Logic - weekly selection of gaming and IT industry news №8

Dear friends, the editors of Gamersweb are pleased to wish you all a Happy New Year! Not having time to start, the year 2013 pleases us with a variety of news from the news of the gaming and IT industry. We, as usual, picked up the most interesting of them for you - the news review of the first seven days of the New Year begins right now!

Apple and Android world

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• The company comScore MobiLens has published statistics on the US market for mobile devices. From her report it is clear that almost 90% of gadget sales are accounted for by two leading companies - Apple and Samsung.
• The company Flurry has formed an amusing report on the activation of mobile devices and visits to Apple and Google virtual counters. Flurry experts dare to suggest that the time is not far off when a billion downloads per week will become an average indicator.
• According to HotHardware, Apple is going to breathe a new life into such an accessory as the stylus: the new device has already been patented and is being finalized.
• The latest statistical report from Google shows that 10.2 percent of all devices sold in the last 14 days are running Android 4.1 or 4.2 (both belong to the Jelly Bean series).
• Amazon acquitted . Judge Hamilton considered that their Appstore does not possess the properties and quality of the products provided in the Apple App Store. In addition, Apple has not provided sufficient evidence on this issue.
• Apple is going to buy a map service Waze. Now both companies are discussing the terms of the deal. Apple offers Waze 400 million and another 100 after, as an investment in development. Waze insists on a higher amount - 750 million. By the way, do not forget about the rumors associated with Foursquare.
• According to analysts, we will see the first batch of new iPhones in mid-2013, more precisely, in June. For the first time in Apple's history, the iPhone 5S case will be painted not only in standard white and black colors, but also in blue, green, pink, and several other colors. Is it true?

CES 2013

• During CES 2013, we will have the opportunity to see a new, third modification of Gorilla Glass, which will undoubtedly take its proper place in the market of future generations of gadgets (primarily in the iPhone, iPod and iPad).
• Toyota, participating in the Consumer Electronics Show along with other giants of the industry, this time promises to surprise professionals and high-tech enthusiasts with its new product. The Japanese company is going to present a car with an autopilot.
• HTC is going to present on January 8, at CES 2013, a device called the HTC M7. It is assumed that the body of the new gadget will be completely devoid of buttons, they will be replaced by touch buttons on a 4.7-inch Full HD screen.

World of games

• Studio 2K presented a truly pleasant surprise to BioShock fans by announcing a special edition of BioShock and BioShock 2 - BioShock: Ultimate Rapture. The publication includes BioShock, BioShock 2, all downloadable add-ons to them and never-before-published concept art of games.
• Capcom believes that the DmC: Devil May Cry entry threshold for newbies should be low, but the game should still remain challenging in terms of gameplay - even if the hardened lovers of the classic series will not be disappointed.
• Warner Bros. and TT Games announced a new line of three-game LEGO: Legends of Chima. All of them are scheduled for release in 2013.
• From January 3, 2013, Electronic Arts begins a phased termination of online support for 12 outdated games, mainly sports “one-year-olds”.
• In an interview with GamesMaster magazine, Shigeru Miyamoto said that the game Pikmin 3 will have much in common with the original game in the strategy genre. Also, the author of the series said that he did not agree to go the way of simplifying the gameplay. A rare statement at the time of trends for maximum simplification of the gameplay.

Some more interesting

• According to Samsung Electronics, in 2013 the company will be able to supply 500 million mobile devices to the market, including 350 million smartphones.
• According to rumors, Motorola is going to release a Motorola RAZR M smartphone with a 4.5 ″ HD display. It seems that the new DROID RAZR M HD will not differ much from its predecessor, although it will please customers with an HD display with a maximum resolution of 1280 × 720 and several minor, but pleasant changes.
• Have you ever wondered what the limits of Nokia's wireless charger are? Can the device successfully perform its function through a protective case? Nisse Tuta, a Windows Phone Central user, went further .
• In the Windows Store downloaded 35,000 applications. The Windows Store was announced in September 2011 and is intended to provide paid and free applications to happy owners of Windows 8 and subsequent Microsoft operating systems. Slabova, of course, we hope that everything is still ahead. What's next, Microsoft?
• It is rumored that Samsung is preparing to release the Galaxy S IV in 2013. The release should occur in April, and not in March, as previously planned.
• Canonical announced the imminent release of the mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system. The emergence of an alternative platform can now be considered a fait accompli, especially considering that the date for the appearance of the first phones that will work on it is already known - the beginning of 2014.

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