Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

On 13 November 2013 IntercontinentalExchange completed its roughly US$11 billion stock-and-cash acquisition of NYSE Euronext, creating a group with 16 exchanges and five clearing houses and a combined market value of US$23 billion.

Sony's going all in with the PS4's exclsuive launch games. One of those games is another entry in the long-running first-person shooter series Killzone.

Activate a Nokia Lumia 2520 between November 22 and January 9. You'll be eligible for a $20 app voucher for the Windows Store.

One of the biggest events on the calendar for the industry and debuts will include the BMW 4 Series Convertible, new MINI, Mercedes S65 AMG and the eagerly-awaited Porsche Macan.

Shaft releases the Hidamari Sketch: Sae & Hiro Graduation OVA, following the art-school apartment building's residents as two of its members sit their final exams and prepare to graduate.

Frozen is a 2013 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 fairy tale "The Snow Queen". Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and written by Lee, it stars the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, and Santino Fontana.

The Attack on Titan OVA collection premieres, three bonus episodes bundled with the manga and Blu-ray releases that fill in side stories around the Survey Corps and the 104th Training Corps.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The sequel to 2012's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the film is the second instalment in The Hobbit trilogy, acting as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Using time series aerial and satellite imagery from 1947 to 2014 of 33 islands, along with historical insight from local knowledge, we have identified five vegetated reef islands that have vanished over this time period and a further six islands experiencing severe shoreline recession.

Mushishi: Hihamukage airs as a special episode of Mushishi, sending wandering Mushi expert Ginko to a village trapped in permanent darkness by an eclipse-linked Mushi tied to a pair of twin sisters.

They say that the more things change, the more they stay the same, and those words could not be more true for the student council of Ousai Private Academy.

Noragami begins broadcast, a supernatural action-comedy adapting Adachitoka's manga about penniless minor god Yato, who takes on odd jobs for five-yen offerings while trying to build a shrine and a following.

AMD boasted performance figure of 856 GFLOPS from the new processor, which utilises a heterogeneous system architecture, where compute and graphics cores share the same system memory.

Hamburg crane operator Knaack-Krane added a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1, a 750-tonne all-terrain mobile crane, to its fleet and put it straight to work assembling wind turbines at the Stößen-Teuchern wind farm near Leipzig, its heaviest job yet.

At the 56th Grammys at Staples Center, Daft Punk won Album of the Year for Random Access Memories and Record of the Year for 'Get Lucky'. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won Best New Artist and performed 'Same Love' as Queen Latifah officiated a mass wedding of 33 couples; Lorde's 'Royals' won Song of the Year.

Kuroko no Basket 2nd Season NG-shuu collects animated blooper shorts bundled with the second season's BD/DVD volumes, produced by Production I.G as a comic aside to the basketball series.

Little Busters!: EX is a bonus TV special continuing the Little Busters! anime, introducing newcomer Saya Tokido and the mystery she brings into Riki Naoe's life.

Brain's Base releases a bonus Natsume Yuujinchou OVA, following Takashi Natsume helping a snow yokai search for a memory she has lost during the winter's first snowfall.

Porsche formally opened its expanded Leipzig factory, adding a body shop and paint shop so the plant could build the Macan compact SUV in-house rather than shipping bodies in from Germany's other Porsche site. The plant has been Porsche's most precise production line ever since.

Nokia will reportedly announce the Nokia X (aka Normandy) Android device

Zaha Hadid Architects' fluid, BIM-engineered Dongdaemun Design Plaza opened to the public in Seoul, South Korea, transforming a former stadium site into a landmark arts and design hub.

Diablo III's first expansion strips out the launch version's real-money and gold Auction Houses and reworks loot to drop almost exclusively for the player's own class, restoring the moment-to-moment combat that made the series great.

Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad ñ specifically Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Chimelong Group opened Ocean Kingdom on Hengqin Island near Zhuhai and Macao, whose roughly 48.75-million-litre aquarium set the record for the largest in the world. The glass-and-steel structure needed years of specialized marine engineering to safely hold and display that volume of water.

New Start screen introduced in Windows Phone 8.1. Youíll be able to have your image on the Start screen, but itíll show through the various Live tiles that can be set to transparent. It also animates really nicely thanks to a parallax effect.

The Russo brothers' Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a political-thriller sequel, opened in US theaters on 4 April 2014 as part of Phase Two.

MUSHI-SHI The Next Passage premieres, Artland's sequel series to Mushishi, returning wandering Mushishi Ginko to villages troubled by mysterious phenomena caused by ancient beings called Mushi.

