Alright well maybe it isn’t a ‘satanic’ message when one of the videos is played backwards but it is pretty freaky nonetheless. Sony Ericsson, however, is continuing with the tradition they have created with releasing more slightly disturbing promo videos for the Xperia Play. Of course this makes us happy and we hope they see TV time.
Tag: Xperia play
Well CTIA has started today and one bit of news coming out already regarding the Xperia Play is that at least one North American model of the phone will be heading for Verizon. While we say one model, that is because there are rumors it will eventually land on all carriers in the USA. However, the Verizon one is the first one spied with actual branding.
Sony Ericsson giving away Xperia Plays during pre-launch competitions. Great if you’re in the UK.
Well all of our UK-based readers are getting a little bit of good news this morning regarding the Xperia Play. It seems that Sony Ericsson is giving you a chance to win one during a bunch of pre-launch competitions. There are a total of 10 Xperia Play phones being given away through various news sites between now and launch time.
As it gets closer to the launch of the Xperia Play Android gaming phone we are seeing more developers making their games compatible with the slide out control pad that the Xperia Play features. This is mostly due to the button mapping being included in the Android SDK. Polarbit has now jumped into the Xperia Play action.
Guerrilla Bob is a top-down 3D shoot-em-up game that spans across multiple platforms and offers up some great co-op multiplayer gaming action. We saw this at GDC 2011 on the Xperia Play demo units and fiddle around with it and it really is a fun game. Now it is officially out on the Android Market for you to grab.
Once in awhile it is great to see people sticking by their believes, even if they are facing what could be a pretty promising career at a major company. In this instance, Sony has been looking around the internet for hackers who jailbreak various devices to add to their development team and one person they asked was Koush.
Creepy sweatshop surgery Xperia Play commercial gets a part 2, shows the donor. Still keeping it creepy.
If you have been wondering where the thumbs came from in the previous Xperia Play commercial that was released a couple weeks ago showing the Android mascot getting human thumbs surgically attached onto him in some remote dirty sweatshop, you’re in luck! Seems Sony Ericsson has addressed this question in yet another video.
Tegra Zone, which is nVidia’s marketplace to buy/download Tegra 2 optimized games for your Android devices that have a Tegra 2 inside them, seems to be the source of an interesting bit of information. While we had planned to post this yesterday, we were waiting to find out some other information regarding this first.
HandyGames have been really pushing their Android line-up of games lately with a release or update at least once a month. March seems to be no exception to the rule as they have just released Cyberlords onto the Android Market. This is a top-down isometric shoot-em-up games mixed in with RPG elements at the same time.
As you may have expected, the Xperia Play was all over the place at GDC 2011 and we had plenty of time to play lots of games on them. While most games being played are already out for Android devices, some are not, such as the Bruce Lee game. There was also a lot of news about the Xperia Play and also a lot of news missing.