Logic - the most interesting news gaming and IT-industry number 11

Friends, we have two news for you: bad and good. Let's start with the bad. Tomorrow is Monday. And now it's good: today is still Sunday, which means that it's time to set aside a few minutes of your time to get acquainted with the most interesting and important news from the world of the gaming and IT industry. So sit back and we start.

Games, games, games and some more games ...

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• On March 27, the 13th annual Game Developers Choice Awards will be held - a selection of the best games and developers of 2012. Voting will be held among the employees of the gaming industry.
• Microsoft has published a list of the most popular Xbox Live games of the past year, namely: Xbox Live, Games for Windows Live, Xbox Live Arcade and indie games for Xbox. To your attention the list is provided below.
• When making a pre-order of the Grand Theft Auto V game, a similar entry “Estimated ship date: 03/24/2013” ​​was noticed , which may indicate the release date of the console version of the game.
• Impressions of Tomb Raider: “Not so long ago, in the office of 1C-SoftClub, I was lucky to try a rather extensive demo version of the restart of the Tomb Raider series, which promises to be released in March of this year. Showed a single campaign ... "
• In the German online store Amazon appeared 10 of the popular shooter Call of Duty. An interesting fact is that in the stated platforms only PC is listed.
• Boxing art of the new game The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, which was made after the show of the same name by the studio Terminal Reality, appeared on the Internet.
• The collector's edition of the game Splinter Cell: Blacklist will include a game disc, comics, additional game content and a radio-controlled aircraft.
• Game publisher Ubisoft reported that the first episode additions to the game Assassin's Creed 3 will be released on February 19. Supplement called The Tyranny of George Washington.
• Capcom showed a collector's edition of the game Resident Evil: Revelations, which was announced for the PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii U.
• The Creative Assembly has announced the "golden" edition of the game Total War: Shogun 2.
• The company Ubisoft, as we already know, bought at auction the game studio THQ Montreal, as well as the rights to release a new project from Obsidian - South Park: Stick of Truth.
• Sony presented four options for the collection edition of The Last of Us, which will appear on store shelves on May 7 of this year.

Beta tests: this is not to be missed ...

• Crytek game studio and Electronic Arts made an announcement of the date of the extended open beta testing of the multiplayer mode of the third part of the Crysis action shooter, which will be held from January 29 to February 12 on all gaming platforms.
• The company Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced that on January 22, the open beta test of the game DUST 514 was launched - a free multiplayer online first-person shooter.
• Studio Bethesda opened the acceptance of applications for participation in the beta test of its MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online. You can leave an application for participation on the official project website.

Stories, interviews, scandals ...

• The auction, which sold all the assets of the company THQ, ended . Let's see what projects were purchased by other gaming companies.
• The head of the game studio Ubisoft Montreal, Jannis Mull, is waiting to start working with Patrice Desile, who is the former creative director of Assassin's Creed and Prince of Persia games. Patrice Desile returned to Ubisoft again due to the bankruptcy of THQ.
• Koch Media representatives gave the first comments after they bought the assets of THQ. Managers do not regret at all that they have given away $ 28.1 million.
• The company Rockstar said it would sue Frank Darabont, director of the Green Mile and Shawshank Escape, if he did not change the name of his new series LA Noir, which was filmed after the novel of the same name by John Bantin.
• Cliff Bleszinski managed to get bored without the gaming industry. In a recent interview with VentureBeat, Cliff told about his plans for the future, where he noted that he would like to return to the creation of AAA-projects.
• The game studio teamPixel began raising funds on the IndieGoGo service in order to buy THQ rights to Homeworld. An interesting fact is that SEGA bought Relic, but the rights to the Homeworld game series decided to leave THQ.
• The British Commissariat, which is in charge of protecting personal data, issued a fine to Sony for breaking into PlayStation Network in 2011.
• Microsoft hired designer Andrew Kim, who last year was developing a new minimalist company logo and presented a design concept called “The Next Microsoft”.
• In a conversation with journalists from the portal EDGE, Cevat Yerli said that the PC had “overtaken a generation” of the Xbox 360 and PS3. Yerli said that developers are focusing on creating console games, which slows down the development of PC games.

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