Palm turns Pre into monster gaming machine

The buzz was right: Palm has created a real 3D monster gaming rig in the Palm Pre. At CES today, Palm showed off several big titles coming to the Pre in stunning 3D glory. Palm again touted how easy webOS has made getting big apps easily onto webOS in just a few days.

Palm announced these titles:

• Need for Speed(TM) Undercover” (EA Mobile)
• The Sims(TM) 3″ (EA Mobile)
• “MONOPOLY(TM)” (EA Mobile)
• Asphalt 5: Elite Racing” (Gameloft)
• Let’s Golf!” (Gameloft)
• Glyder 2″ (Glu Mobile)
• X-Plane” (Laminar Research

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“Recent improvements to Palm webOS represent major advancements in enabling world-class mobile gaming,” said Travis Boatman, vice president of Worldwide Studios for EA Mobile. “These innovations have allowed us to quickly bring our best IP to the platform.”

The games announced today had early access to the Palm webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK), which broadens the Palm webOS Software Development Kit (SDK) with a set of tools, documentation and APIs that allow developers to write plug-ins for their webOS applications.

Company site: [Palm]