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  • WP7 Mango Launch Event Tomorrow Adds 500+ New Features

    Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft confirmed today at the Japanese Microsoft Developer Forum 2011 tomorrow’s WP7 Mango preview event. He referred to it as the “Mango launch event”. He also told the audience that they “came to market with Windows Phone about a year later than” he wished they had.

    You can catch the reference to the 500 additional features to be added at the 0:50 point. The features we are currently aware of are: IE9, Fast app switching, Twitter Integration + Messenger, Turn-by-turn navigation, Dictation support, Unified Inbox, Bing Audio/Vision, New languages, Podcast support on Zune and Smart DJ, to name a few.

    Windows Phone 7 is also set to arrive in Japan Mango ready later this year.

  • Killzone 3 Double XP Weekend is Starting Soon

    After the Double XP Weekend for Call of Duty – Black Ops, Sony has now announced Double XP Weekend for its acclaimed exclusive shooter “Killzone 3″. The timing of the event is listed as:

    Starting this Friday, May 20 at 17:00 PM UK time, and lasting until Monday, May 23 at 10:00 AM UK time, all XP you earn in Killzone 3’s multiplayer matches will be doubled.

    PSN Welcome Back program was detailed by Sony earlier this week, users are able to claim a free copy of Killzone: Liberation for the Playstation Portable as part of this program. With this extra game and this Double XP event, looks like Helghast will be invading your house this weekend.

    This is not the only thing Sony is offering for compensation of the PSN downtime, apparently there is more unannounced news regarding Killzone which will be revealed later. Stay tuned to us to get the latest on these updates.

    Source: Playstation Blog