Back in the beginning of November Sega had announced that Sonic CD for Android would not be coming with support for the Xperia Play. It now appears that Sega has changed their minds and when Sonic CD is released onto the Android Market, it will support the Xperia Play controls.
OnLive doesn’t officially support the Xperia Play controls, at least not yet but thanks to a new app on the Android Market there is some good news for Xperia Play owners who wish to use the controls that come with the device. This new app is called the OnLive Helper app.
You may or may not remember back in August when Mojang put up a limited edition Minecraft themed Xperia Play for sale on eBay. By the time the auction was over it had sold for a ridiculous $1525 although all the proceeds were given to a charity of Mojang’s choice. Well another one has appeared on eBay.
We have reported on this title a few times and now it seems that it will finally be making a debut onto the Xperia Play as a temporary exclusive next week. The PSN title, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be landing on Xperia Play devices early next week.
We’ve been keeping an eye out for when FIFA 12 would land on Android, or more specifically the Xperia Play, these days. Originally slated for a November release, it was looking like it could be early December instead. Well EA has gotten FIFA 12 out as of today for the Xperia Play keeping with their November release time frame.
You may or may not have caught our article about how to play Shadowgun on an Asus Transformer while using an Android phone as a gamepad to play it. One of the items needed to accomplish this was a program called DroidMote which has a server and client app you need to install.
The Quake series of FPS (first-person shooter) games has been popular for a very long time since it was up there as one of the first FPS series of games released. Quake III Arena, which landed in 1999 was very popular and now thanks to Zeus Arena and the ioquake3 Engine, you can play it on your Xperia Play.
Here is an interesting story and a possible glimpse into the future of how all the Sony Playstation announcements for Android will all come together in one nice little package. Currently only available on the newer certified Android devices from Sony like the S Tablet, the PSN app has now been tweaked to run on the Xperia Play.
Gameloft has also gotten into the Thanksgiving spirit it seems and is offering Xperia Play owners a 2-for-1 deal on their Xperia Play optimized titles. In total there are 6 titles listed for participation for this promotion including games like 9mm, Order & Chaos MMORPG, Asphalt 6 and Starfront: Collision HD.
Yongzh, the developer of a lot of popular emulators for Android including the Nintendo 64 one called N64oid, has announced that in one of the upcoming updates that it will support the ability to use the Xperia Play touchpads. However, he won’t be doing that until the Xperia Play gets it’s Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) update.
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