Logic - the most interesting news gaming and IT-industry №12

Friends, ends the first Sunday of February, which means that it's time to read about the most important and interesting news from the world of gaming and IT-industry to be savvy on the upcoming winter Monday. Make tea with cookies, sit down, in front of you "Logic"!

IT industry news

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• Canadian company Research In Motion, which manufactures smartphones under the BlackBerry brand, has changed its name accordingly to the brand of its products.
• Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, reporting on the third fiscal quarter, told about the company's plans for next-generation consoles - the heirs of 3DS and Wii U.
• Zynga Chief Game Designer Brian Reynolds left his post and began to look for a new place to work.
• Greg Zeschuk, former co-head of the game studio BioWare, compared the merger with the company Electronic Arts with a bear hug.
• Jason Rubin, president of THQ, told in an interview with the publishing house MCV that the company had a chance to keep afloat if the management representatives had not made some mistakes.
• Sony announced that a new PlayStation Meeting press conference will be held on February 20. The company published a teaser for this event, which is held under the slogan "See The Future".
• Electronic Arts has officially announced that over the past quarter, revenue from sales of its games fell from $ 1.06 billion to $ 922 million, but losses were reduced from $ 205 million to $ 45 million.
• John Richitiello, head of Electronic Arts, at the last press conference, said that the next-generation consoles were still not on the market.

Gaming News

• The company Rockstar has officially announced that the release of the game Grand Theft Auto V has been postponed from spring to autumn.
• The iconic Half-Life shooter was released on Linux and Mac OS X. Valve did not have an official statement on this topic, but the players have already managed to “magically” find these versions of the game.
• Game publisher Paradox Interactive and the Swedish studio Pieces Interactive announced a turn-based strategy for battleships called Leviathan: Warships.
• Paradox Interactive will release on the iPad and Android tablets Magicka: Wizards of the Square Tablet arcade game, which the Swedish studio Ludosity is working on.
• DC Comics and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has officially announced that there will be a release of the special edition of the Injustice: Gods Among Us Special Edition fighting game in Europe.
• Frozenbyte has announced that it will release an update for the Trine 2 platform: Director's Cut.
• Game Arts Electronic Arts has refused to continue the development of the series Medal of Honor.
• The new game of the Battlefield series will be available next year, said Frank Hibo, head of EA Labels.
• Game developer Imangi Studios reported today that the number of downloads of the game Temple Run 2 has exceeded 50 million times.
• Duncan Jones will be the director of the film, which is based on the universe of the Warcraft gaming series.
• Publisher Ubisoft officially announced that it took a break in the development of the game series Prince of Persia.

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• The game Dirty Bomb began to open up players around the world. The company Splash Damage announced that the start of the closed alpha testing multiplayer shooter.
• If you are the owner of the Xbox 360 console, but did not have time to get a gold subscription and want to play the demo version of the game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, then it’s your time !
• MMORPG Neverwinter beta testing will begin very soon. Testing will be closed, but to get into the beta, you need to register on the official website of the game. Maybe already at least someone pleases oskulnym fans of RPG?

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• In Sidswenskan, a city in Sweden, policemen stormed an apartment in which teens played the game of Call of Duty.
• Arvind Batia, an analyst, estimated the approximate development costs of Grand Theft Auto V, and how many copies Rockstar must sell in order for the game to pay for itself and make a profit.
• Warface game was listed in the Guinness Book of Records. This was reported by the game developers on the official website of the project.
• In the Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg, a competition was announced for the creation of a computer game that could tell about Kupchino.

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