Developer SilverTree Media, who brought us the cute and addictive game Cordy, have announced that they are bringing their new, anticipated title to the Xperia Play first and it will be a Play exclusive for one month prior to release on other handsets.

Entitled “Sleepy Jack”, the new game is an arcade styled platform title where players control the sleepy Jack throughout his psychedelic dreams with collecting, shooting and flying elements included alongside beautiful graphics. The game was seen at Gamescom in it’s beta form and the Sleepy Jack trailer video can be viewed below:

Great news for US buyers – the Xperia Ray is officially available to buy in your country in it’s unlocked form, Sony Ericsson have announced.

The Xperia Ray is listed at online retail sites including newegg.com and is for sale at $424.99 with no carrier tie in.We did wonder if the handset would be tied in with an AT&T release due to specifications released when the handset appeared on the FCC website however, this isn’t the case and the Xperia Ray is fully unlocked and ready to go.

Gameloft have another of their promotions on. This time around, they are offering Global Front HD for the next two and a bit hours. The promotion ends at 10PM GMT. This offer is not limited to the Xperia Play and works on other Android powered devices, like the Xperia Arc and Xperia Neo.

Gameloft have also reduced the price of all other HD games to 99p, instead of £3.

We’ve provided information on how to root the Xperia handsets here before and in the past rooting has always been for a positive reason. The main reason for rooting is that it allows you to remove preinstalled apps, either installed by Sony Ericsson such as Timescape, or network specific apps such as Vodafone’s 360 application. There are of course other positive reasons to root your handset and with Google Android being a pretty open OS, rooting hasn’t been much of a problem. That may change soon however.

It appears that the Android Market has been updated on Xperia handsets which adds a link to Sony Ericsson apps. The update doesn’t actually appear to be a market update however, as there wasn’t a notification and uninstalling any Market updates, does not revert the Market to how it was.