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The strategic value of gamers isn’t lost on Palm, which is struggling to establish itself in the smartphone market.

Games are the most popular applications on both the iPhone and Google Android phones, and so now Palm is making its own push to get more games on its smartphones.

Last week, Palm showed off its Plug-in Developer Kit for its WebOS operating system that will enable game developers to easily port games that are made for other smartphones such as the iPhone and move them over to the Palm smartphone platform.

Joe Hayashi, vice president of platform and tools at Palm, said that there are lots of games already among the 2,000 or so apps on the Palm Pixi and Pre phones. That’s far short of the 150,000 plus apps on the iPhone, but Palm’s app store didn’t really open until January. So far, more than 20 games have taken Read More...