On January 7, 2010, Palm introduced several graphics-intensive game titles for webOS from game developers EA Mobile, Gameloft, Glu Mobile; and Laminar Research. Seven 3D games were introduced today in the Palm App Catalog for Palm Pre customers: Need for Speed Undercover, Sims 3, Monopoly, Asphalt 5: Elite Racing, Let's Golf, Glyder 2, and X-Plane. Five other mobile games were also introduced: Tetris, Sudoku, Scrabble, Oregon Trail, and Brain Challenge.
The developers introducing titles today have had early access to the Palm webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK), which extends the Palm webOS Software Development Kit (SDK) with a set of tools, documentation and APIs that let developers write plug-ins for their webOS applications. The PDK lets developers integrate C and C++ code into their webOS applications, enabling new functionality, including immersive 3D games.
The Palm App Catalog currently offers more than a thousand webOS applications for download. Palm's over-the-air model also makes it easy for customers to get webOS updates and new features delivered directly to their phones. For example, video recording, editing and sharing capabilities will soon be available for users of webOS phones. This new video capability will be delivered automatically to current and future Palm Pre and Palm Pixi products via an over-the-air update.
Palm also demonstrated Flash content in the browser on a Palm Pre and expects a free Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in to be posted to the Palm App Catalog in the coming months. Palm expects webOS to be one of the first mobile platforms to support the full Flash Player in the web browser.