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The official Palm blog proudly listed a batch of hit games for its numerous Palm OS mobile phones. The announcement is mildly amusing considering that nobody cares about Palm OS and anyone interested in the company is hot for the Palm Pre.

As many of you know, Brian and Raymond were pretty impressed with the Pre after its unveiling at CES 2009. It might even be as rad as an iPhone, without the annoying "Lookit me! I'm cool because I'm an Apple person!" vibe. The Pre has a touch screen, a slideout keyboard, and WiFi support, as well as running WebOS and making phone calls... which is all well and good, but can it play games?

The answer to that would be "not very well". Despite the Pre's impressive innards, applications for the device are made with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll be able to experience web-quality games, but not the 3D titles you'll see on the Apple iPhone or T-Mobile G1.

It's just funny that Palm is tooting its own horn for yesterday's games as it prepares for a dull future in gaming with the Pre.

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  • PlayScreen

    PlayScreen has launched a portal with OVER 25 Free games for the new Palm Pre Phone. The company that launched some of the most popular iPhone web-based games has announced the release of more than 25 games for the new Palm Pre™ Phone. Titles include casual, action, puzzle and social games. Just go to http://playscreen.com on your Palm Pre.

    Posted: June 6, 2009 12:43 PM | Reply | Report
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  • xoise

    Of course don't forget about web-based games. There's already tons available at this site:

    [url=http://www.playpregames .com/]Palm Pre Games[/url]

    Posted: June 29, 2009 9:00 PM | Reply | Report
    xoise
  • smirking revenge

    this guy who wrote this is a moron. theres games now for the pre that look almost like ps2. you shouldnt write an article if you dont know what your talking about. thanks.

    Posted: January 9, 2010 9:51 AM | Reply | Report
    smirking+revenge

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