In a collaboration between Sony PlayStation Gulf and Dubai Festival City, PlayStation SingStar Karaoke Nights took place every Saturday over the months of December and January. The participants came together to show off their talents and enjoy pop songs from all generations. Abba, Queen, Britney Spears and Pink were no doubt among the favourites and kept everyone’s feet tapping rhythmically.
The Panel of judges
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The second round of the X-cite 2v2 Modern Warfare 2 Challenge took place last week in X-cite Marina Mall, in the city of Kuwait (in the country of Kuwait). Over the course of two days, more than 60 teams battled it out in Modern Warfare 2 to climb the ranking, aiming to be crowned the champions of Kuwait. Eight winning clans were qualified for the Grand Final, slated to take place in the X-cite Al-Rai Showroom, on the very next day, Feb 6, 2010.
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According to a recent report released by Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE), a strategic market research and consulting firm focused on electronic entertainment and the emerging download and mobile game markets, Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade sales were up 34% year-on-year to $103.4 million (not including downloadable content, community games, or games on demand services). As per the report, the average price of XBLA games “increased rapidly” during 2009, from an average of $8.33 in 2008 to $9.12.
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It’s officially official, Dante’s Inferno is not being released in the Middle East. In a move that surprised absolutely no one, EA states that, “Electronic Arts has decided not to release Dante’s Inferno in the Middle East after an evaluation process which is based on consumer tastes, preferences, platform mix and other factors.”
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In a blog post by Marc Whitten; Xbox Live’s General Manager, Microsoft has officially announced that it will end Xbox Live support for the original Xbox games console, as the service will officially be stopped on April 15th. Xbox Live has been running for over 7 years now, and 9 years after launching the first Xbox gaming console, it’s online functionality will come to an end. Microsoft will start by shutting off auto-renewals for all Xbox Live members who use the online gaming service with the original Xbox. Marking this sad announcement, Bungie is inviting all Xbox and Halo 2 fans to go online on April 14th for one last hoorah; one final farewell and one final opportunity for all fans to kick their asses at Halo 2.
The original saddening announcement follows after the jump:
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Companies must talk to their investors, reporting how well they’ve done in the last quarter, and discuss their future plans to make more money. THQ’s president and CEO, Brian Farrell, has revealed many things in THQ’s fiscal third quarter report. He announced that sequels were incoming for Saint’s Row (slated for 2012), Red Faction (slated for 2011), Darksiders and even de Blob. In the four weeks following its release, THQ has shipped 1.2 million copies of Darksiders in the US alone. THQ considers that a success and is already planning a sequel for their fiscal year 2012. THQ also reported a net income of $1.4 million and sales of $701.5 million in the final nine months of the year, compared with a net loss of $334.2 million, in the prior-year period.
He continued, “We expect to demonstrate continued improvement in fiscal 2011, after the significant turnaround in fiscal 2010. We believe this momentum will carry us into fiscal 2012, when we expect to see accelerated growth with three major core game titles scheduled. Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine, a sequel to Darksiders, and a third generation of our popular Saints Row franchise.”
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Aymeric Evennou, Community Developer at Ubisoft, working on several projects such as Red Steel 2 and R.U.S.E., has teased his Twitter account followers by stating that he is working with fellow Community Developer Kimi Matsuzaki on a “thrilling new project.” He goes on to say that this new project is coming next week: “Big announcement coming up next week and I mean BIG!”. We posted few days ago news about a rumor circulating in France that Ubisoft is working on a new Soccer / Football title, but we believe it might just end up being the new Ghost Recon title. Stay tuned for more updates.
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