Remember the Playstation Suite for Android devices? Remember how much it promised, only to deliver clunky ports of Crash Bandicoot and Ridge Racer? According to Sony, things are about to change, and its move into mobile gaming is about to get very serious indeed. Read more
Oh dear. Yesterday we reported that the Sony Xperia Play had seemed to have fallen off the back of the Sony Ice Cream Sandwich wagon. Now Sony’s made the official announcement: the Playstation Phone won’t be joining the Android 4.0 party. Ever. Why not? Read on to find out… Read more
Last night Sony held an investor conference to unveil its plans to turn things around, following a terrible fiscal year that’s seen the company project a $6.4 billion loss. The plan? Focus on gaming and, more specifically, force the Playstation brand into every phone going. Read more
After months of peddling a pretty lame offering on its Playstation Suite certified devices, Sony has finally started paying attention to the PS Vita’s underling. Bored of playing Crash Bandicoot? Fret not: Sony’s launching an open SDK to allow developers to bring Playstation-branded games to Android devices in their droves. Read more
HTC has been ‘confirmed’ by an insider source as the first among handset manufacturers outside of Sony to receive Playstation Suite certification. It means that HTC phones will soon be able to run Playstation classics like Ridge Racer.
But does it signpost the failure of HTC’s $40 million investment in OnLive? And will yet another service, piled on top of a myriad other, turn the company’s fortunes around? Read on for our thoughts. Read more
The Sony S1 and Sony S2 Android tablets have been teasing us for months. First Sony showed them off in a pair of pretty pictures back in April then we got a cool Sony Android tablet video teaser last month but still no proper specs. Now we’ve got another intriguing look at them but this time they’re out in the wild.
While the chatter is all in Italian, the first clip stills gives you a good look at the Sony S1 running the PlayStation Suite. In the second video, both the Sony S1 and the clamshell Sony S2 get handled. If you get past the language barrier and smudgy screens, it’s a nice tour of the hardware we can expect to see in September…
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo were not the only big players making moves at E3 this week. Sony Ericsson quietly announced the Xperia Play Experience Pack, a sweet little bundle which includes the DK300 multimedia dock, a pocket USB cable, a music cable to connect the dock to your audio system and the possibility of downloading three free games from Gameloft.
As the first PlayStation Certified Android smartphone, the Xperia Play has a long way to go before transforming Android gaming like we had hoped. However, the Xperia Play Experience Pack is a step in the right direction, offering your choice of any three titles from the following list:
The Xperia Play launch scheduled for April 1st has hit a roadblock for the UK’s O2 network. The carrier confirmed software issues will delay the release on the company’s official blog this morning. According to Stuart Hibber, head of O2’s testing team, “sometimes we discover bugs and issues on a phone… we’ve been working with Sony Ericsson to get these bugs ironed out”.
