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

Today is remarkable for two wonderful events at once. The first is the Chinese New Year (already passed). The editors of our portal 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 of the gaming and IT industry.

Urgent release!

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

Game industry news

• At the DICE 2012 Summit, the best games of the past year were named . Journey managed to collect 11 awards, including Game of the Year.
• According to the VGLeaks website, an enhanced version of the PlayStation Eye, which is now called Dual Camera, will be included in the standard package of the PlayStation 4 console .
• Norwegian studio Red Thread Games, which bought the license for the development of Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey from Funcom, presented its project on the Kickstarter website.
• The recent bankruptcy of THQ and the move of Vigil Games studio employees to the new Crytek USA studio completely buried 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 here two projects from the guys from Platinum Games will remain exclusive - Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2.
• Studio Zombie Studios has announced its new project, an adventure called Daylight, which is being developed on the Unreal Engine 4 game engine.
• 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 adversely affect the entire game series.
• Ubisoft, a gaming publisher, has announced release dates for the second and third episodes of Assassin's Creed 3's The Tyranny of King Washington expansion.
• 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 have decided on the update cycle of their product. They decided to release a new version of the console annually.
• Futuremark has officially announced that a new version of the 3DMark package will soon be released, which is used to test the performance of computers that are running the Windows operating system.
• If you believe the information that is posted on the EDGE website, then Microsoft decided to start an active fight against piracy and the secondary market, so they will build an online activation system in their new console.

Other news

• Hollywood actor Michael Keaton, whom we know from the films "Batman" and "Beetlejuice", will appear in the upcoming film adaptation of Need for Speed.
• Director JJ Abrams decided to make a movie on the series Portal and Half-Life. He stated this at a DICE conference, where the director spoke with Valve CEO Gabe Newell.
• John Schaefer, chief designer of Civilization 5, has launched the debut project of his independent studio Conifer Games on Kickstarter - a turn-based strategy by Jon Shafer's At the Gates.
• Last year, a new part of the Hitman game series was released. And today, Fox International Productions studio announced that it wants to make a film about Agent No. 47, but slightly changing it.

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