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Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY Just $0.01 at Amazon

By Chris Burns
on 10 Jun, 2011

This price is just about as good as it gets, folks, with a two-year contract attached, a device with the power to entertain and drive anti-productivity (or productivity if you hate awesome video games) all day long. This is the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY aka the PlayStation phone aka the original Android 2.3 Gingerbread hero phone, and you can have it basically for free! Go Amazon go!

Desert Winds Game Coming to the Xperia Play

By Cory Gunther
on 7 Jun, 2011

Desert Winds is coming to the Xperia Play soon and we have been told it is one of the most visually stunning games to come to mobile. It is based around the beautiful princess Amira that must fight for her peoples survival and freedom. This game has been developed closely with Qualcomm to deliver the best possible experience on their Snapdragon CPU and Adreno graphics and they promise a pretty stellar game. Don't worry we will be reviewing it soon.

Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Play Dock with 3 Bonus Games

By John Scheible
on 7 Jun, 2011

We already knew Sony Ericsson was going to be promoting the Xperia Play over at E3 this week, and today they've announced a new accessory for it. The Xperia Play Experience Pack, as they call it, comes with a standard dock to use as a charging station or to turn your Xperia Play into a desk clock as well as an audio cable and USB cable. The extra bonus is three free games from Gameloft to download for your shiny Playstation phone.

Age of Zombies for Android Review [Optimized for Xperia PLAY]

By Chris Burns
on 3 Jun, 2011

Woo! Kill em all! That's what you're going to NEED to be doing when you play this fabulous game called Age of Zombies. This game is new to Android, having come out first only on Xperia PLAY (which is what we're looking at in the review) and just TODAY coming out for the greater bulk of the Android family using on-screen controls instead of the Xperia PLAY's Playstation controllers. What you're doing here is surviving, but better than that, you're stopping a zombie invasion from taking over and eating the entirety of the Earth after they've found their way into a time portal. What in the world? Let's start em all on fire!

Star Battalion for Xperia PLAY Review

By Chris Burns
on 1 Jun, 2011

This is a game that, if you're a fan of either of the following games or series, you're going to love the heck out of: StarFox 64 and Rogue Squadron for Gamecube. I know there's games very similar to those two, but those are massively iconic and without a doubt they flew through your humble narrator's mind the entire time he was playing the game we're talking about right here right now. This is Star Battalion and it's available now exclusively for Xperia PLAY - let's play it!

Sony Ericsson Teases Bouncy Device?

By Chris Burns
on 31 May, 2011

No, not really. What you're seeing is an image that was passed to us by a friendly tipster by the name of Bouncy (well named!) and shows off a bouncing Sony Ericsson ball hitting the ground between some white lines drawn on the ground surrounding it. What this sort of thing generally means is that we're going to see a new device on the horizon. What this particular image ACTUALLY means is something much less sinister and a whole lot more 2012.

Android Community 101: Where do I find Xperia PLAY games?

By Chris Burns
on 30 May, 2011

So you've purchased your first Xperia PLAY, your first ever gamer phone, a PlayStation phone like you've never seen before. It's fabulous, the games are great, and you're having the time of your life. But wait, is this it? Aren't there any more apps to be downloaded? All I see are regular games in the Android Market, aren't there any more games that are optimized for this PlayStation controller? I can't believe I can't just click around and figure it out - Ah ha! I'll go to Android Community, they'll know!

Battle Bears -1 for Xperia PLAY Review

By Chris Burns
on 30 May, 2011

Behold the next chapter in our review series of the games currently exclusive to (or otherwise optimized for) the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY, aka the PlayStation phone. What this game "Battle Bears -1" consists of is you controlling an upright-standing cartoon 3D bear from a 3rd person over-the-shoulder perspective as he collects weapons and cuts down, blasts, or otherwise destroys the rest of the characters in the game. You'll be using all your fingers for this one.