he can’t remember what password he wrote down all those years ago.

Thomas has already tried eight possible passwords, and he only has two left before the password will “encrypt itself, making the wallet impossible to access.”

There are those, like ex-Facebook security head Alex Stamos who have offered to help Thomas unlock the hard drive, but he is asking for a 10% cut.

“Um, for $220M in locked-up Bitcoin, you don’t make 10 password guesses but take it to professionals to buy 20 IronKeys and spend six months finding a side-channel or uncapping,” Stamos said on Twitter. “I’ll make it happen for 10%. Call me.”

Later, Stamos mentioned that he was joking when he said he would unlock it, but that it is “something that should be investigated.”

Thomas is not alone in being locked out from his Bitcoin fortune, as there is currently $140 billion worth of Bitcoin that is either lost or left in wallets that cannot be accessed, according to cyrptocurrency-data company Chainanalysis.

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The New York Times article even mentions a particular case where an entrepreneur lost about 800 Bitcoins when a colleague of his reformatted a laptop that happened to contain the private keys to his wallet.

This whole situation has left Thomas wary of cryptocurrency in general.

“The whole idea of being your own bank – let me put it this way, do you make your own shoes? The reason we have banks is that we don’t want to deal with all those things that banks do,” Thomas said.

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To celebrate the franchise’s 25th anniversary, Pokemon is teaming up with popular musical artists including Katy Perry to create the soundtrack for its year of anniversary festivities.

Starting in March with the Galar region, the Pokemon Company will be taking a look at a past Pokemon region each month. There will also be various events, promotions, and merchandise released throughout the year to celebrate this landmark anniversary.

To tease these upcoming festivities, and its collaboration with Perry, the Pokemon Company has released a special video that’s a major nostalgia trip. It follows a sort of Pokemon-themed Rube Goldberg machine launching Poke Balls through various city and landscapes, complete with Game Boy cartridges toppling like dominoes, holographic trading cards, and all the plushies you could imagine. Detective Pikachu even makes a cameo.

Different versions of iconic music from the games plays throughout as well, leading up to the reveal of Katy Perry’s involvement as a Pikachu plushie skateboards into a disco ball which proceeds to hit a record player, teasing the new Perry tune. It’s unclear what the full extent of her song/collaboration will be, but the video ends with a neon Pikachu sign and Perry singing “electric” so it’s probably not a stretch to assume her work will be tied to our favorite electric mouse in one way or another.

So far, Perry is the only artist whose involvement in the anniversary event has been officially confirmed, but according to its site, the Pokemon Company is planning on collaborating with at least a few others as well. For more details on these artist collaborations and what other surprises the Pokemon Company has up its sleeve, trainers will just have to sit tight and keep their eyes peeled for updates. In the meantime, we can all gear up for whatever surprises are waiting in Galar in March.

MSI’s Stealth 15M is the world’s thinnest 15-inch gaming laptop and comes equipped with a brand-new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card.

Revealed during CES 2021, the Stealth 15M also comes with the latest 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake H35 with Next Technology. As previously mentioned, it is also the thinnest 15-inch laptop at only 16mm and weighs 1.7kg (3.7lbs).

The RTX 3060 graphics cards that are included in the Stealth 15M were also revealed during CES 2021 and bring next-gen level graphics of NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture to a wider audience to provide ray tracing, DLSS, and much more.

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As for cooling, the Stealth 15M features the Cooler Boost 5 that is a dedicated thermal solution for both the CPU and GPU with 2 fans and up to 6 heat pipes. It also promises up to 9 hours of battery life, making it a good travel companion.

Furthermore, it has MSI RGB lighting, USB-C, HDMI, and Thunderbolt 4 ports, a built-in webcam, Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201, and so much more. Its IPS display is also FHD (1920×1080) and has a refresh rate of 144Hz.

The MSI Stealth 15M starts at $1,399 USD and comes in either Carbon Grey or White.

Make sure to check out our roundup of the biggest announcements at CES 2021 for more breaking news.

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Today, Lucasfilm Games and Ubisoft Massive announced the two companies are working together on a new open-world, story-driven Star Wars game, and have started a “long-term collaboration”. But what does this mean for EA’s multi-year licensing deal on Star Wars games? According to EA, the company will still work with Lucasfilm Games on Star Wars projects “for years to come”.

EA released a statement about its future with the Star Wars brand following today’s news that Ubisoft will be working on a brand new Star Wars game with the newly formed Lucasfilm Games.

“We are proud of our long-standing collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, which will continue for years to come,” EA said in a statement. “Our talented teams have created some of the most successful games in the history of the Star Wars franchise, including Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and Star Wars: Squadrons. We love Star Wars and look forward to creating more exciting experiences for players to enjoy.”

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Earlier today, Lucasfilm Games made clear that it would continue to work with EA, and said that there were “a number of projects underway with the talented teams at EA”. One of those projects is presumably a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, after EA made clear that the first game was intended as the start of a new franchise.

In 2013, EA and Star Wars agreed to a multi-year deal which gave EA the exclusive rights to publish core Star Wars video games developed by its internal studios. No comment has been given on how or when that deal was altered.

Earlier this week, Disney announced the formation of Lucasfilm Games, which will house all Star Wars games under a single banner. It subsequently announced that MachineGames and Bethesda are working on an Indiana Jones game under the Lucasfilm Games brand, too.

With a new game in development at Ubisoft, it appears that Lucasfilm Games will now work with a variety of developers and publishers on creating new Star Wars games and more – seemingly closer in approach to the Marvel Games brand.

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The EA partnership led to several games including Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and 2 from DICE, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order from Respawn, and Star Wars: Squadrons from EA Motive. There were also cancelled projects that never materialized, including Amy Hennig’s Project Ragtag which was in development at the now shuttered Visceral Games.

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