We’ve heard about it for so long, and then we’re previewed by Sony about its awesomeness and the Gingerbread and the new PlayStation feature, and we even see its Havok-engine support. Now, the peeps at UK rejoice and mark your calendar for March 31st. That’s the end of the month and falls in nicely with the “late March” word we’d heard for elsewhere in the world, though that is awfully late. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will hit UK on the last day of March. That is, if you can’t wait for the Sony PlayStation NGP with its awesome quad-core nuclear reactor power.

It’s said that “all the mobile operators and retailers” will have it, so you shouldn’t have to wander too far. And, with six games pre-installed, you should even be reasonably well equipped to kill the rest of that Thursday.