Logic - the most interesting news gaming and IT-industry №13

Today is significant at once with two wonderful events. The first is the Chinese New Year (already passed). The editors of our portal heartily congratulate all manufacturers and gamers from the Middle Kingdom on this event. And the second is, of course, the release of the next series of “Logic” - the most interesting news from the gaming and IT industry.

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• If you believe the Gematsu website, then at the start of sales of the PlayStation 4 console , the price tag will be set at $ 426.
• The Game Developers Conference, or abbreviated KRI, will be held this year from May 15 to May 17 at the Cosmos Hotel.

Gaming News

• At the DICE 2012 summit ceremony, the best games of the past year were announced. Journey managed to collect 11 awards, including the “Game of the Year”.
• According to the VGLeaks website, a standard PlayStation Eye version, now referred to as Dual Camera, will be included in the standard package of the PlayStation 4 console.
• Norwegian studio Red Thread Games, which bought the license to develop Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey from Funcom, presented its project on the Kickstarter website.
• The recent bankruptcy of the company THQ and the rush of employees of the studio Vigil Games into a new studio Crytek USA completely buried the plans for the development of the Darksiders series.
• Despite the fact that Wii U has already lost two exclusives: Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor Edge and Rayman Legends, but two projects from the guys from Platinum Games will remain exclusives - Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2.
• Studio Zombie Studios has announced its new project, adventure game called Daylight, which is being developed on the Unreal Engine 4.
• Crystal Dynamic has officially announced the completion of work on Tomb Raider and the sending of the project "for gold."
• The fourth game of the Mass Effect series will definitely appear , but Bioware employees do not want to call it Mass Effect 4, because this can have a bad effect on the entire game series.
• Game publisher Ubisoft has announced the release dates of the second and third episodes of The Tyranny of King Washington addition to Assassin's Creed 3.
• The company 505 Games, after all the rumors, made the official announcement of the game Sniper Elite V2 for the Nintendo Wii U console.

IT industry news

• The developers of the OUYA console decided on the update cycle for their product. They decided to release a new version of the console annually.
• Futuremark officially announced that a new version of the 3DMark package will be released soon, which is used to test the performance of computers running Windows.
• If you believe the information that is available on the EDGE website, then Microsoft has decided to launch an active struggle against piracy and the secondary market, therefore, they will integrate an online activation system into their new console.

Other news

• Hollywood actor Michael Keaton, whom we know from the films “Batman” and “The Beatlejus”, will appear in the upcoming film adaptation of Need for Speed.
• Directed by JJ Abrams decided to make a movie on the series Portal and Half-Life. He stated this at the DICE conference, where the director spoke with Valve’s head of business, Gabe Newell.
• John Schafer, the chief designer of Civilization 5, put forward the debut project of his independent studio Conifer Games on Kickstarter - a turn-based strategy of Jon Shafer's At the Gates.
• Last year, the new part of the game series Hitman was released. Today, Fox International Productions studio announced that it wants to make a film about Agent No. 47, but having slightly changed it.

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