New in the App Catalog for 07 January 2010 45
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 7:59 am EST 
So yesterday might have been a big day at CES 2010 for Palm. We got the Palm Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus, and they’re going to be exclusive to Verizon. We got the Pre headed to SFR in France. We got Flash, a webOS App Gallery on PreCentral, video recording, and webOS 1.4. But what’s exciting, and what we get right now, is new apps. And those new apps come with 3D gaming, ala the iPhone. In fact, Palm’s new Plug-in Development Kit allows developers to make C and C++ apps that will work beautifully on webOS. As such, developers like EA, Gameloft, and Glu are here and showing off what that delicious hardware is really capable of. Curious what games are available? Well, while you’re waiting for the App Catalog to load, we recommend you hope right past the break and catch a glimpse for yourself of our daily list.
New Apps:
- Asphalt 5, $6.99, by Gameloft: Race more than 30 different cars in more than a dozen beautiful locations around the world in this 3D racing game.
- Brain Challenge, $6.99, by Gameloft: You personal brain-training coach.
- Dictionary Free, Free, by KDB Productions: Look up the words you just need to know.
- Glyder 2, $2.99, by Glu Mobile: Unlock the mysteries of a strange new environment while you soar through the open skies and swoop through tight caverns.
- Let’s Golf, $5.99, by Gameloft: Grab a club, take a swing, and pray for a birdie in this fun 3D golf simulator.
- Lucy, $4.99, by NA: Location-based reminder app, ten locations, one mile radius.
- Monopoly, $6.99, by Electronic Arts: The original beloved board game. Take a ride on Reading Railroad, buy Boardwalk, and go directly to jail (do not pass go, do not collect $200).
- My GPS, $0.99, by Spyder Speak: Get your current speed, altitude, coordinates, heading, and address.
- Need for Speed Undercover, $9.99, by Electronic Arts: Chase or be chased in this 3D racing game. Buy and upgrade cars and outrun the police.
- Scrabble, $6.99, by Electronic Arts: You know what spells fun? Well, f-u-n, but also s-c-r-a-b-b-l-e.
- Speed Limit, $0.99, by SpeedyMarks: Display your current speed and get a warning if you go over the limit.
- Sudoku by EA, $4.99, by Electronic Arts: Get every column and every box filled with every number between 1 and 9.
- Tetris, $6.99, by Electronic Arts: It’s Tetris. What more can we say?
- The Oregon Trail, $5.99, by Gameloft: My westward-bound family died of dysentery because I spend all my money on bacon.
- The Sims 3, $9.99, by Electronic Arts: The #1 PC gaming franchise of all time comes to webOS. Customize and control your Sim in interactions with a virtual world and its inhabitants.
- X-Plane 9, $9.99, by Laminar Research: The first flight simulator for webOS, X-Plane 9 brings rich graphics and flight modeling to accurate gameplay.
- Yo Dawg!, $0.99, by Keen Studios: Throw down some “gangster” lingo with hundreds of hilarious phrases.
45 Comments
Hopefully, from now on your app run-downs will always be this "delicious"!
And hopefully the apps will work.
I purchased Asphalt5 and it doesn't even start up.
Restart your phone!
Asphalt 5 works great...it does require a restart of the phone before it will start up for some reason. Very awesome game!!! now waiting for Feb. update, which will hopefully include a major battery improvement...I also want to find a higher capacity battery and stone cover for it!!!
Asphalt 5 isnt't working for me either, I downloaded it a few days ago and when I tap on the icon it just highlights it and nothing happens. I've rebooted, I've done a partial erase, and still no go. Anyone overcome this issue yet?
I gave the app catalog a workout by downloading NFSU and X-Plane as well as updates to Classic and others. The downloads and installs are ran in the background without problem and I was able to run NFSU without updating. Based on other posts, I was expecting a crash but it never happened. No patches, tho. Serviously impressed with the screen resolution and redraw rates especially right after my wife showed me a version of NFS running in Java on her Samsung Comeback. Great surprise to get X-Plane as I've used desktop version for years. Good day for Palm!!! Come a long way since Treo 270!
And hopefully some of it will apply to anybody outside the USA !
hear hear!
anyone know when this will be available in canada/world
canada still has the "free only" beta app catalog, shame on bell
maybe after feb. 1.4 update
Maybe after pigs fly. I doubt Bell sees this as any kind of priority. We don't even get OS updates for a week
does the Pixi have the 3D games too??? curious.
The Pixi does not, because it uses a different, less powerful, CPU/GPU than the Pre.
I know a few kids (my daughter included) who were excited to get a Pixi for Christmas, and the fact that they won't have the 3D games will be a huge blow to them.
I'm glad I can have them on my Pre, if I played games like this that is. Shows you how short they fell with the Pixi when they should have made it BETTER! The Pre should have been their "Business" platform, and the Pixi (since it looks and feels like a toy) should have been the "Gaming Phone"
I completely disagree. The Pre is the flagship device and if Palm had limited it to business use they would have struggled to attract users. What proportion of genuine business users do you think use the Pre? The smartphone market has moved beyond business users and is targeted all consumers.
In addition to different CPU, wouldn't the screen resolution be an issue for these types of games? They say they churned these out pretty quickly, and the fact that the Pre has the same resolution as the iPhone probably helped speed up the process.
Gylder 2 is a relaxing fun game thats still kinda challenging. Really good and same price as iphone version.
So im waiting for iFart to use the GPU to its FULL advantage. 3d farts... I still wont pay for it but i just know that they have the time because they have already wasted so much time on their original apps.
