Logic - the most interesting gaming and IT-industry news number 10

Another week is coming to an end. The week was very difficult and tense. But finally, we were able to relax after CES 2013 and focus on other equally interesting news and events. Today we are pleased to present you the tenth, in a certain sense, anniversary, issue of “Logic” - a weekly selection of the most important and significant news from the world of the gaming and IT industry. Stock up on popcorn, turn off the sound on your mobile phones, we start.

Give me the joystick, please ...

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• Buy an Elephant - a bargain shopping guide in which we have collected for you all the most detailed information about all discounts, sales and special offers. See, read and buy.
• Closed beta testing of the new SimCity, a new addition to the Civilization V called One World, the start of sales of the new set - the Snow Storm Bundle on IndieRoyale and 600,000 copies sold by the Legend of Grimrock game can be found here.
• The team involved in Left 4 Dead 2, for which there are still a lot of add-ons, has finally added support for the Steam Workshop.
• Ubisoft is porting a very rare genre from the Xbox 360 to the PC - Moto trial. March 22 will come to us the golden edition of the third part of the series - Trials Evolition. Comes with Trials HD - levels from the first game on a new engine.
• Out of the state of the beta service Steam Guide service. It is part of the Game Hubs and is available in a separate tab inside the Center for each game. In addition, manuals are directly available in the game.
• The site IGN told the world is not very good news: Ubisoft postponed the release of Splinter Cell: Blacklist - the continuation of a series of stealth action games, equipped with the plot of the famous American cranberry writer Tom Clancy.
• The residents of The Vault , a well-known resource of nuclear wasteland fans, found an entry in the forums of their favorite game that on January 8th, Bethesda registered the Fallout trademark with the phrase “an entertaining multiseries television program in the scenery of a post-nuclear apocalyptic future”
• The Respublika Igry online store has started selling pre-orders kits for one of the most anticipated games this year - Grand Theft Auto V. The cost of the pre-order is 299r and this amount will be credited to you when you buy the game itself.

Iron and iron are different ...

• One of the developers of an unknown game, the output of which is timed to the launch of the PlayStation 4, told ComputerAndVideoGames that Sony decided to experiment with the controls for its new console.
• A bustling rumor about a new-generation console will hardly subside right up to the Game Developer Conference 2013 itself. ArsTechnica and ExtremeTech report that AMD sued four former employees who, having quit, took more than 100,000 badly lying important documents with them.
• Thanks to several factors for HTC, there is a very good atmosphere for takeoff. According to some reports, the company is gaining new momentum and, with a good combination of circumstances, as well as in presenting interesting models in the new year, it can compete with Apple itself.
• Intel plans to bring to the attention of users a new hardware platform called Haswell, which should significantly increase the company's rating.
• Samsung has officially unveiled a new smartphone Galaxy S II Plus. The new phone is an improved version of its successful predecessor Galaxy S II.
• Samsung sales hit all records. Since in May 2010, the company released the first smartphone Galaxy S, that is, for 2 years and 7 months, the company has sold more than 100 million of these smartphones.
• Astrologers have announced a week of rumors about the Xbox and PlayStation. The number of rumors doubled. Some data on the Xbox 720 (Durango) and the PlayStation 4 (Orbis) were shuttled in the middle of last year, but the new information looks more like the truth.
• Justin Barwick, one of the creators of the famous portable console Dingoo A320, and his comrades raise money for a new portable console under the name GCW Zero.

Separate greetings from Apple ...

• Currently, there are tendencies to the fact that with the release of the seventh version of the iOS operating system into the world, it will come to completely new opportunities, along with global changes in the appearance of the interface, as well as applications itself. Let's see what can come of it.
• Representatives of the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent to Apple, which it had been seeking for so long: a patent for a glass trackpad.
• The CES exhibition is long over, but the network still includes new products presented on it. It's about the keyboard for devices from Apple, but the keyboard is not normal, and that neither is futuristic.
• At CES 2013, Wysips introduced its new development. The novelty was the thinnest film. The uniqueness of the development is to enable the iPhone and iPad to accumulate energy from the sun or other light source through the screen.
• The creators of Pebble wristwatches, presented among other exhibits at CES 2013, said that the first watches will go on sale on January 23 of this year.
• Incipio has developed and implemented two models of waterproof, heavy-duty covers. The name of the first model is xGO. The second model was called Atlas. Now the iPhone can take pictures even under water. Fish, we're going.

And one more interesting thing ...

• Turkeys is a weekly newsreader introducing you to the most interesting events of the indie industry. Also here you will learn all about the most interesting gaming updates and upcoming releases.
• Geek Week, video game digest: special issue .
• Comics. Comics. Comics. Lots of comics .

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