Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY launching with over 60 games



Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY, the world’s first PlayStation certified smartphone, is now on sale in shops in the UK, Germany,Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan  with further availability in an additional 6 markets over the next 2 weeks. The Xperia PLAY launches with more than 60 games from the industry’s biggest content providers including Sony Computer Entertainment, Gameloft, Electronic Arts and Glu Mobile. The range of games available to download at launch is a combination of original PlayStation titles, well known 3D titles that take the full advantage of the graphical capabilities and controls of Xperia PLAY as well as popular casual games all optimized for the unique game pad.

Sony Ericsson has formed partnerships with over 20 developers from big publishers to independents, from middleware providers Havok and Unity to engaging Android developers, to ensure a steady flow of new titles for Xperia PLAY. Some of the highlights include:

    * Assassins Creed Altair’s Chronicles HD – One of the most popular gaming franchises, with action, puzzles and stealth gameplay set in the Middle East of the Crusades
    * Need for Speed – Grab the wheel of the fastest, hottest, and most powerful cars in the world. One of the most successful video game franchises of all times.
    * Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell – The latest instalment in this key franchise. Special Forces operative and renegade Sam Fisher returns to fight a corrupt secret agency.
          o Dungeon Defenders Second Wave – Stunning graphics, intense gameplay and exclusive on Xperia PLAY.
          o Gun Bros – Choose your weapon and join the ‘Freakishly Rugged’ action heroes Percy and Francis Gun as they take on a terrifying menagerie of alien beings.
          o Galaxy on Fire 2 – Escape into space with hours of deep gameplay and mind blowing graphics in this space exploration game.
          o Guns ‘n’ Glory – You lead a gang of bandits in this popular and award-winning casual tower defence game with a hilarious western theme.
          o Worms – Send your worm platoons into battle in this award-winning turn-based strategy game.
          o Zenonia 2 – The lost memories – Classic and popular RPG. Numerous quests following an epic storyline.
          o Backstab – An epic 3rd person pirate adventure that incorporates intense sword fights and other dynamic combat modes. Launching on April 14thexclusively on Xperia PLAY.
          o N.O.V.A.2 – Awesome graphics and intense multiplayer gameplay. This First-Person Shooter makes its Android debut exclusively on Xperia PLAY.

In addition Sony Ericsson is happy to confirm that Asphalt 6 – the latest instalment of one of the leading and top-selling racing games will be available for free exclusively on Xperia PLAY.

The games are downloadable via the “Xperia™ PLAY launcher”, an application that is activated by sliding open the gamepad.  The “Xperia PLAY launcher” recommends games and enables consumers to search for top titles optimised for Xperia PLAY on Android market.

There is also a range of PlayStation original games available at launch (in select markets initially). These are comprised of a pre-install of the PS One classic Crash Bandicoot and a further 5 PlayStation original games available to download via the PlayStation Pocket application in Xperia PLAY.

    * Cool Boarders 2 – Time to pick up that snowboard again and rip through the snow with 16 intense racetracks.
    * Destruction Derby – Original car carnage.  Buckle yourself into a new car and destroy it but send your opponents to the junkyard first.
    * Jumping Jack Flash – A first person platformer like no other. Leap around 6 colourful worlds in the cockpit of a robotic rabbit, hunting for the evil galactic property developer Baron Aloha.
    * MediEvil – Resurrected 100 years later you have returned to defeat the sorcerer Zarok.  Perhaps the world’s least worthy hero, you set out to save the land once again–for the first time.
    * Syphon Filter – Become Gabe Logan: Guerrilla war expert. A man on a personal crusade to bring down an international terrorist ring and eliminate a deadly virus.

More games from Sony Computer Entertainment will be added to Xperia PLAY on a regular basis.

Dominic Neil-Dwyer, Head of Market Development at Sony Ericsson commented: “It’s great to get Xperia PLAY into consumers’ hands at last.  This is just the start and the future is exciting based on all the interest and support we have from the game industry.  A steady stream of fresh innovative content will be coming to Xperia PLAY over the coming months.”