Europe and Canada are getting paid apps on the next update I believe...sometime around the end of January / early Feb.
Really?? I really hope so. Where did you hear this?
I bought the NEED FOR SPEED and it dosent start up for me also.. I think it has something to do with preware because SUPER TUX, TETRICRISIS & CLASSIC INVADERS stopped working earlier yesterday.. I just hope i don't have to wipe my phone again..also i had installed mytether too yesterday... I hope that's not the culprit too...oh and i restarted many of times too
I'm afraid it's myTether, that thing's notorious for breaking stuff because the developer refuses to participate in the open-source community and opts to do things his own way, breaking everything in the process. I suggest you remove it and clear out your .mytether folder (take a look in the forums for help). If that doesn't work, you might want to try the WebOS repair utility, and failing that, WebOS doctor.
For the record, I have mytether on my Pre and Need For Speed Underground works perfect. The very first time I tried to run after installation, I got too many cards open error even though I had no cards open, but rebooted once and since then, starts everytime, even after heavy multitasking!
I know it's anecdotal, but mytether has borked (had to doctor it) my phone's networking twice. Screwed up the route table once, and something I can't figure out a second time. I've stopped using it because:
Quality issues
Lack of participation in homebrew community
I honestly wouldn't mind paying for the thing, but the above two issues have driven me away big time.
Hey all, if your new games won't start up, it is indeed MyTether. The fix is here: http://forums.precentral.net/2137251-post18.html
Hope it helps!
no link to file download..and i posted a thread some time ago on why no1 else has did a tether program.. and from what my man said above..here is another reason why someone else should do a tether program..Thanks to both replies.
ok.. i got it.. u have to uninstall the patch when u turn off mytether and reinstall the patch when u wanna use mytether again.. and all 3d games work
does this mean we have opengl? Or the cpu still doing all the work?
The interesting thing is that if they work on webOS, that means they've all been ported to Linux. I wonder when it will start being available for retail sale?
HEY DEREK, WHO IS THE COOLER GEEK, YOU OR DIETER?
@loftwyr: I've been thinking about that ('native' WebOS games are just SDL games) a lot. Because these games are being built with SDL (for Linux) it should be a breeze to make them work on *any* Linux platform. Even without the same hardware components it should make porting these apps to any given Linux-based PC or device very straightforward/quick.
By allowing developers to write apps for WebOS using SDL they've given an enormous gift to the Linux community. Not only will this encourage more games to be developed using SDL it will also likely mean more involvement and improvements to SDL itself. The more developers there are using SDL the more likely they are to submit patches, bug reports, and generally improve the quality of SDL overall.
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X-Plane 9 is on my list of what I would buy, if Palm would let me.
$10 for NFS? That's how much it cost for Xbox 360 now come on Palm. $5 seems fair but $10 is ridiculous given the cost of HD platform games.
I guess I should take the time to remind you that PALM DOES NOT CONTROL THE PRICES OF GAMES OR APPLICATIONS.
Ok, I know some people don't like the prices, but I have downloaded most of the new games and started playing them (after a reset). After the reset, I have been able too switch games without the too many cards error. Not sure if it will pop up more. I did use up 1 gig of memory on all the new games. Who cares, I love the games.
Yesterday, I was hit with that wow that I felt in June when I bought the Pre. I am so happy I am a Pre owner. Palm keep kicking a$$. I know we complain that its going slow but the fact is that huge leaps happen, and the device has only been out 7 or so months.
Now, to make me happy, after flash, I need to be able to edit word, text and spreadsheets. After that, I will be 110% happy.
Thank you PALM, I am a PALM-fanatic. My PSP-GO is going to sit in dust because its one less thing I have to carry now that I have some games on my Pre.
This app update is bad news.
I've spent $23 on apps so far today and I fear I'm just getting started :)
Bravo to Palm and to all the great App developers!
(Now if we could only get a VNC client and an AudiblePlayer...)
I don't use it too often, but I have PalmVNC (old, but free) running in Classic. If you have Classic consider it a solution until something better comes along.
My 6 year old saw me playing Need for Speed and put down his Nintendo DSi, took the game from me, and started shouting out "cool...oh man.......wow!". He has a Wii too so the tilting controls were like second nature to him -- he just did it instinctively. All I could think was, oh man, what did I start.
I know it's been said like a 100 times, but you should reboot after installing any of these 3D games. Actually, NFS rebooted the phone all by itself right after I installed it. That was probably not by design but it had the side effect of letting me play it without any hiccups afterwards.
I've installed the new Tetris (really hope they patch in keyboard controls) and NFS and both games ran fine without restarting. The only time I get the "Too many cards..." error is if I try to play one game right after another. If I wait 5-10 sec. between trying to load a new game then it will run fine.
I really hope these big developers start taking advantage of the Pre's keyboard, it's a huge advantage for games of this type, would be a huge shame to waste it.
Anyone else having problems running Asphalt... I was able to play it for a while and now when i get to the track preview screen it wont play. It just cuts out and closes the card... without an error notice.
Update: it seems that this only happens on one certain level. the Saint one.
Update #2: Also Aspen wont play the 4th race
Anyone else notice that the "too many cards" error notice seems to have changed? I wish I took a screenshot, but it looks now like it is small, gentler and refers more to lack of available memory than too many cards.
I still can't believe the pixi can't run 3d games.
asphalt 5 doesn't work once i tried to play the motorcycle that was it. it crashes every time i try to start a race now reset the phone even web doctor factory settings still crashes something is very wrong here they need to fix this soon im getting real mad no response yet from gameloft or palm