Logic - the most interesting news gaming and IT-industry number 14

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News from the world of gaming consoles

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• DualShock 4 is an updated version of the gamepad from Sony.
• February 20 in New York will host a conference of Sony, which, we believe, will announce the announcement of a new generation. As we think, the console will be called the PlayStation 4.
• The Angry Birds Trilogy collection, which includes Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasons with additional bonuses and levels, will be released on Nintendo's Wii and Wii U consoles.
• Sony has found solutions to the issue of compatibility of its new console with games for the current generation of console. The Wall Street Journal announces that the launch of games with the PlayStation 3 will be possible thanks to the cloud service Gaikai.
• At its presentation of Nintendo Direct, the Japanese company made several announcements at once .
• Just the other day the company Wikipad Inc. announced the Wikipad gaming tablet. The company did not copy the company Sony, and divided the tablet itself and the mechanical controller.
• The executive director of OUYA development company Julie Urman announced that all games for their console will be distributed via the free-to-try system.
• To date , over 76 million Xbox 360 consoles and 24 million Kinect units worldwide have been sold .

Kickstarter: dreams come true, but not all

• The tactical shooter Takedown, which is made by the studio Serellan found a publisher. To publish the game, which last year scored 221,000 dollars on Kickstarter, will be the company 505 Games.
• The creator of RPG Wildman Chris Taylor stopped the campaign to raise funds for the development of the game three days before its completion. The game managed to collect 504 thousand dollars from the $ 1.1 million claimed.
• A group of Swedish media students began raising money to fund a documentary called “A Tale of Internet Spaceships”.
• 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.

Game industry news

• Epic Games has suspended the development of the project and announced the closure of the internal team of Impossible Studios - this team has been developing Infinity Blade: Dungeons.
• Just recently, the winners of the DICE 2013 Awards were announced, and today BAFTA 2013 nominees were announced.
• Action Watch Dogs, which received a lot of awards at last year's E3, will be available on the eve of Christmas 2013.
• Studio Blizzard has added battle between players to Diablo III. This developers announced on the official website of the game.
• A fan community called Deadpool Bugle reported that an advertisement for the game was found in the latest issue of the comic.
• The publisher Take-Two has officially announced that it has acquired the rights to a series of WWE wrestling games.

Something about Steam

• Valve has officially launched the Linux version of its Steam service. This was reported on the official website of the service.
• An editor for creating modifications to the RAGE shooter has become available in the Steam service. The editor was released by the Bethesda game publisher.

Companies, people and their plans

• Studio Quantic Dream works not only on Beyond: Two Souls. This became known to us from an interview with David Cage, head of Quantic Dream, which is posted on the Gameindustry portal.
• One of the platform designers LIMBO decided to make a new game. Platform , yes, another platform, called 140.
• Rumors that the Aliens: Colonial Marines shooter will not be released for the Nintendo Wii U console, whose legs grow from the Kotaku website, have been disproved .
• Film Warner Bros. thinks about releasing a version of the popular racing arcade game Spy Hunter.
• Epic Games and Microsoft are working on a secret project on the Gears of War universe.
• The creators of the game Rayman Legends from the studio Ubisoft Montpellier are protesting against the decision of Ubisoft to postpone the release of the project for the autumn.
• Publisher Warner officially announced that it will release a continuation of the series Batman Arkham.
• The developer community decided to award Greg Zeschuk and Ray Music, the founders of BioWare, for their contribution to the development of the gaming industry.

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