The Xperia Play hasn’t exactly flown off the shelves since its launch, part of the reason for that being the rather lacklustre nature of the games available for the smartphone with a slide-out gamepad.
However, Sony Ericsson is hoping that over twenty new games will increase the allure of the gaming handset, the biggest of which will be a mobile exclusive on Minecraft, the free-form construction game and indie PC hit.
We can’t imagine that the Android exclusive on Minecraft will be a lengthy one, but who knows. It’ll certainly annoy a lot of Android gamers if it is.
Other new games which will be coming out exclusively on the Xperia Play include Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Shadow Vanguard. A new batch of PS1 classics is also promised, no names have been named yet, but hopefully these will be juicer than the existing library.
Massively multiplayer online games are also coming to the handset courtesy of Spacetime Studios with Pocket Legends and sci-fi MMOG Star Legends.
Tempted at all? At least the sim-free Xperia Play is now a bit cheaper than it was at launch, generally priced at around the £450 mark (Orange has it on PAYG for £430 for the exclusive white version).