Today’s a good day for BlackBerry PlayBook owners hungry for high-quality apps. EA has launched Dead Space, a popular sci-fi/horror first person shooter video game, for RIM’s tablet. The console and PC game previously made its way to the iOS, but Android support is on the way soon too. Sony Ericsson has announced that they’ll be hosting the game on their Xperia Play handset (better known as the PlayStation phone) along with a few other titles, like FIFA and Need for Speed.
EA helped out a bunch with the PlayBook’s launch by preloading the Need for Speed racing game; it showed that RIM’s first tablet had a ton of horsepower in it, and with the right tools, it could do some pretty high-end stuff. Of course, they’ve been able to use the native development kit, which is still in an early-stage closed beta for the time being. It’s great to see real big-boy apps being made by AAA publishers on QNX, not only for the PlayBook’s sake, but for the sake of future RIM smartphones that will be running the OS.
You can check out our full review of Dead Space for the iPad over here if you want to get a feel for the quality of the PlayBook version. If you’re ready to make the leap, the game over here is lurking in the cold, blood-stained corridors of App World over here.