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Onlive For Android Adds Xperia Play Support – Lets You Game On Your Phone Like A Big Boy

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Waking up to my phone today, I noticed there were a gang of apps in the Market with fresh updates ready to be installed. Checking my email, I noticed an actual press release from just such an app update, this time from cloud gaming service Onlive, who wants Android gamers everywhere to know that their app is now officially “Xperia Play optimized.” This means if you’re an Xperia Play owner, you can take full advantage of that slide out control pad to play all your console favorites and send us, snobby dual-core owners home, green with envy.

The only strange part I noticed was the app actually didn’t need updating in the Market. Not sure if this new functionality was unlocked on their end or if my Market will alert me a little later today. Either way, you can download Onlive free from the Android Market and check out the full press release below.

Palo Alto, CA – December 22, 2011 – OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of cloud gaming, today announced that its free OnLive app for Android has been updated to support the slide-out game controls on the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ PLAY smartphone*, enabling gameplay of almost all OnLive games, including the latest AAA console-class titles. The Xperia PLAY combines Android smartphone touchscreen control with what every console gamers dreams of: slide-out dedicated gaming keys, analog touch joysticks and shoulder buttons. The just-updated free OnLive Android App delivers the missing piece: AAA high-performance console-class games playable directly with the slide-out controls, streamed over the Internet for instant on-demand play.

“From the moment we launched our OnLive Android app, gamers began asking about Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY game control support,” said Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder and CEO. “We listened and delivered. Now Xperia PLAY gamers in the US and UK can play almost all of OnLive’s 200 premium titles—including hit AAA games like Saints Row: The Third and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations—on their Xperia PLAY smartphone with a full console-class experience, including multiplayer and social features.”

Released to the Android Market on December 8, the free OnLive app is the first cloud gaming app to enable users to play high-performance, console-quality games—previously playable only on the highest-end computers and gaming systems—on devices as simple as smartphones and tablets. Unlike downloaded games, OnLive games are streamed over the internet just like streaming music and video, never taking up storage. And OnLive games are cross-platform—meaning you can start play on your PC or Mac®, then pick up your game on your smartphone and finish on a friend’s TV via the OnLive Game System with all your save game data intact. Or, play multiplayer with friends on entirely different devices. Now, with Xperia PLAY, gamers will be able to extend OnLive’s high-performance game touch experience with the greater control, better accuracy and the physical feeling of a game console controller, all in a single compact smartphone. Customers can find the OnLive app in the Android Market by following this link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.onlive.client.

Tablet and smartphone owners who don’t own an Xperia PLAY can choose two other ways to play on an Android tablet or smartphone. They can jump instantly into free demos of 24 touch-playable games, such as Dirt 3 and Defense Grid Gold, which have been either redesigned with native touch controls or include various virtual gamepads on-screen. Or, they can play nearly every game in OnLive’s growing library using the recently released and highly-acclaimed Universal OnLive Wireless Controller, designed to optimize wireless play across tablets, smartphones, PCs, Macs, TVs and Blu-ray players.

For more information on the OnLive app and the Universal OnLive Wireless Controller, visit www.onlive.com or www.onlive.co.uk.

[Onlive Market Link]

Chris Chavez
I've been obsessed with consumer technology for about as long as I can remember, be it video games, photography, or mobile devices. If you can plug it in, I have to own it. Preparing for the day when Android finally becomes self-aware and I get to welcome our new robot overlords.

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11 Comments

  1. now if they would update the ios app…

    1. I think you missed the part where it said “Big Boy”.

      1. ?  I actually have this downloaded on my galaxy, I need it on my ipad 2 now :)

  2. You need to grab a thrid party app to enable the PLAY controls in Onlive Chris I would have to head over to the onlive site to find out exactly which third party app

    1. I didn’t see that anywhere in the press release.. O_o

        1. that is now no longer needed.
          the announcement was for native support in the onlive client.
          the client in the market is now updated with this feature.

          1. Ok wasnt aware of that as the last i herd was that you needed the onlive helper app

  3. Works without third party app tried this morning works great :)

  4. Does anyone know if you can use the controller for other games likes Shadowrun or Emulators????

  5. Dang it! I want my Xperia Play back! lol

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