Sony will launch the Playstation Mobile October 3rd

According to Pocket Gamer, Sony will be launching their highly anticipated PlayStation Mobile service. 30 Games will be available at launch from various studios. Of course this will be only available to PlayStation Certified devices like the Xperia Ion and HTC One X but this is still fantastic news for game development on Android. Luckly, according to the report Canada will be one of the launch countries so October 3rd Canadians will get to see what Sony's PlayStation Mobile SDK brings to developers.

Playstation Mobile gains two more OEMs in ASUS and Wikipad

After HTC broke the ice as Sony's first third party partner for their PlayStation Mobile platform, we expected more OEMs to join the fray. Sony annouced today at Gamescom 2012 that ASUS and Wikipad will be joining in as Third Party OEMs as well. ASUS is well known in the Android world for their Transformer line of tablets as well as being the OEM partner to Google for the Nexus 7. Wikipad on the other hand is a company behind a tablet also called Wikipad that will be aimed at the consumer gaming market with hardware chosen for gaming and actual gamepad controls.

Sony renames PlayStation Suite to PlayStation Mobile and names HTC as their first third party partner

If you recall a few months ago, word got out that HTC would be Sony's first third party partner would be HTC and it seems like against even our better judgement the rumor has come to fruition. Sony has just announced at E3 that Playstation Suite is being rebranded as Playstation Mobile and that their first third party partner will in fact be HTC. This is extremely interesting for HTC as they have yet another distinct differentiator for their phones without counting their majority stake in Beats. While this is fantastic news for HTC, we must wonder what this means for Sony's line of Android phones.