Production I.G's Haikyuu!! begins airing, a sports comedy following short but determined Shoyo Hinata as he joins Karasuno High School's volleyball team alongside his rival-turned-teammate Tobio Kageyama.

George Strait won Entertainer of the Year at the 49th Academy of Country Music Awards on 6 April 2014 in Las Vegas, with Kacey Musgraves taking Album of the Year and Merle Haggard honoured on his 77th birthday.

Tuned to run well on devices with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, roughly half the acceptable minimum for current Windows tablets. Systems without touchscreens will boot to the desktop by default instead of to the Start screen.

The television anime No Game, No Life begins airing, a MADHOUSE-produced fantasy comedy adapting Yuu Kamiya's light novels about shut-in sibling gamers Sora and Shiro summoned to a world where every conflict is settled by games.

Masaaki Yuasa's TV adaptation of Taiyou Matsumoto's table tennis manga begins airing, following high schoolers Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto and Yutaka "Peko" Hoshino as they navigate the competitive table tennis world.

Shido Itsuka, who used to be a normal high school student at Raizen High, meets the first Spirit, Tohka, and awakens his power to "seal the Spirit's power".

The Robbins family's five-generation oyster farm opens an open-air saloon on the western shore of Hood Canal, serving oysters pulled from the water in view.

The plant comprises more than five million solar panels that span the equivalent of two Central Parks in the desert between Yuma and Phoenix. It generates 290 megawatts of poweróenough electricity to fuel 230,000 homes in neighboring California at peak capacity. Costing a total of $1.8 billion to construct, received a million-dollar loan from the Loan Programs Office.

The persistent navigation bar is a welcomed change. Previously, users had to swipe down from the top to access it, and while it was much better in 8.1, discoverability was an issue. Now, the green bar will always be there for users. In addition, it highlights Top charts, Categories and Collections, which should go a long, long way in making it easier to find new apps and games.

The company is seeking to expand the number of 'Explorers' in order to improve the hardware and software that provide the Glass experience, we are told. This new open beta program is for US residents only and the price remains at an eye-watering $1,500 for potential new buyers (Glass Guinea pigs).

Studio GoHands releases the Seitokai Yakuindomo* Season 2 OVA line, a run of bonus episodes bundled with the manga's limited-edition volumes that continue the raunchy student-council comedy at Ousai Academy.

Godzilla is a 2014 monster film directed by Gareth Edwards. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.

Time Out hands half of a 19th-century market hall to the cooks its own critics review, and opens it as a food hall where the magazine, not the highest bidder, picks the kitchens. The format becomes the template Time Out exports to a dozen cities.

Originally expected to be released as a launch title on the next-gen Microsoft and Sony consoles before Christmas but was delayed until this spring so the developers could "polish and fine tune every detail"

Disney's Maleficent, a live-action retelling of Sleeping Beauty from the villain's side, opened in US theaters on 30 May 2014 with Angelina Jolie in the title role. It grossed about US$760 million worldwide.

Noteworthy: Nissan ZEOD RC is a hybrid electric racing car with a chassis similar in design to the DeltaWing. Porsche's brand new LMP1.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American animated fantasy film written and directed by Dean DeBlois, based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, it is the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and the second installment in the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy.

Swiss Federal Railways brought the new four-track Löwenstrasse station into service 16 metres beneath Zürich's main station, the first stage of the Durchmesserlinie cross-city link.

El Hierro's Gorona del Viento plant, combining five wind turbines with a pumped-hydro reservoir, was inaugurated to make the smallest Canary Island the first in the world able to run entirely on renewable energy. Excess wind power pumps water uphill for use when the wind drops.

Singapore's Sports Hub, anchored by the 55,000-seat National Stadium and its retractable dome, opened to the public on 30 June 2014 after roughly five years of construction. The billion-dollar complex also includes an indoor aquatic centre, a multi-purpose arena, and a water sports centre.

The console version of the first Civilization Revolution game barely cracked the NPD's US top 10, with 150,000 sales in its first month on the Xbox 360 before dropping off the sales listing entirely. Meanwhile, the iOS version was the ninth best-selling game of the iPhone for all of 2009, coming in just behind million-sellers like Flight Control. The iPad version has frequently reappeared on the iTunes top paid app list even years after it release, usually during 2K's periodic app sales.

Tokyo Ghoul begins broadcast, Studio Pierrot's adaptation of Sui Ishida's manga set in a Tokyo terrorized by flesh-eating ghouls, following college student Ken Kaneki after a near-fatal encounter leaves him transformed into one.