Sony is looking to court even more developers to release their games onto Playstation Mobile for Playstation Certified devices, be that the PS Vita or Android devices. The company is trying to accomplish this by waving the fee publishers were needing to pay in order to publish onto the Playstation Mobile store.
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Indie developers who are working on their games and want to have their next title available on Playstation platforms have a little bit more flexibility now as Sony will allow for game to be sold to customers even if the title is in an Alpha stage of development. Normally buying into a game that is in an alpha stage wouldn’t be something people would normally want to do, say 10 years ago or even 7 years ago, but now it’s a more widely accepted practice, especially after the success of Minecraft.
Atomicom has been around on Android for awhile now having released a fair amount of rather successful games onto Google Play already. One of those games happens to be a rather fun racing game called Switch where players raced down a futuristic track as far and as fast as they can while switching lanes in order to avoid obstacles and beat their opponents.
Yesterday, as probably most of you are aware of, Sony held their Playstation event where the company announced their next console, the Playstation 4. The press conference, which seemed to last forever, also featured a lot of information on mobile aspects that the console will bring with its release. While most of it was focused on the PS Vita, there was some interesting news regarding Android smartphones and tablets as well.
Sony is holding their event and with it comes the likely announcement of their next console, the Playstation 4. We also know that there are rumors that the Playstation 4 could offer up various features that will be remotely controlled through your smartphone and tablet which isn’t really much of a surprise considering their recent push of Playstation Mobile. So we’ve decided to put Sony’s live event here for those of you who want to watch and discuss it as it happens.
The race in the new console wars has begun with proponents for each side. Will the new Xbox 720 (code named Durango), or the the Playstation 4 (code named Orbis)come out on top? Right now it is anyone guess. What is a sure bet though is that both are likely to make use of your smartphone or tablet. We have already seen a glimpse of that future with the current Xbox console and its SmartGlass app.
HTC and Sony are teaming up this month to give away free Android games for those of you who use Playstation Mobile which happens to be available on select HTC devices. If you happen to own one of these Playstation Certified HTC devices, you’ll be able to take advantage of this promotion and score a few free games this month.
The world of tech blogs seems to be rather excited today as a few rumors and announcements have happened with one of the main ones coming from Sony who officially announced (or confirmed depending on how you look at it) their upcoming quad-core, and ultra thing, Xperia Tablet Z. While we still get to deal with one letter names, at least now we can tack on the Xperia brand name on there as well.
Sony is looking to keep gamers attention on their Plastation Mobile service and one thing they have come to realize is that everyone loves free games. So, in order to keep people’s eyes on Playstation Mobile on a regular basis, Sony will be offering up a free game each week for anyone with a Playstation Certified Android device.
Not one to be left out of the holiday sale rush, Sony has put up a few games for sale that are exclusive to their Xperia line of devices. So if you don’t have an Xperia device, you won’t be able to take advantage of this sale. Luckily there are still plenty of sales out there for you to enjoy if you don’t have an Xperia device.