Android 15, iPhone love. Sega has just announced that its flagship sports title Virtua Tennis will be heading to Android, with a first preview next week at CES in Las Vegas. It’s been designed with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play’s controls in mind, and been optimized for phones with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, typically used by both Sony Ericsson and HTC.
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY, otherwise known as the Playstation Phone, has won itself exclusive rights to FIFA 12 on Android today, as the game’s launched for free on the sliding handset. After a drastic PAYG price-drop, is it a desperate bid to boost handset sales? Read more
The world’s first PlayStation certified smartphone has locked horns with the number one sports franchise on the planet. This holiday season the Xperia Play will have first dibs at FIFA 12 thanks to a “limited time exclusive agreement”. All other Android devices will have to sit on the sidelines and wait until the general release on February 21, 2012. But wait, that’s not all.
Boom goes the dynamite. Now that we’ve wrapped up the major E3 press conferences and delivered hoards of gaming news, it’s time to slow things down and return with a fresh edition of the US Update. We’ve got all the heavy hitters on tap this morning, let’s begin.
The Xperia Play Experience Pack has just been announced by Sony Ericsson at E3. The pack includes the DK300 multimedia dock, a pocket USB cable, a music cable to connect the dock to your audio system and three games from Gameloft.
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:
UPDATE: Mojang has confirmed that Minecraft Pocket Edition will hit the the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play before any other phone, taking advantage of its controls. No release date just yet, sadly.
Sony Ericsson has sent out an invite to its Xperia Play party at E3 and it seems to be riffing heavily on imagery from Minecraft. There’s a blocky background and a small pick mining pixellated minerals plus a rather heavy-handed Minecraft reference in the headline: “Stay in the light and take refuge with Sony Ericsson to keep the creepers at bay”…
It’s not Ice Cream Sandwich, but a big update is hitting the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and Xperia Arc next week in the UK, we’ve confirmed. The over the air Android 2.3.3 update will bring the Facebook inside Xperia service to the phones, which we also understand will hit the Xperia X10 with the upcoming Android 2.3 update, and come preloaded on the Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro, as well as all new Android Sony Ericsson phones going forward.
Two fine bits of Sony news this morning. First, the Xperia Play has been given a due date, bound for a US launch compliments of Verizon Wireless on May 26. Second, we have details on the PlayStation Network outage apology — ready to find out what free goodies Sony’s bringing to the dinner table?