Xperia PLAY will be available in the following markets starting from today and in the next two weeks: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia, India and Portugal. As announced at Mobile World Congress Xperia PLAY will be in stores in the US market with Verizon Wireless this spring.



Appendix: Games available within the first week of launch:

    * Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior from Digital Legends (pre-installed)
    * FIFA 2010 from EA Mobile (pre-installed**)
    * Sims 3 from EA Mobile (pre-installed**)
    * Star Battalion from Gameloft (pre-installed**)
    * Tetris from EA mobile (pre-installed**)
    * Asphalt 6 from Gameloft (free to download)
    * Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave from Trendy Entertainment
    * Galaxy on Fire 2 from Fishlabs
    * Assassins Creed from Gameloft
    * Need for Speed SHIFT from  EA Mobile
    * Worms from EA Mobile
    * Nova 2 from Gameloft
    * Modern Combat Black Pegasus from Gameloft
    * Guns n Glory from Handygames
    * Reckless Racing from Polarbit
    * Real Football 2011from Gameloft
    * Gun Bros from Glu Mobile
    * Racer Luma from Arcade/Unity
    * Cordy from SilverTree Media
    * Aporkalypse from Handygames
    * Brothers in Arms Global Front from Gameloft
    * Guerrilla Bob from Angry Mob Games/Unity
    * Let’s Golf 2 from Gameloft
    * Zenonia 2 from Gamevil
    * Cyberlords from Handygames
    * Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock Mobile from Glu Mobile
    * Age of Zombies from Halfbrick Studios
    * Spectral Souls from HyperDevBox Japan
    * Splinter Cell Conviction from Gameloft
    * Air Attack from Art in Games/Unity
    * Armageddon Squadron from Polarbit
    * Uno from Gameloft
    * InfeCCt from Handygames
    * Spiderman total Mayhem from Gameloft
    * Millionaire City from Digital Chocolate
    * Avatar from Gameloft
    * Raging Thunder 2from Polarbit
    * Homerun Battle 3D from Com2us Games
    * Aftermath XHD from Jakyl
    * I Must Run from GameLion
    * Baseball Superstars 2011from Gamevil
    * Ground Effect Pro from Jakyl
    * ZeNonia from Gamevil
    * Super KO Boxing  2 from Glu Mobile
    * Farm Story from Team Lava
    * Wave Blazer from Polarbit
    * Soccer Superstars from Gamevil
    * Battle Bears from Skyvu
    * Tower Blocks New York from Digital Chocolate
    * Super Dynamite Fishing from Handygames
    * Iron Sight from Polarbit
    * Toonwarz from Polarbit
    * Restaurant Story from Team Lava
    * Escape from AMA
    * Raving Babies from AMA
    * Bakery Story from Team Lava
    * Denki Blocks! Deluxe from Jakyl
    * Rollercoaster Rush from Digital Chocolate

PlayStation original games:

    * Crash Bandicoot from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    * Cool Boarders 2 from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    * Destruction Derby from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    * Jumping Jack Flash from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    * MediEvil from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    * Syphon Filter™ from Sony Computer Entertainment

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Xperia PLAY game sales have been unimpressive



According to a report by CVG, Android Market downloads of games specifically designed to run on Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY handset have been extremely low. As evidence in its case, the report hones in on five Play titles that all have under 1,000 total Market downloads: Cool Boarders 2, 100–500; Destruction Derby, 500–1,000; Jumping Flash, 50–100; MediEvil, 100–500; and Syphon Filter, 100–500. Despite this, the handset’s creator is undeterred. “There’s no concerns, it’s a revolutionary device, it’s shaking up the market, we’re very pleased with it,” said Dominic Heil-Dwyer, head of market development at Sony Ericsson. “In terms of getting the PlayStation Certified program out, generally, we’re very happy. I think we’ll make a full assessment of if it has achieved our expectations fully, further down the line, so we’re very happy.” Launched in early April, the device pairs classic gaming controls with the now familiar large-touchscreen smartphone form factor. The Xperia PLAY is scheduled to make its Stateside debut on Verizon Wireless in the coming months.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY loads PS1 games from ISO images with a bit of hack-magic

The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY promised to play PlayStation One games and it does – but only ones you get from the dedicated market. An industrious dev is working on (an unofficial) way to load any PS1 game from an ISO image of its disk and play it in the Xperia PLAY’s own emulator.



