The main characters of Final Fantasy XIII-2, Sera Farron and Noel Kreiss, will receive costumes from Mass Effect 3, reports the CVG portal. BioWare studio and Square Enix publisher will release a themed add-on for the game. According to CVG, the release date has not yet been announced, but Siliconera writes that the add-on will become available on March 27.

The Anglo-Dutch oil and gas corporation Royal Dutch Shell has signed the first contract for the exploration and production of shale gas in China, the company said in a press release . Shell, together with China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), will develop fields in the Fushun-Yongchuan block in Sichuan province in the west of the country. The area of ​​the studied block is 3.5 thousand square kilometers.

Michael Curtiz's film Casablanca turns 70 this year. The official premiere of the film took place at the end of November 1942. However, in the USA they decided to celebrate the film’s anniversary a little earlier than expected. On March 21, 2012, almost half a thousand American cinemas will again release “Casablanca” on screens - however, only one showing is planned in each of the establishments.

Director Darren Aronofsky will begin filming Noah in July 2012, according to Deadline. The film will be a retelling of the biblical story of Noah's Ark. Aronofsky previously stated that the prepared script was quite complex for film adaptation. Therefore, the director first created a comic based on the same plot. Canadian artist Niko Henrichon worked with Aronofsky on the graphic novel. New Regency and Paramount are supporting Aronofsky's new project.

Footballer of the English club Bolton Fabrice Muamba, who lost consciousness during the FA Cup quarter-final match with Tottenham, woke up from a coma and spoke with his relatives. Muamba tried to find out the result of the match from his father, writes The Daily Mirror. “Did we lose?” asked the football player. The player's father said that the match was interrupted due to 23-year-old Muamba fainting.

The agreement on the transformation of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) into the Eurasian Economic Union (EEC) was not signed, as Kazakhstan opposed the agreement. stated this in an interview with Russia Today TV channel President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko . As Lukashenko explained, the Belarusian side supported Russia, which proposed to speed up the process of signing the agreement.

The editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Vladimir Sungorkin, responded to the head of the RIA Novosti agency, Svetlana Mironyuk, who accused his publication of conducting a custom campaign against RIA. The text of Sungorkin’s appeal to Mironyuk was transmitted to Lenta.ru by Olesya Nosova, deputy editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Manchester City - Chelsea Manchester City head coach Roberto Mancini. Photo © AFP Late in the evening of March 21 in the English Football Championship, Manchester City defeated Chelsea at home with a score of 2:1. Chelsea defender Gary Cahill opened the scoring before Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri gave City victory.

From a billion or more, Lenta.ru talked to experts on ultra-expensive government procurement The National Association of Purchasing Institutes conducted a study of government procurement exceeding a billion rubles. The experts' conclusion was disappointing - about half of the contracts were concluded with a clear infringement of the principles of competition.

Two Molotov cocktails were thrown into the office of Texas State Senate member Wendy Davis. Fox News reports this. The attack on an office located in Fort Worth occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 20, local time. The senator himself was not in the room at that moment, but two employees were there. No harm done. The details of the incident are unknown. Eyewitnesses only saw how the attacker started a fire and disappeared.

election promises Most of Vladimir Putin's seem realistic and worthy of support to Russians. this on March 21 The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion reported . 37 percent of respondents believe that Putin will fulfill most of his election promises. 41 percent believe some promises will be kept. 15 percent think that most promises will not be realized. Most people, 59 percent, believe in keeping promises related to social policy.

In May 2006, the International Association of Motion Picture Companies set the Swedish police against the world's most popular file-sharing service, The Pirate Bay. During the raid, all Pirate Bay servers were seized. The resource came back to life three days later, but learned a lesson - the more inaccessible the place where the equipment is located, the better. The torrent site began raising funds to purchase the platform, but the deal did not materialize.

The laser at the National Laser Fusion Facility set a new energy record. This was reported by Nature News. The record was set on March 15, but this became known only now. As part of the experiment, 192 lasers operating in the ultraviolet range simultaneously created a pulse with an energy of over 2 megajoules.

Russian center forward of the NHL club Pittsburgh Penguins Evgeni Malkin scored five points in the match with the Winnipeg Jets, which his team won with a score of 8:4. In this meeting, Malkin scored two goals and gave three assists, the league’s official website reports. Malkin's first goal in the game against Winnipeg became his 200th in the NHL regular season. Malkin was named the second star of the match.

St. Petersburg politician Marina Salye, known as an active critic of Vladimir Putin , died on the morning of March 21 at the age of 77 from a massive heart attack. As reported by Fontanka.ru, this was stated by the League of Women Voters. Marina Salye was a people's deputy of Russia in 1990-1993, as well as a participant in the Constitutional Conference, convened in 1993 to prepare an alternative draft of the new Russian Constitution.