Mobile Minecraft to Hit Sony Xperia Play First

If you couldn't have in mind a grounds to possess an Xperia Play, now you have one: Minecraft for Android International Relations and Security Network't just in the offing, it's occurrence to Sony's "PlayStation Phone" exclusively.

Timed exclusivity, that is, meaning information technology'll eventually go live as matter-of-course on new mobiles, including the iPhone, but make one Sony—Minecraft's one of the best puzzle ideas to happen to the Personal computer in ages, even if its Maker's on occasion given to romantic musings.

You've heard of Minecraft, right? The craft-anything Java game for PCs where the world's wrought from giant Atari 2600-style 3D cubes? Where you're either building for the interest of construction or to defend against wolves, "spider jockeys," and ghoulish ghasts that come looking for to pulverize your handiwork at night? Where you can scramble Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, or slyness an honest-to-good working 16-snatch CPU? If you haven't, get thee to the official website and give it more just an "Buckeye State geez, it's all blocky-n-stuff" gander. Jester with it for a bit (the unconfined version, I beggarly). It doesn't disappoint.

For those in the know, look for special Xperia Play controls that take advantage of the phone's PlayStation-the likes of buttons and touchpad-style hitch inputs. Minecraft developer Mojang's besides working to adapt the game to work on little screens and appealingness to the mobile sociology, which it recognizes has "different attention spans."

No word on a high-def iPad version, but you nearly have to assume that's in the cards, too. Also no word on when we'll see information technology (for any of the rangy versions), only judging from that crack up top, we'll lay over work force on it at E3 in a few weeks, and perchance hear about release dates, also.

(via Gamasutra)

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