It’s still a work in progress, but you can check out this video of an Xperia PLAY running Crash Bandicoot 3 to see how far the develoment has gone.

Here’s the video:



One of the things that are still under development is an easy to use frontend (both GUI and command line) for converting disc images into the proper format for use on the phone. Titles that are distributed on multiple disks aren’t supported either.

Again, this isn’t a custom emulator but a way to make the official (and arguably best) emulator to play games other than the one you get from the Xperia PLAY game market. This means when it’s done you’ll have to provide your own ISOs (presumably by ripping them from a disc you bought all this time ago).

There’s nothing available for download yet unfortunately. Still, it’s an interesting project for everyone who bought an Xperia PLAY and it’s worth keeping an eye on. Check out the XDA-Developers forum thread for more info.

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Minecraft Pocket Edition comes exclusively for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, themed handset up on eBay




Just as promised, today Sony Ericsson sent us a press release that the mobile version of the hugely popular Minecraft is coming as an exclusive title to the game-oriented Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.

The title is now Minecraft Pocket Edition, and Mojang, the developer behind it, even put a themed Sony Ericsson Xperia Play up on eBay for sale. At last check, it had accumulated $1350 in bids, so there's some healthy interest towards such a souvenir.

Minecraft is the most downloaded paid independent game for the PC, and porting it over for exclusive use of the physical gamepad on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is certainly a smart move to boost interest in the handset, regardless of what you think about the design of the limited edition Minecraft phone on eBay.

The price of Minecraft Pocket Edition for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play on Android Market is $6.99.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY gets 720p video recording, automatic display brightness adjustment


The headline may come as a shock to some but it’s true. It seems in an effort to make a great gaming phone, Sony Ericsson forgot to add some basic features in the Xperia PLAY that are expected in a phone that costs as much as it does.



Thankfully, the error has been corrected and after the latest firmware update, the Xperia PLAY is now capable of recording videos in 720p resolution, that too with continuous auto-focus. You will also be able to get the option toggle the automatic display brightness option from the settings menu. Interestingly, this second option is absent from the latest 2.3.4 update on both the Xperia arc as well as the Xperia neo.

Unless you are too busy gaming on your Xperia PLAY, we would recommend you to update your device to the latest firmware.





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Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY featured in a new ad campaing: release your inner gamer




Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY, the first dedicated gaming phone happens to also be the first PlayStation-certified device, happens to also star in a series of weird yet awesome ads, which just got their latest addition. In the four new videos, the new Xperia PLAY calls you to release your inner gamer and play when you take a break from work.

The longest of them focuses on a sewer worker, which you - might expect - is not the funniest job out there. But having the Xperia PLAY sure would help him stay cheerful. The Xperia PLAY is available on Verizon and while it still has a pretty scarce selection of PS titles, it recently added Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light to its titles. The handset comes with a slide out PS-like joypad, which frees the 4 inches of screen estate for your viewing pleasure.













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Just how hard is it to distract a gamer from their Xperia PLAY? We try the ultimate distraction technique to find out!

*No cake was wasted in the filming of this video. This is EA's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit in action.

Ae sad mi recite ...sta je bolje da se uzme...Ipod 4th ili Xperia Play,cene su im jako slicne,al mene zanima sta je bolje sto se tice igrica.
Vidim da Xperia Play ima dosta jaci procesor i veci ekran,al kakvo je stanje sa igricama,dal ih ima vise za ipod nego za ovo cudo?

Uzmi iPod rekao sam ti već, ako želiš igrice, ovo je svakako udobnije za igranje, pošto je igranje na 3.5 inča paćenje (osim onih jednostavnih igara, moje mišljenje probao sam, no liferi ne moraju da me demantuju), ali ima manje igara.

Ma da bre upravu si....hvala...al ovo mi se ucinilo stvarno zanimljivim