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We have exciting news for all Xperia™ PLAY users and fans directly from Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, where Sony Ericsson is now showing some of the best selection of the growing ecosystem of more than 150 game titles optimized for PLAY.

Here are some of the news:

• Although not news from Gamescom: Minecraft, from Mojang, is now available for Xperia™ PLAY on Android Market since August 15. You might remember Minecraft  from E3 where we met Carl and Notch from Mojang, and I can say a lot of people, including myself, were expecting this game!
•  Also, we announced that FIFA 2012, from EA, will be available optimized for Xperia™ PLAY. Also from EA we will see Need fom Speed Hot Pursuit, and Dead Space.
• New games from Sony Ericsson’s new developer program “Stand Out” are also starting to be available for Xperia™ PLAY. You can know more about the Stand Out (including really good videos of Lame Castle by Be-Rad Entertainmentand Hyperlight by Catfishblues Games) in the Developer World Blog.

Some of the Xperia™ PLAY Android titles announced on our press release and showcased this week:

•  Reckless Getaway, Reckless Racing 2 and Tanks by Polarbit
• Let’s Golf 3 by Gameloft
• Townsmen 6, Guns & Glory WW2 and Clouds and Sheep by HandyGame
• They Need To Be Fed by YoYo Games
• Lame Castle by Be-Rad Entertainment
• Hyperlight by Catfishblues Games
• Diversion and Crazy Snowboard by Ezone PTY LTD
• Gibs & Gore Micronytes
• Protoxide and Battle Boats 3D by Herocraft
• EVAC HD and Radient HD by Hexage
• PewPew 2 by Jean-Francois Geyelin
• Stellar Escape by Orange Agenda
• Jumpy, INC and Meganoid by Orange Pixel
• Death Worm by PlayCreek LLC
• No Gravity by Real Tech VR
• Crusade of Destiny by Divide Arts
• Desert Winds by Southend Interactive

You can find the complete press release here.

Gamescom will be taking place from August 17 to 21, so we will have more information and posts around what is happening there!

 Don’t forget to follow @XperiaGames on Twitter for more information of what is happening in Gamescom!

Second day of Gamescom in Cologne, Germany! I want to share this great picture that the guys over there sent us of the Sony Ericsson booth after the Minecraft session we had there.  It was a big success!! 

I hope someone brings me a Steve head from Gamescom!

In May we announced Facebook® inside Xperia™  which lets you interact with Facebook in a lot of ways from different parts of your phone without launching the app. My favourite features of Facebook® inside Xperia™ are Facebook images in my phones photo Gallery and the truly great media widget which collects the music and video content posted by my friends on Facebook on one of my home screens until I have time to check it out.

At Gamescom in Cologne we yesterday announced a new feature of Facebook® inside Xperia™ for Xperia™ PLAY.  Soon you will be able to recommend your favourite games instantly on Facebook from your Xperia™ PLAY. I’m especially looking forward to the possibility of sharing my Minecraft masterpieces and top scores from other games by uploading screenshots to Facebook.

Today we are announcing a new Walkman phone called Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman™. With lots of ways of discovering and sharing music recommendations through social media it is a good choice for all music lovers. It will launch on the latest Android version for smartphones, Gingerbread 2.3.

Here are some of the features that turn Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman™ into a  real social music machine:

• Deep Facebook™ integration: Allows users to instantly access Facebook through the most used areas of the phone such as the picture gallery, music player, phonebook and calendar.
• Media Discovery Application: A dynamic application placing the world of music and videos at consumer’s fingertips including Facebook™ recommendations from their friends.
•  Infinite button: Tapping it within the media player enables consumers to have instant access to new content about their favourite artist, such as music videos, artist information and lyrics search.
• Qriocity music and video content services from Sony: Consumers can access millions of songs from all major labels and watch thousands of movies from all major studios. Only Sony Ericsson Android smartphones provide consumers with unique access to the  entertainment services from *Sony.
• *Sony’s xLOUD™ technology: Enhances audio output of the inbuilt speakers at high levels.
• TrackID™: Identifies the music track you are listening to within the FM radio and music player. The track can then instantly be shared or downloaded.

If you want to take a look at the full press release you’ll find it in our press room.

Hello! My name is Martina Johansson and I’m one of the new bloggers here at the Product Blog together with Cristina Porter. I’ve been sitting next to Rikard Skogberg for the past few years and have followed his work with the blog ever since it was started as the Satio Launch Blog. I’m very excited to cover for him while he is on paternity leave and I’ll do my best to keep you well informed about our products and services.

Hello everyone! I’m Cristina Porter, and with Martina, will be writing on the Product Blog while Rikard is out. Short info about me, I’ve been in Sony Ericsson for some time now, I’m a big fan of gadgets, my phone right now is an Xperia™ arc (and a PLAY, too ),  and  I am really happy to be here. The Product Blog has always been an important part of what I do in Sony Ericsson, and now that I can be a part of this, I’m really thrilled! I look forward to post about new products, services, launches and listening to your comments!

Martina: I have read through the majority of the past weeks comments on the blog and, needless to say, most of them are about the recent Gingerbread update for Xperia™ X10. I’m glad to see that so many of you are happy with the update! It’s also fantastic to see that, while we’ve been a bit understaffed here at the blog, different forums have done a fantastic job listing the different kits being upgraded. If you still wonder if the upgrade is available for your kit I can recommend you to have a look at for instance xda-developers. As communicated in Rikard’ s original blog post back in March, the update will first and foremost be made available to generic trade kits. Even if there will be some operator kits getting this upgrade, some of you will not be able to upgrade your customized version of Xperia^TM X10.  

There are also some questions regarding the possibilities of Backup and Restore. Again, as Rikard said in the original post, the Sony Ericsson Backup and Restore client is not supported in the Gingerbread version and will therefore be lost. It could be a good idea to download a third party solution from Android Market to do a back up before you update your phone.

Now that we are two new bloggers giving you the latest news there will probably be a few changes and we would like to take the opportunity to get your input. Why don’t you tell us what kind of Sony Ericsson news you would like to read more about here on the product blog?

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