Palm has pledged that Unreal Engine 3, the beast which powers such popular video games as Gears of War, Army of Two, Batman: Arkham Asylum, BioShock, Mass Effect, Rainbox Six: Vegas and more, will work with Palm’s recently-announced plug-in development kit. This will allow for easy ports of established games, as well as a rich toolbox for game developers to use create new mobile game properties.
Epic Games’ interest in mobile has already been established with a few tech demos of the Unreal Engine running on the iPhone 3GS, but until now, we haven’t seen a lot of love for the other mobile platforms. The only big name 3D gaming BlackBerry has managed to attract is EA, and even then, there aren’t any additional developer tools to ease production. Android has just recently released a native development kit, which will enable 3D gaming development similar to Palm’s PDK, but given Android’s advanced progress in the device market overall, it may be hard for webOS to keep developers interested.
In any case, you can download Palm’s PDK here, and check out the Unreal Development Kit here – interoperability in between the two should be available “soon”.
[via Palm Blog]