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[Pre] Epic Games Porting Unreal Engine to WebOS

Jon Zilber of Palm today announced in their blog that besides Electronic Arts also Epic Games support the webOS platform. Epic Games is in the middle of porting their Unreal Engine 3 onto Palm’s webOS. Epic’s Unreal Engine is well known from games like Unreal Tournament.

Epic is going to offer licenses for developers to create new and astonishing games for the Palm webOS platform.

Together with Palm’s Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) it will soon become very easy for developers to port visually appealing games to the webOS platform.

» Palm: Palm webOS games get Unreal
» Palm: Plug-in Development Kit

» Epic: Free Download Unreal Engine 3

[Update] Engadget got a vid:

[Pre] Palm’s PDK Makes Porting iPhone Games Easy

John Paczkowski of AllThingsDigital mentioned that sources close to Palm told him, Palm’s Plugin-Development Kit will allow easy porting of Apple iPhone games to WebOS. That could also explain how fast Electronic Arts ported “Need for Speed” to WebOS.

» PreCentral.net: Palm to demo porting iPhone games to webOS ‘in a matter of days’ at GDC
» AllThingsD.com: Palm’s PDK to Allow Easy Porting of iPhone Apps