If OpenFeint's lightweight social connections and leaderboards lack the competitive edge your inner hardcore gamer craves, maybe Major League Gaming's latest mouthful will satiate your demands for satisfaction. The Xperia Mobile Gaming Arena presented by Sony Mobile (we told you it was a mouthful) hopes to offer smartphone toting gamers a major cross-platform battleground, offering iOS and Android users competitive leaderboards and as much as $10,000 in prizes. Currently the smartphone gaming platform only supports Gameloft's Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation, but MLG hopes to enlist more competitive titles within the coming months. "The MLG community thrives on competition," explains Major League Gaming CEO Sundance DiGiovanni, "with our new mobile platform, we're now enabling gamers to have interaction in competitive play regardless of where they're." Able to climb that leaderboard? Get your game on on the source link below, or read on for MLG's official press release.
Major League Gaming, Sony Mobile Communications and Gameloft
Bring Competitive Gaming to Smartphones with First-ever Xperia™
Mobile Gaming Arena
Competition Launches with Gameloft's Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation
NY – May 3, 2012 -- Major League Gaming (MLG), the world's largest competitive game league, Sony Mobile Communications and Gameloft, today unveiled MLG's first-ever competitive smartphone gaming platform - Xperia™ Mobile Gaming Arena Presented by Sony Mobile. Launching with Gameloft's first person shooter Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation, the sector enables gamers to compete via all mobile platforms including Android and iOS for greater than $10,000 in prizes. All competition details, scores and rankings are accessible via www.majorleaguegaming.com/mobile.
To Gaming Arena title and their ranking is automatically tallied at the Xperia™ Mobile Gaming Arena leaderboard. The Xperia™ Mobile Gaming Arena launches with Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation from Gameloft, which was enhanced for an immersive gaming experience on Xperia™ PLAY, the world's first PlayStation® Certified smartphone and the official mobile handset of Major League Gaming.
Additional competitive titles would be rolled out within the coming months.
"The MLG community thrives on competition and with our new mobile platform, we're now enabling gamers to have interaction in competitive play regardless of where they're," said Sundance DiGiovanni, CEO, MLG. "With partners like Sony Mobile and Gameloft, we're truly taking mobile gaming to a brand new level."
"From the launch of Xperia™ PLAY, the 1st smartphone to bring console-like gaming to smartphone, to now the Xperia™ Mobile Gaming Arena, the primary-of-its-kind competitive platform for mobile gamers, we're committed to bringing the simplest mobile entertainment experiences to our customers," said Peter Farmer, Head of promoting for North America, Sony Mobile Communications. "Bringing together MLG's authority in competitive gaming, Gameloft's blockbuster game titles and Sony Mobile's immersive mobile entertainment experience, the Xperia™ Mobile Gaming Arena is bound to deliver a brand new level of mobile gaming for competitors."
"For Gameloft, partnering with strong brands consisting of the MLG and Sony Mobile Communications to advertise a brand new age of competitive mobile gaming is an awfully exciting time, " said Baudouin Corman, vp of publishing within the Americas at Gameloft. "Given the millions of gamers that experience participated multiplayer experience with the Xperia Mobile Gaming Arena."
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