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PDK webOS games ported over to Maemo

Something that’s been brewing for a while in the Maemo community, is the potential of porting over webOS PDK apps made for the Pre, to the Nokia N900. Now these two devices share pretty much exactly the same core internal specs; …

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Review: MiniSquadron

I’ve never really liked airplane games. It seems like most games that are related to airplanes are either simulators or just overly serious in nature. This isn’t to say that the current offerings in the Palm App Catalog aren’t …

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App Of The Day: SuperTux

As you all know, we here at webOSroundup are huge fans/supporters of our homebrew community. Nothing gives us more pleasure than seeing our favorite homebrew applications graduate to the official Palm App Catalog. This time our very own WebOS Internals …

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Review: Everlands

With the recent release of 1.4.5 (to all carriers!), we get to enjoy the wonderful world of PDK apps. Some developers, like Hexage, have taken advantage of the PDK and ported all their apps into the Palm App Catalog. …

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App Of The Day: Glow Hockey FREE

I love the fine sport of air hockey, and I have been waiting with anticipation for a PDK air hockey game to appear in the catalog. Imagine the smile on my face when I saw Glow Hockey FREE by …

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Review: Sparkle

One of my favorite PC games is Luxor, a color matching, shoot’em up, strategy game that is also known as ‘marble poppers’. With the latest webOS update allowing us to run PDK apps we now have beautiful, high powered …

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Rovio’s Angry Birds has hit the Palm App Catalog (UPDATE: Palm sits down with the dev!)

iOS and now webOS developer Rovio’s app Angry Birds has hit the Palm App Catalog. This game is highly anticipated by the webOS community as evidenced by the overwhelming “YES” it gave to Rovio’s question this past month, “would you be interested …

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VisualBoyAdvance graduates to the App Catalog

Let’s say you’re a tough-talking, right-walking homebrew webOS app. You’ve got tons of street-cred and everyone respects you, but that’s just not enough any more. You need more than street-cred. You want to feel legit! What’s there left to …

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Rovio’s Angry Birds is coming to webOS very soon (UPDATE: Now with video!)

This past month Finnish developer Rovio asked the webOS community if they would be interested in a version of their hit iOS game Angry Birds. The webOS community responded with an overwhelming ‘yes’ through Twitter and through Rovio’s own …

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PDK App Leaderboard is now up!

Dion Almaer just let the twitterverse know that Palm has just released a new version of the Hot Apps Leaderboard for the PDK competition over at PalmHotApps.com.

The competition has been going on for a little while now, but I …

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Review: Ancient Frog

3D gaming is skyrocketing on webOS and we’ve seen them in all different flavors:  racing, adventure, platformers and so forth.  One genre that hasn’t seen a lot of titles is puzzle games.  Even the most trivial puzzle game can …

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Cronk Review

If you’re new to webOS (or as my wife calls herself: “tech-stupid”), then you probably have no idea what Palm’s Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) is all about.  Well, you kinda should.

Basically, the …

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